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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 17, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 12 the stars and stripes monday March 17, 1986 Beefy guest made big impress on from press dispatches the world s heaviest Man slept on Beer crates and ate meals with enough food for four people during his week Long visit to Japan said an official from the television station that promoted his trip. Albert Pernitsch of Graz Austria weighs 875 pounds making him the heaviest Man in the world according to the guinness Book of world records. He flew to Japan on March 6 to appear in a television show and stayed until last thursday said Shinji Ariyoshi of Fuji television network inc. Pernitsch 29, travelled on a specially prepared Japan air lines Jet sitting on two seats and a table and bottled up anxiety a photo or. Douglas Dixon assistant medical examiner in Suffolk county mass., looks wary As he performs his bottle balancing trick. The stunt earned him a spot on the David Letterman  Dixon Hopes it will pay off with an advertising stint. Stretching his legs across space made available by re moving several other seats Ariyoshi said. A makeshift bed was created for him at a Tokyo hotel by placing a mattress on top of 15 Beer crates. He said the show which was to be aired sunday in Japan featured world record holders including the Man billed by guinness As the world s tallest 8-foot-1 Gabriel Montane of Mozambique. Of in t right platters say the platters a popular singing group in the 1950s and 1960s, have filed a lawsuit in . District court in Seattle charging the skipper s seafood restaurant Chain with trademark infringement. The lawsuit filed thursday claims the Chain used a platters film clip from an old Dick Clark television show on one of its commercials without permission. The group wants the court to forbid skipper s from using the film clip and seeks damages. Doug Bamford vice president of Skippers said he was surprised and confused by the suit. Skipper s did pay Normal advertising residuals through our and Agency to agents who claimed to represent All the original platters. We did what we thought we were supposed to do. We re a Little perplexed he said. The commercial was on the air for three weeks last fall before the restaurant company received a complaint from the singing group and cancelled it. The platters formed in 1954, recorded such hits As the great pretender and  Brainy boy at 18 months Nicki Joka in Essen Germany recited the alphabet backwards. At 2 he read fluently. At 3 he was studying his doctor father s biology textbooks and now at 7, according to his Mother he could be consulted about what car to buy the Cologne express newspaper said. The paper said the infant Prodigy has an intelligence quotient of 145, 45 Points above average and regularly floors his Mother with scientific brain teasers. It seems there is nothing he can t do his Mother Ursula said. But she said emotionally the child remains a typical 7-year old. He likes to play but always systematically she said. Lyrics close classroom door an 11-year-old country Singer has been told by her Baptist preacher that she can t attend his school in Texas City Texas if she continues to sing about Bro Ken hearts and part time lovers. You say you love me. I know it in t True. You Only want me to share a bed with you go the lyrics to a Mother and child a photo Emily Singer of Boston holds 9-month-old Stephen Debesse of Milton mass., after the infant was chosen to portray the Christ child in a passion play at St. Kevin s school in Boston. Singer will play the role of the Virgin Mary. Country lament Sung by Debra Fowler. Her parents said the lyrics caught the attention of the Rev. Tom Campbell who told them their daughter could not attend the Trinity Baptist Christian school if she continued to sing such songs. Debra began attending classes at Trinity Baptist in Texas City last month. Since last october she has been working in recording sessions on two songs. He told us she could stay if she Sang gospel music Only said Joann Fowler the girl s Mother. He said he preaches against some of the words used in country songs and he could t accept her singing them in  Campbell wanted to ban Debra s Public singing appearances this summer said Clarence Fowler the girl s father and manager. Heck Shell be singing in Mem Phis and Nashville come june he said. The fowlers said they decided their daughter s Ca reer is More important than sixth Grade classes and gospel music at Campbell s school so she began attend ing school last week in nearby Santa be. The girl s Mother concedes that words in travelling Lover a song the girl is recording Are a Little Strong for an 11-year-old. 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