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John Amos Kg Returning To Television
Dy jesse η. wauter
Special To The Poet
John Amos, formerly the
father on "Good Times" and
the adult Κ un ta Kinte in
"Roots", is returning to TV in
a plot for a possible series, a
political comedy project
called "The Washington
Story." He'll be the star and
you can bet there'll be no J.J.
in this one.
The Interaatinal Telephone
4 Telegraph Corp. is ipmiting
<85,000 per episode of "Big
Blue Marble", it's award win
ning children's TV sbow that
this year will feature such
guest stars as Jack Gilford,
Pele, M el be Moore and Tracy
Austin. That's a Μ of loot,
considering ITT does not per
mit a station to interrupt any
part of the half-hour episode
for commercials and the show
is presented free to stations.
Ruffin A. Chaney, an
equipment operator in Con
Edison's Manhattan Steam
Department has an unusual
hobby: he builds entire cities
out of matchs ticks. He's been
doing it since he was 12, and
year, using approximately
50,000 to 60,000 matches, be
does other matchs tick sculp
ture and won a blue ribbon for
one, "Starstepe to Heaven", at
an Art and Crafts Fair in
Yonkers.
Contrary to the talk from
Andy Young and John Conyers
about "racism is dead in
America", NBC has on the
planning boards a two-hour
show titled "The Love Song of
Fred and Carrie", which is
brazenly described as "...a
bout a white widow and a
black widower, both in their
50s, who meet and fall in love
and then have to contend with
the reaction of her son and
daughter and his son. Because
of the age of the two princi
pals, they never have to touch
each other-it's a do-able story
about a black-white love
affair, according to Paul Klein
of NBC-TV.
Melba Moore, spokesperson
for "Big Blue Marble", will be
seen in United Artists produc
tion of "Hair" with John Sav
age, Treat Williams, Beverly
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Dacus, Dorsey Wright and
Suzette Charles, Its' due for
release within the next 12
months.
The Harlem Institute of Fas
hion held a Seminar, Satur
day, Oct. 14 at the Harlem
State Office Building the day
before its annual awards din
ner at the New York Hilton.
Lecturer demonstrators in
cluded Johnetta S Larks, De
signer, Los Angeles, Ca., Sal
lie M Williams, HIF Teacher
in-Charge, and Leona M. Jac
obs-White, Master Dyer from
Oakland, Ca. Cooperating in
the seminar were the Black
Fashion Museum, the Natio
nal Association of Milliners,
Dress Designers and Tailors,
and its Couture Council.
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Bill Ellis, President of Inter
space Personnel, has Joined
Fashion World Dally as a
fourth member of the corpora
tion, according to Editor-Pub
lisher Dalman Jamea. He'll
assume tttfea of Vice Presi
dent of Advertising, Market
ing and Sales.
"Hot Dishes," that musical
by Maurice Peterson that
Woodie King, Jr.'s New Fede
ral Theatre is presenting, Oct
19 through 29, is a madcap
musical fable ci a sintfina TV
gossip columnist who falls
insanely in love with the may
or of Washington, D.C. Ernes
tine Jackson is starring at the
Henry Street Playhouse.
The FCC, nixing the idea of
affirmative action plans, has
unveiled a program requiring
cable TV systems to establish
equal employment opportun
ity plans. The agency wants
systems to develop their own
methods of seeing that minor
ities are given an equal shot at
job vacancies and promotions,
and to com muni rate those
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spective workers.
Standard Brands, Inc. Con
fectionary .Division reported
before the World Series that
sales of the Reggie bar are
slixhtlv ahead of the sales
forcast the company had
set So you can assume that
they're booming since a com
pany official said "everytime
he (Jackson) doe· something,
it rote off on the bar, either in
sale· or rtisrnsrtnn " Reggie
bar dtshihaHow is being ex
panded to the Middle Atlantic,
and New F^gtanri States. It
has been selling in five major
markets, trtdng New York
and Chicago.
Cathy Chance, of the Metro
politan Museum's Urban
Affairs Department has just
returned from a museum
sponsored trip to the Far East,
inrhxttng China where she
was guest in Peking of Lady
Sarah Lou Carter, the wife of
the Guyanan ambassador.
Lady Carter says that city is
becomine the new latest "in"
spot to visit around the globe.
Harlem's famed Boys of
Yesteryear are holding their
annual dance for the benefit of
their scholarship fund on Dec
ember 10 at the Holiday Inn on
57 th Street. Hooorees this year
popular Harlem physic
ian, Dr. Samuel Brisbane and
Terrie Bush, President of the
Continentals.
Gambling casinos have
brought only bad luck to half
of Atlanta City's residents,
the National Council of
Churches was told by com
munity représentatives. They
have «η·*Η a hMirine mmt.
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géncy and economic problems
for Hispanic, Black and senior
citizens who make up half of
the city's 41,000 population.
Norma Quarles, a former
morning reporter-anchor at
WNBC-Ί V New York has been
named a Chicago-based NBC
News correspondent.
"Dota' It," a Dance Theatre
of Harlem revue, is due to
open in November with a
Coast tour and premiere in
February at the N.Y. City
Center. It had a brief break
ing-in stand in Philadelphia
where it drew favorable re
views and did healthy busi
When Citizens Talk,
CAROLYN MATHIS
Listens!
Vote Nov. 7
For
Senator
CAROLYN
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