European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 28, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 18 the stars and stripes monday april 28, 1986columns How about Ben for first dog by Andy Rooney Ronald Reagan is president of the United states and lint Eastwood has been elected mayor of Carmel Calif. Having people in Public office who made their Nam doing something else is fairly new but you can under stand How it happens. Anyone who s been seen a lot on television or in the movies has a head Start in getting votes. Jack Kemp the former pro quarterback would t have gotten where he is so quickly if he d started from scratch As a politician and Bill Bradley would t be the senator from new Jersey if he had been a great basketball player. More famous people Are going to Start running for office in the future i suppose. I was trying to think of some actors past and present who might have made i big in politics if they had tried. John Wayne would seem to have had All the qualities of Ronald Reagan and might have made the same kind of president. At the very least he could have been Ageorgia sheriff. Even the president would probably say the Duke was a better actor than he was. Ralph Bellamy could have run for any office an looked the part if he d won. I can imagine him As a senator head of the Fri or president. I Don t know Why Paul Newman has t run for presi Dent. He has everything looks intelligence and his own salad dressing. Probably it s because he likes who he is better than he d like getting to be who he d have to be As president. Newman though would give George Bush a real run for his Campaign Money but he would probably be embarrassed to find that a lot of people who voted for Ronald Reagan would also vote for him. Jimmy Stewart shares Reagan s conservative Politi Cal philosophy maybe even More so. He d have been a Winner no matter what his politics were. If anyone seems to be that Nice a Guy who cares what kind of a Guy he is Cary Grant would have been another potential win Ner in politics. He does t seem very political but is there anyone alive who d vote against Cary Grant i m looking for a serious woman vice presidential candidate among the actresses but i Don t see one. Jane Fonda comes to mind but while a lot of people like her too Many people hate her. Katharine Hepburn would have made a great running mate for Jimmy Stewart afew years Back. Do you really think Richard Nixon and Spiro t. Agnew would Ever have been elected running against a Stewart Hepburn ticket if we re Ever going to have a Black candidate for High office someone ought to be thinking of Bill Cosby for vice president before he cools off. From the looks of the ratings for his Abc television show even the Kkt must be watching him and liking what they see. If actors Are going to get into politics sooner or late politicians Are going to turn the tables and Start using their Fame in show Biz. There Are a lot of politicians ican imagine As film or television stars. Tip o Neill and Barry Goldwater could Star in remake of the Odd Henry Kissinger might be a character actor. I see him playing the part of a German a boat command Erin world War ii. Teddy Kennedy could certainly get a Job in the mov ies with All his hair and so could Pat Moynihan. George Shultz our Secretary of state would be perfect playing the part of a very Rich powerful businessman. You hear about the possibility of some of these Tele vision ministers running for the presidency in 1988. They can talk for hours without saying anything an they say it very Well but i Haven t seen one who has a Chance. They re always asking for Money and voters Don t like that. Rich Little might have a Chance of being s a phenomenally Good Impersonator. He d have to hire one of those experts who advise candidates on How they ought to act to get elected. All Rich Little Wouldhave to do is act that Way. C Tribune Media services grammar As important As spelling by James Kilpatrick not Long ago i ventured a few observations on the importance of accurate spelling. Most of the resulting mail was supportive but a professor of English in Iowa wrote that you and your fellow perfectionists Are the worst thing that Ever happened to creative that was t much of a sentence for a professor of English but let it go. The gentleman s Contention is that entirely too much emphasis is placed on spelling and grammar at the expense of the free flow of ideas. Maybe this is True at the level of the second Grade though i doubt it but any writer who has t mastered these fundamental Sis in trouble. Today s theme is that Good grammar is As important Asgood spelling. Have a few horrid examples from Seattle in a photo caption about Virginia my Martin charges were dropped against she and four from Portland Maine in a columnist s reminiscence of House to House begging on Boxer s Day this practice was recalled in my Home town by the ritual of we Youn Bucks having the right to go door to door and to be presented at each Portal with a rather Large Glass of from North Carolina in a Story about revocation of dentist s License the dentist will be allowed to continue practising during the probationary period under the terms of a consent agreement Between he and the from a weekly in South Carolina each person whether you like he or she or not is a human from Oregon in a first person piece about Christmas i was 8 years old when my father died unexpectedly leaving no life insurance or Means of support for my Mother and from an editorial in a Small daily paper in North Caro Lina who can even imagine someone entering the Home of a 51-year-old woman raping both she and her 9-year-old Niece and leaving the woman dead in Alabama a state trooper said of he and his wife that they were proud parents. In Georgia a baseball player was pulled from a fight that erupted Between he and Pitts Burgh Pitcher Rick Rhoden. In a fashion Story from de troit there is a Fine array for she who craves grown up in Pennsylvania a winning Field goal by ton Franklin caused he and Holder Ron Jaworski to leap into the air. The Washington Post quotes the president of the Amer ican federation of teachers if a person has been teach ing for 20 years and they Are illiterate then they ought notto be right on Bell Telephone of Pennsylvania promotes its "976" announcement service each sponsor creates their own in grand Junction colo., a restaurant urges visitors to join the thousands whom have eaten Here and in the usually Well edited pages of Usa today neither Casey nor Carlin a career postal official were available for is my Point sufficiently demonstrated we wince teach of these blunders and the wincing distracts our at Tention and derails our train of thought. 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