European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 28, 1959, Darmstadt, Hesse Vpege 16 the stars and stripes tuesday july 28 1959 olympic Star Bob Mathias decides to jump at the Chance to act again two time olympic decathlon Champion Bob Mathias left who gave up his acting career because of inactivity Waits with costar Keenan Vynn for the Start of a scene in a new television series filmed in Hollywood. Associated press photo crossword by Eugene Sheffer 21 7 50 5z 31 22. 45 37 34 44 38 48 51 35" 45" 24 of 41 horizontal 1. Public vehicle 4. Tag 7. Yawned 12. North and South 14. Senseless 15. Divides into two parts 16. Ravine 17. Curved molding 18. Equal comb form 20. Luzon / Negrito jul Small child ". 22. Crosses 24. Grow old 26. Female swan27. Blacken 29. Embellish 32. Necessities 33. Metal bolts35, the red 86. Salutation r 37. Large j sea duck39. The Irma 46. Vestige 48. Coast from Nice to la spezia 50.,fall Flower 51. Pointed beards 52. Noxious plants53. Sea Eagle 54. Cares Sive touch vertical . Ambassador to Brazil 2. Spanish Friend 3. Harass 4. Nervous twitch 5. Deed 6. Bass Singer 7. Fish Spear 8. Wild of of celebes 9. Participate in 10. Affianced 42. Silkworm. 44. Storage of Compart ment 7-28 11. River in Scotland 13. Female Ruff 19. Peculiar 22. French Security 23. More. Normal 25. Abstract being 26. Prefix. Before28. The turmeric29. Cons Tel lation30. Different 31. Acted the Glutton 34. Blood relation 35. Upperclassman 38. Funeral hymn 39. Slumber40. North and south41. Leavening agent43. Frosted 45. Hold session46. Game of marbles47. Bitter vetch average time of solution 88 Man. 49. Advance answer to yesterday s Puzzle. H Job offers scarce now by Bob Thomas a plywood a Bob Mathias is going to try for an acting career after months ago the olympic great gave up after waiting for Hollywood to use him As an actor. He took a Job with a construction firm and began a course that would train him in All phases of building. Now he s co starring with Keenan Wynn in a television series called the it s about a pair of adventuring construction workers. But though the series is backed by United artists and sold to a cig Aret firm Bob is coolly holding onto his no acting Job. He s on leave from the firm. Cool attitude Cool is the word for Mathias. That s the Way he trained for and won the decathlon at London 1948 and Helsinki 1952. And that s How he has approached this business of being an actor. It la either happen or it wont he philosophies. Bob never had any great desire to be an actor. After graduating from Stanford he was approached with an idea for a to series. But i had Only six months be fore i was to go into the Marine corps he said. That was t enough time to get a series going. So instead we formed a company and a feature the Bob Mathias Story with my wife and me playing film was a creditable Job if no great moneymaker. Ward Bond had played in it and brought Bob to the attention of his great pal John Wayne. When the athlete got out of the service in 1956, Wayne Sigried him to an exclusive con tract. Cacti t complain but Wayne s company was t making movies. For 1% years Bob played in Only one film China most actors would flip their lids Over such inactivity. Not Bob. Why should i have complained to said. I was collecting a Good salary and i was allowed to do outside such things were seeing the 1956 olympics at Melbourne As presi Dent Eisenhower s personal representative holding sports clinics around the country showing his prowess in foreign lands for the state department representing a sports Magazine. At 28, Bob is still a fabulous figure of a Man. He maintains his 215-Pound olympic weight though he admitted the poundage seems to have slipped Down a Little in Dis he gives an occasional exhibition he can High jump 6 feet but his Only regular exercise now is Tennis. Sure you remember the miss was mrs by Hick do blow Hollywood up Leona age who bluffed her Way tothe title of miss two years ago before she was discovered to be a mrs., is now a settled Houser wife in Moyi Etown. And said the 23-year-old Mary land Beauty whatever i did was Worth it. I d do it again. It took me out of poverty and gave me a Chance to be the sultry Brunet did some to shows and was a Las vegas show girl after she threw the 1957 miss universe contest into an uproar but Fie admitted that the offers Are much More scarce these she spends most of her time doing housework for her new Hus band Nick Covacevich 22, a. Mexican born dancer of yugoslavian descent and she s expecting a married Covacevich after divorcing air Force sgt Gene Ennis her first husband and the father of her two Gage who was born in Longview tex., said that after the contest i appeared on. The Steve Allen show the de Sullivan show playhouse 90, matinee theater and the tightrope1 series. But a lot of the publicity i got worked against me. It was. Publicity All right but not the kind you like. A lot of sponsors were very sensitive and would t hire me. After i appeared on matinee theater they got tons of mail from people who said they d never watch the show again if they had that girl on Gage insisted she did t expect Adverse publicity or any publicity for that matter from her hoax. Leona Gage soft Job tag irks beauties movie review revival appearing at army and air Force Heaters this week the Vikings thundering Story of the Norse sea raiders of the 9th Century. Kirk Douglas Tony Curtis Ernest Borgnine and Janet Leigh Star in a film of High adventure. Color. A Yua new York a what a soft Job. All they have to do is stand on camera look cute and be this is a c o m m e n t that s be ginning to bore four pretty girls at Abc to who Are show offs on the network Sandra Wirth Marian Stafford june Ferguson and Toni Wallace. The girls who show products and prizes while helping contest ants and emcees on quiz and Audi ence participation programs warn Beauty is Fine. But a girl must have Talent too and work at besides standing around each monday through Friday for the visual enjoyment of millions the four spend about 50 hours a week in rehearsals sponsor meetings demonstrations of products and Long sessions with makeup and wardrobe men and beauticians. Warner Bros. Announces $85 million movie schedule Hollywood up Warner Bros has announced plans for 34 movies to Cost $85 million in 1959 60. President Jack l. Warner said the program would emphasize developing new Talent. The film schedule includes the Fri Story look Back in anger and Sunrise at doodles by Roger Price out our Way by Williams cd " i a a Caw t Tell. Which them Milf Flat 0e pork pipe up 7-29 satellite passenger signalling Fob left turn this Doodle was presented Tome by or. Schwine and or. Kit Zenger who refer to the s & laboratories As the Cape canaveral of West 88th right no Schwine and kit Zenger Are plan nigh to launch a manned space vehicle Well it won t be a manned space vehicle. It la be a worn Annex space vehicle because the passenger will be mrs. Schwin who i m sorry to report i could t interview. She was downtown pick ing out a new space helmet and buying some interplanetary postcards. But or. Kit Zenger assured me that mrs s. Will be quite Safe and comfortable in the satellite which is equipped with a Ftp set Abed an say chair a Coffee table and a refrigerator. Personally Idon t think it s advisable to put a woman into orbit with all1 the com forts of Home. What s going to happen when she starts Jrearrang-ht353 or of to few re we p Fem sing the furniture at 25. Xxx Miles g�l3 per hour of
