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The Army, Navy and Air Force cooperated with author Cornelius Ryan during the
past three years to help him find WWII veterans of D-Day, June 6, 1944. Now
Ryanfs book, "The Longest Day", a dramatic account of the events of that hist
oric date on both the Allied and German sides is on the stands as a best-seller
with critics calling it "the finest account yet written." Its appendix, incid
entally, lists more than a 1,000 D-Day veterans and tells what they are doing
today,
Movieville.,. • They1 re calling John Wayne Ts multi-million "The Alamo" the most
expensive "home movie" ever made, Here*s why....Wayne produced it, directed it,
starred in it, Ass*t Producer: Michael Wayne, Also co-starred: son Pat Wayne,
Featured players: daughters Aissa Wayne and Toni Wayne Lacava; also wife Pilar
iVayne.
"Battle of the Coral Sea," which was filmed with Department of Defense and
'Javy cooperation, is making the rounds,,,,Cliff Robertson and Gia Scala top the
| cast. The Air Force will distribute a 15-minute documentary, "Flying Actors,"
About the airmen in Japan who took part in the filming of "The Last Voyage",,*,
bhat!s the thriller about an ocean liner blowing up for which Andrew and Virg
inia Stone used the old lie de France, Another AF item,,,• • at Vandenberg AFB,
Calif,, they don*t serve duck to A/3C John M. Leslie Jr,,,0.before enlisting he
was an animator at Walt Disney*s Burbank studio.,.0drew Donald Duck, he says,
thousands upon thousands of times.
Theater notes,...the new comedy "Roman Candle" by Sidney Sheldon kids missile
stuff and interservice rivalary in the Pentagon, with Robert Sterling and La
ger Stevens starred. And more about""The Andersonville Trial," George Scottex
narine who plays the judge advocate served with the honorary color guard and
burial detail at Arlington National Cemetery for almost three years...."If ever
an actor was prepared for a role," says Scott, "that actor was me. I was only a
boy in my teens and the war had just ended, but the lost dreams and hopes re
presented by each burial in that cemetery were as real at the end as they had
been in the beginning."
Seattle, Wash® Jan 28s Miss Carol Holes, 20, of New York, America's old lady of
the ice turned in a perfect score Thursday in school figures to all but clinch
her fourth consecutive National Figure Skating crown®The fudges gave Miss Heiss
five points which is a perfect score® All judges rated her first among the four
contestants in the senior ladies event for all six required figures® Fifteen
year-old Laurence Owen and Barbara Ann Roles, 18, was tied for second® The sch
ool figure scoring was not final but counts 60$ toward the total score® The re
maining 40 percent will come from the free skating®
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Hollywood, Fla®: Rocky Marciano Thursday shot a 49 against heavyweight champ
Ingemar Johansson to win five of the nine holes of golf they played as a spec
ial exhibition in the Hollywood Sport Festival® Marciano, former heavyweight
champ, outdrive his youner adversary but found trouble on the tricky greens of
the Diplomat Country Club® Johansson said he had not played golf since last
September® He just didn't have the game to keep up with his opponent who plays
daily. His round was 57#
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