European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 19, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 6 the stars and stripes sunday May 19, 194, this should suit to viewers to a by Dick West Washington up most people think of Jack Benny Only As a comedian and concert violinist not realizing he is also an ardent social reformer. I did t realize that either until Benny came Here this week for a series of recitals atthe Shoreham hotel. During a press luncheon he advocated asocial Reform that caused me to jump up and shake his came out in favor of realism in laugh tracks which surely ranks with honesty in advertising and truth in lending Samong the most needed reforms. Laugh tracks As if you did know Are pre recorded titters giggles and guffaws that Are spliced onto taped television done with verisimilitude that is if the laugh track matches what is happening on the show there is no quarrel with the practice. But you have Only to watch one of the so called situation comedies to recognize that mis mating is Rife and that liberties Are being taken to the detriment of the viewers. Laugh track synchronizer Are constantly dubbing in cackles after jokes that clearly Call for chuckles or As is often the Case dead silence. Their worst Offe Seis inflation. When a show is slipping in the ratings the usual remedy is to juice up the laugh track. Lam Little jests that Merit a snicker at Best Are bolstered with full scale boffo. I Don t know of anything More disconcerting than to find myself barely sniggering when my to set is rocking with merriment. Makes me think i m a hopeless Square. Benny As i was saying under stands this. Long experience per forming before live audiences has taught him to evaluate the mirth provoking qualities of an Given witticism. He said that when he us scanned laughter on a television show he personally selects the hilarity category to prevent a knee Slapper from being represented As a Side is Lucr no vice versa. And once Benny said when he was aping a show with living ia2 Ter he broke everybody up a gag that he regarded As me chuckle material. E fearing the overkill might alienate Home viewers he snipped out the authentic Bel laugh and dubbed in a More re strained response. It was an open and shut Cas of laugh track heresy and May explain Why Benny no longer Hasa regular program. In a Breeze mrs. Nelson Rocke Feller and mrs. Lyndon Johnson look Ripe for a trip to the hairdressers As Hudson River breezes Deal a blow to their hair Dos. The two first ladies Are on a two Day discover America tour. A lady Bird dedicates . Museum new York a b. Johnson dedicated the unfinished american museum of immigration Friday As she set out on a two Day tour of the Hudson Valley to encourage americans to see americ first. The museum at the base of the statue of Liberty in new York Harbor won t be finished for two years but the first lad said it already symbolizes the epic Story of have been to the statue of Liberty Many times but i can never come Here without a lift of spirits or a catch in my Throat mrs. Johnson said. We Are All immigrants she said except the indians who roamed the Plains for centuries before we Ever came. The immigration to America began prophetically when an English Man and an irishman and a jew signed on to sail with Christo Pher Columbus. Here in this museum Al americans can better under stand the epic Story of immigration mrs. Johnson said. The tour of the Hudson often described As one of the nation most Beautiful Rivers is part of a discover America trip pro Gram. During the two Day boat ride mrs. Johnson was to slowly sail past Manhattan s Skyline an the Palisades of new Jersey ending up in Tarrytown with candlelight tour of an Adams style mansion called Boscobel. Nader backed on negro a Ray claim Washington a _ a Public health service pcs official said Friday that some technicians May be giving stronger a Ray doses to negroes in the belief that this is Neces sary because of physical differences from Ralph Nader told a Senate committee wednesday that Many a Ray technicians routinely give negroes 25 to 50per cent More radiation expo sure than they give White per sons. He said 72 out of 90 a Ray operators in a California metro Politan area said they did so be cause negroes have Darker skin harder and denser Bones and harder . Raymond Moore Deputy director of the National Cente for radiological health said we have no conclusive scientific evidence to justify such prac but he said in an interview that some anthropologists have maintained that negroes have denser Bones than Whites. He said the findings Are inconclusive and that a forthcoming pcs study May provide some new evidence. Number of factors officials said that Bone density and size is one of a number of factors which a Ray operators must take into account in deter mining the level of dosage to obtain a Good said his Agency has no evidence to prove that technicians give stronger doses to negroes but he said hat because this is recommended in at least one fairly Standard text Book there May be some to h an for the Amer skirt Check finds 50 girls a bit Short Houston Tex. A fifty girls at Jesse h. Jones High school have been suspended because the school said their skirts were too Mills Jones principal said the suspensions were a Las resort to convince girls that the school s policy on skirt length must be met. I made an announcement wednesday that skirt length would be checked thursday an those who failed to meet the regulation would be sent Home Mills said. Actually no girl was sus Pended unless the skirt was four inches above the Bend of the knee he added. That s mighty said his past policy was to Send a girl Home to change when the skirt was too High. But they seemed to enjoy taking about two to three hours to go Home and change he said. Million loan time will Aid ailing Post new York up time,inc., has agreed to lend ailing Curtis publishing co. Of Phi Ladelphia $5 million and will take Over a substantial part of the surplus circulation of the saturday evening Post it was announced jointly Friday. The Post subscribers takeover by time inc., will receive the picture Magazine life As replacement for the Post although they will have the option of Cash refunds. Martin s. Ackerman new president of Curtis has announced that Post circulation will be Cut deliberately in August from 6.5 million to about3.5 million. Under a plan approved by directors of both time inc., and Curtis time also will give Curtis a substantial amount of printing business for us plants to replace the work on the Post. Time inc., is not expected to take Over All the Post circulation that is Cut off. Curtis is reported to be arranging Sale of parts of the circulation to other magazines. Ackerman is slash ing the subscription Sale which accounts for All but 400,000 of the Post s circulation because the Post has not been Able Roget sufficient advertising. Thus the More copies the Magazine sold the More Money it lost. Time inc., also has agreed to patronize Curtis newsstand distribution facilities and other Curtis circulation subsidiaries. Time directors approved the arrangements wednesday and the Curtis Board Friday morn ing. Final word on the Curtis agreement was Given to time inti afternoon Friday. A time inc. Spokesman said the printing to be contracted to Curtis could involve printing parts of life printing books or printing promotional literature since Curtis has the facilities for Quality printing in All three said thursday plans have been completed to streamline the Post and enliven its Content and format at circulation Between three Mil lion and 3.5 million starting Ina gust. He also announced that Curtis is considering bids fro several paper companies for its Johnsonburg pa., paper has piled up huge cumulative losses in its Effort to save the Post Over the past decade. The Magazine was Goldmine in the heyday of popular Slick Magazine fiction but suffered a decline through Competition of paperbacks an television. It was considered Likely that the move would put life ahead of look in their continuing circulation Battle. Look claims the larger circulation. 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