European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 25, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse Without by Vernon Scott up staff writer what was Amos without Andy Lum minus Abner Vic bereft of Sade nothing. But Cher without Sonny is like wow and or groovy. Cher 21, whose whole name is Cheri Lyn made her first major television appearance without husband Sonny Bono in a video special titled where the girls Long haired Beauty a delicious combination of French and Indian Sang and appeared in sketches and did a number with the show s Host Noel har Rison Rex s kid. How does it feel to work without the husky self assured Sonny at her Side i was scared in the beginning but after a while i began to enjoy myself. I want to do other things than sing. When we taped this show i did some comedy and it was a lot of fun. I can t say i really missed Sonny because after All i be Sung alone be fore. Eventually Sonny wants to write and produce pictures and then maybe someday is Sonny talented at anything other than wearing a Buffalo Vest and sing ing of course. He wrote my next Pic Ture chastity and it s the Best i be Ever read. Hell produce the picture Buthe won t appear in Sonny and Cher became instant Starback in 1964 with their recording i got you their off beat clothes unusual Harmony and Long hair immediately endeared them to youngsters. Now by comparison to the mind blown hippies. Sonny and Cher dress like Wall Street brokers. We re still tolerated by the hippies because we were the first of a Newbreed of despite four years of publicity and Public exposure Little is known about Cher. She is a practical sensible Young lady who is More Beautiful than she photo graphs. In reality she is not really she does t dig things. Her language is Ladylike. She has set he goal on becoming a movie Star. There is no apparent reason Why she should not. She keeps improving. Cher that s her on the left without Sonny is groovy even if she in t considered a hippy any More. In of i recently you printed a slash ing broadside against women who marry alcoholics. You said the vast majority of these women need to be martyrs that they would rather have their husbands drunk than sober because it gives them a Opportunity to be saints. You also stated most women who divorce alcoholics turn right around and marry other Booz ers. For years 1 have been an admirer of your column especially your understanding of alcoholism and your sym Pathy for those who live with it. I wonder if perhaps that particular answer was written while you were out to lunch. It did t sound like the Ann land ers i have been Reading for years. 1 did t know my husband was an alcoholic until after we had been married several months. He was so Clever at concealing his liquor consumption that 1 could write a Book about it. Gin in the Howater bottle which he took to bed at night even during the summer months. Bourbon disguised As cough Medicine. Vodka in the Glove compartment of the car Page 14 c in a cleaning fluid bottle your notion that wives of alcoholics use their husband s drinking As a conversation piece was not the Case withe. I was too ashamed. After eight years of agony my doctor advised me to give my husband a Choice the bottle or me and the kids. He chose the bottle. I divorced him and my life has been a comparative heaven Ever since. Will 1 marry another alcoholic never i refuse a second Dat with any Man who has More than two drinks during an eve Ning. Please print my letter. I feel you owe it to the wives of alcoholics who do not fit you description. Free at last dear free Here s your letter and my apologies to the wives who do not follow the classic pattern. I received dozens of letter lambasting me for my All inclusive attack and i hereby acknowledge that the criticism was justified. A neighbor with whom 1 have been Friendly has a heart of Gold but. She has a slam bang unrefined approach which i find abrasive. For example i have yet to hear her say will you please or i d appreciate it if you would it s always i want you to. Or get me a such and such. I be become accustomed Toher Lack of Grace and i accept it but it s pretty hard to take orders from her children ages10 and 12. They speak just like their Mother. This afternoon her 12-year old son appeared at the door. He said mom says you should give me your vacuum sweeper. Ours i replied i be Happy to lend you my vacuum sweeper but Don t you think it would be Nice if you tacked a please onto that the boy looked at me As if i had two Heads. Do you feel As my husband does that i should not attempt to teach these children Man ners because it is not my bus iness frankly speaking dear fran i m not at All sure you can teach them imitate the Day to Day language they hear. It s Worth a try however so give it awhirl. Copyright 1968, publishers Hall Syndicate the stars and stripes Al editor s note the following k in capt. Davids. Merony in the Leuel reply in part is it not Tolible x Lawless action a charged to the american society s response capt. Merony proves by his torture subsist is " More to assume As he does that criticism of Domina Tely unconcerned about the Pight of solely by America s enemies is to without embarrassing capt. Merony by Calmis any rational person can equate cooperation with or precisely what democratic capitalism 2m f like to know instead by what bizarre process f America can be charged with so Many Virtues a were an entity possessing a will and a purpose of course Lawless action was committed by an input does that necessarily mean that a society i held at least partially accountable a society in Les Ness is condoned whether perpetrated by the i richest element in. That society merits criticism of the lorder. In conclusion i strongly encourage capt. Merony to i in a course in semantics As rapidly As possible. Jeffrey r. My Baum older never should we be satisfied i am not the Type who normally takes to writing letters toll editor but a recent note entitled when will it Stop i prompted me to speak out. When i Pray never. Never Shojii Ever be satisfied or self complacent in the face of injun deceit neglect cruelty and murder. Even if it hurts. Merony s concern was that not All americans were guilty i they can gain some Consolation from the fact that on individual assassinated Robert f. Kennedy. I am sure he i say the same about Medgar Evers John f. Kennedy Luther King the 14 individuals at the base of a University t in Austin the four victims in an Arizona Beauty shop or attest Bank or a recent Oklahoma Highway etc., and Naus i am almost As certain that he would consider the growing tiers of violent deaths in America As a coincidence. With great interest i listened and taped for my classes commentaries of radio Moscow radio Belgrade and eve exaggerated radio Tirana following the assassination to amusement at the time they broadcast the fact that in Amei history More americans had died As a result of private Insall the soldiers in All the wars in our nation s history Tea my Chagrin stars and stripes supported article from up on june 10, guns kill one every half Hythe .," the facts were stated for All to read. Since Stew of the Century about 750,000 people have died in the By warms14 times the number killed in world War i and three the number slain in world War is this a statistic aware to quote with Pride As. If it were an athletic record or Industrial production figure or an Index of consumption. Our lax gun Laws Are anachronistic and illogical recent past is a tragedy which we must All share a or the Burden. And when Are we going to grow up As when Are we going to realize that our precious right san a ties entail a certain amount of responsibilities it is i say he was a jordanian refugee he was a Misir an escaped it is too easy to say that our new downgrade America enough and that we Shou d Noi i piety is afraid of honest criticism or Heartfelt Seii Eor fundamental change if necessary then no claim for superiority. In fact we have no claim 10 or survival. ,-.mto merely say that an individual is guilty is naively Jimj the problem and pretending it does t concern Menau. Nation have tolerated too Many such injustice in the v we continue to do so. We the nation have no maae Effort to Correct the ridiculous abuse of our gun of continue to do so. We the nation in our get Al selves looked for easy excuses and scapegoats to a Sone u the responsibility of these recent deaths. Ana no mentioned above some of us shall continue to of not sound tragically similar to the voices of another a built Dachau and Auschwitz and then later Asteropi blame on a few perverted individuals Ranei recognize their guilty hat the Wilto answer your statement capt. Merony i a a j and beating will never Stop until we have con Tutu. Faults of our society. To quote another persons a ing the responsibility of one Man to his finishes an Island entirely of itself. Any Mals. A fore never Send because i am involved in Mankind know for whom the Bell tolls it tolls Tor met. N not heard capt. Merony it tolls for All of us. Hau pm re go j University of mar a reminder to correspondents Miall Luttera to the editor must contain Falin is l the writer and must be signed. All Corres Puu the the writer s name will be deleted upon Reserve the right to edit and condense letters tuesday 25,1" 1
