With his acting stint in the movie ’’All the Young Men” wrapped up,heavyweight
champ Ingemar Johansson is turning to troop entertainment.....the amiable boxer
is set for two weeks of touring isolated bases in Alaska under USO sponsorship.
Accompanied by his brother Rolf, sparring partner Bill Johnson and his manager,
he*11 give exhibition bouts and demonstrate training techniques,also pay visits
to patients in service hospitals.
People from all over.••.Singer Tommy Sands got his Selective Service greetings.
Col. Robin Olds, husband of actress Ella Raines,may leave his Pentagon assign —
ment to become football boss at the Air' Force Acadeiqy.....•• Jazz stylist Stan
Kenton turned up at Ft. Ord, Calif., for a concert which gave him a chance to
chat with a trio of his admirers, Pvts. Mike Bobrowski, Gill Avila and Darrell
Miller......Movie producer Charles Schneer returned from Europe with a print of
his movie about rocket scientist Wernher von Braun, "I Aim at the Stars”.,., .he
screened it at the Pentagon for top Army leaders. Incidentally, three Army Off
icers, including Maj. Gen. John B.Medaris, now retired, are portrayed by actors
in the film...also back from Europe, where he made the current ’’Once More With
Feeling” is Yul Brynner. .when not acting he studied features of German and Aus
trian prison camps; now Secretary ef State Christian Herter has invited him to
Washington to report his findings as a U.N. representative....Shepherd William
Gaxton and musical comedy star Jack Whiting of the famed theatrical club, ’’The
Lambs”, played host to First Army’s five Soldiers of the Month in New York.....
in Baltimore a Ft. Meade, Md., soldier, PFC Richard Cross, went operatic with
the city’s Civic Opera Company....a professional basso, he took on the role of
Mephistopheles in ”Faust”...Exercise Little Bear, the Army’s mid-winter Alaskan
maneuver, brought two cameramen from 20th Century-Fox to document it in Cinema
scope and color.
TOPS IN POPS.”Teen Angel” by Mark Dinning is the new leader on the ”Bill
board Magazine” Honor Roll, with ’•Running Bear” (Johnny Preston) moving back to
second spot and ”EL Paso” (Marty Robbins) holding on third.The other seven are:
’’Theme From a Summer Place” (Percy Faith); ’’Handy Man” (jimmy Jones); ’’Where or
When” (Dion and the Belmonts); ’’He’ll Have to Go” (Jim Reeves); ”Why” (Frankie
Avalon); ”What in the World’s Come Over You” (jack Scott); and- ’.’Lonely Blue Boy”
(Conway Twittie).
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