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Country and blues singer Crystal Cayle will per
form at Rudder Auditorium Thursday at 8:30 p.m.
This is the first time a summer concert has been
presented at Texas A&M. Crystal Gayle is known
for several hits including “I’ll Get Over You,”
“Don’t It Make My Brown Eyes Blue,” and “Some
body Loves You.“
Could he the worst ever
Fall TV schedule looks grim
United Press International
NEW YORK — Every year tele
vision critics dub the current
schedule the worst ever.
They are almost always right —
and this year will be no exception.
That’s the word from Philip Bur
rell, who puts together a pre-season
analysis of new television shows for
his advertising agency. Dancer
Fitzgerald Sample. The agency’s
clients will invest about a quarter of
a million dollars in television adver
tising in 1979-80.
In analyzing the new schedule,
Burrell & Co. figure ABC will re
main atop the ratings, capturing 32
percent share of the viewing public,
while CBS settles for 30 percent and
NBC for 28 percent.
The statistics indicate the three
networks will come out of next sea
son in the same order they went in
— but perhaps with less space in
between.
To get down to specifics, the ad
agency figures negative prognosis
for 45 percent of the new shows —
three on ABC and four each on CBS
and NBC. Only five shows — 20
percent of the new product — look
good. Time was when the television
industry figured that one-third of
new shows would make it.
The rest of the new entries are
“iffy” at best.
The shows that look like real win
ners include four from dominant
ABC and one from CBS.
They are the “Benson” spinoff
from “Soap,” Lou Gossett in a hos
pital drama called “The Lazarus
Syndrome,” “Hart in San Fran
cisco” with Ron Moody as an offbeat
detective, and law office shenani
gans in “The Associates,” all on
ABC, as well as rehabilitated “Trap
per John” on CBS, this time played
by Pernell Roberts, on CBS.
Among predicted disasters are
three from ABC, and four each from
CBS and NBC.
The ABC shows in this category
include “Out of the Blue,” about an
undercover angel disguised as a
high school chemistry teacher; “A
New Kind of Family” about single
mothers as roommates; and “240
Robert,” a rescue-adventure series
arroll letters
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United Press International
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ligh school ne ■ 1C | the grave and the real name of
enjoys more ^ ; author of “Alice in Wonderland
in actor than* ]“Through the Looking Glass” —
erman. arfes L Dodgson — was all but
how free ® gotten.
said. Thead'( Dodgson, a mathematics don at
ers, and the r j s t Church college of Oxford
blishers, make |j V ersity, led a dull life in some
pects. He stammered and was
first glimiW' d of hearing. Perhaps he gained
Anita Bryantij ease f rom hj s loneliness by writ-
' thousands of letters. Professor
hen has tracked down almost
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Some of the letters are uninterest
ing. Others are attention-getters
since Dodgson delighted in creating
rebuses and double-acrostic verses.
Dodgson liked pretty little girls
and Alice Liddell was a beautiful
child. She was only seven years old
when Dodgson wrote “Alice in
Wonderland.” While Dodgson pur
sued a hobby of photographing
young girls in the nude, he always
had the permission of the children’s
parents and there was no evidence
that he was a child molester or a
dirty old man.
It was believed that Dodgson pre
ferred the company of children be
cause they seemed oblivious to his
physical handicaps and their inno
cence distracted him from the dull
routine of teaching math at Christ
Church College.
There was considerable informa
tion in Dodgson’s letters and in Co
hen’s research to indicate young
Alice Liddell was the great love of
his life.
Alice loved story-telling and
Dodgson obliged her with “Alice in
Wonderland.” While the story was
meant only for Alice’s eyes, others
read it and liked it. So Dodgson
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and marshai onl y 10years ° ldbutgoing ° n i 1 -
Dodgson’s infatuation with Alice
was so intense that her parents
United Press International broke up the relationship and de-
INEW ORLEANS — Singer stroyed his letters to the child,
jtgelbert Humperdinck has been While almost all of the letters in
losen as grand marshal for the the collection were written by
fewe of Endymion parade during Dodgson, Cohen includes some
rdi Gras next February. written to him.
frumpeter Doc Severinsen,
fieduled for his fifth appearance in
group’s 40-float parade, will be
|nored with a special doubloon —
lardi Gras medallion — marking
! anniversary.
|Endymion, one of the first Mardi
krewes to select well-known
Itertainers to appear in its
jrades, will return to the tra-
tkmal route through New Orleans
the Feb 16 parade. Endymion
ats rolled through suburban Ken-
this year due to the New Or-
ns police strike.
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At CBS, the bad news could cen
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and “Young Frankenstein.”
On the NBC list, “Buck Rogers,”
Shirley Jones’ domestic “Shirley”
show, “From Here to Eternity” and
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