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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 27, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 12 the stars and stripes saturday August 27,1988 juices in places  members Boogie on Bock to Philly from press dispatches they Boogie and stomped their Way into the nation s living rooms in the 1950s when american bandstand was filmed in Philadelphia. Now they re Back in the City where it began rehearsing for a reunion. For the first time in 30 years 27 of the original bandstand dancers including Kenny Arlene car Ole Flossie and Jim got together thursday night to rehearse their Steps for a show sept. 4 at Philadelphia a s Penn s Landing. American bandstand with Host Dick Clark mad its network debut on Abc television aug. 5,1957. Band Stander Joe Fusco of South Philadelphia and Lis Braun of the hot foot Agency cooked up the idea of getting the gang together again. They came from Philadelphia new Jersey Manhattan and Houston to Bunny hop gossip and reminisce. Any place there s dancing i la still go said Fusco who was 15 when he joined the show. Bob Horn emceed the show from its inception in1952 until Clark took Over in 1956. Clark moved the show to California in 1964, but the show s fans still remember it As a Philadelphia phenomenon. You can f Eaf principles his 1962 novel the graduate became a smash hit movie evoking the discontent of a generation fed up with materialism. Today however its author Charles Webb finds himself looking for a handout in Williamstown mass. The things he stands for and believes in Are principles he can t live by any longer said Webb s sex wife Fred who has accompanied him through two itinerant decades that has left the couple virtually homeless. Webb 49, says his Abhorrence of material thing sled him to give away two houses during the Good times. He says he is nearly destitute living out of Avan on a few thousand dollars a year. Webb said hard times have driven him and his 48-year-old sex wife out of the Southern California Camp ground where they lived for the past decade to the Massachusetts town where Webb went to College 30 years  novelist whose hero in the graduate Ben Jamin Braddock struck a chord among Young read ers with his postgraduate misery at his parents sub Urban Home has lived until now according to what friends consider impossibly High and even self destructive standards. The couple s tendency to rid themselves of property explains Why they gave their Hollywood House to a real estate agent in the 1960s and a Home to the Massachusetts Audubon society in 1970, when Webb said he Felt the need for getting free of  after the webbs marriage in 1962 in Fred s pos Hometown of Lakeville conn., they sold their wed painting restored Anthony White and Nick Wright of the inter National Fine Art conservation studios in Bris Tol England work at restoring the passage of the hours on Hie ceiling of the state House of representatives Chambers in Harrisburg a. Ding gifts at a Yard Sale Many of them to the guests who had Given them. Nudes Effing cold shoulder nude models Are unfair victims of popular disapproval a Beijing newspaper said this week in an Appeal for an improvement in models social status. The guangming daily said a Survey of nude female models in the Eastern City of banking revealed they Are subject to social scorn and often have difficulty finding boyfriends or husbands. Some complained that even at the Art Institute where they work teachers and students regard them As sexually liberated modern  the newspaper China s leading daily for intellectuals said one Model was arrested and fined $27 after getting into a fight after she was insulted. The report did not mention male models. The women Seldom earn More than $55 a  s about double what a factory worker makes but the models have no medical benefits and often can Tafford a doctor when they catch colds the report said. Few buildings in banking Are heated despite temperatures below freezing in the Winter. Ali getting great treatment Muhammad Ali the Boxer who dubbed himself the greatest is receiving blood cleansing treatments from a doctor he Calls the greatest in the world. The 46-year-old former heavyweight Champion walked into a Hospital in Hilton head Island s.c., throwing jabs in the air minutes after undergoing an eight hour blood treatment to relieve slurred speech and tremors that have plagued him in recent years. The doctor blames Ali s condition on household pesticide poisoning and not blows to the head. I feel like i can fight heavyweight Champ Mike Tyson Ali said in a hoarse voice slightly above a whisper. Ali referred questions to his physician Rajko me Denica an immunologist who specializes in cancer and blood disorders. A underwent plasma heresies during which his plasma was removed and replaced with an artificial product prepared by Medenica. Plasma is the fluid in which other components of the blood circulate in the body. Although Ali has been diagnosed As having Parkinson Nian syndrome possibly brought on by blows to the head during his boxing career Medenica disagrees. Ali Likely will return for treatments every three months or so Medenica said. My goal is to remove the circulating toxins. By the end of the year he should be much better he said when worlds collide overheard in a Manhattan restaurant Between two women one in her 60s, the other in her 20s she looked just like Eleanor Roosevelt wow did you actually know her no i used to see her in the  in the what you know before the movie came on we saw the  was that on Cable or regular to forget it stars and stripes bookstores stars and stripes bookstores tto o the stunning new bestseller by Len deign on author of Berlin game Winter novel of a Berlin family i a who 0 m of triumphs and tragedies theirs is a proud German family with two Strong willed sons Peter and Paul. Born close upon the turn of the Century they enact their age s greatest triumphs and suffer its most heart wrenching tragedies. Winter is the compelling Story of two very different Brothers whose lives change forever with the Rise of Hitler and the madness that overcomes All of Europe. Pursuing conflicting ideals and ambitions Peter and Paul Are both victim and victimized in this chaotic passion charged time. This bold ambitious novel exposes the startling realities of life in Berlin under the nazis. It is a novel that rings powerfully True As a Rich remarkable portrait of Germany in the first half of the twentieth Century the most amazing conjunction of time place and  modern history. Winter is in paperback for $4.95 stars and stripes bookstores stars and stripes bookstores of o m  
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