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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 30, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 12 the stars and stripes saturday september 30,1989 talk show Host King says 3rd marriage sure Winner 7 from ire services talk show Host Larry King is about to be married for the third time but he does t consider himself a two time loser the losers Are those who marry Only once he says. We Are shocked when people marry Sev eral times but if society would admit it the truth is that Many Cou Ples who be been married 50 year probably met other people and were afraid to move on writes King 55, Inthis weekend s Issue of Usa weekend. King is confident his marriage to thence divorced Julie Alexander 41, who runs a lawyer recruitment firm in Phil Adelphia will last. This will be the first Lime i m walk ing Down the aisle with not Only some one i love but also someone i adore an who is my Friend he said. King said his first marriage in 1961was just to have children and he and wife alone never understood each other. He said his second in 1976, ended because he and wife Sharon competed for attention. Larry King and when he called the City for information they could t believe his name was Corvallis. The Racys spent time happily visit ing several landmarks and shaking hands with City manager Gerald seals. Told there s also a Corvallis mont., Ramey just smiled. This is the one i was named after he said. Thai s the Only one i care  actor Sweet on Liz actor Mark Harmon made no secret of his admiration for Elizabeth Taylor during filming of a television version of Tennessee Williams Sweet Bird of  i m a tremendous fan of hers and i told her that right from the  Harmon said. I think she was having fun too. I think she s always wanted to play Alex Andra Del Lago a fading movie Queen who Hooks up with a Gigolo played by Harmon. A 1962 film version of the play starred Paul Newman and Ger Ald Nepage. An actor s goal should be to reach a level where you can work with the great people and say the great words said Harmon 38, who claims he has accomplished this with his role in the to drama. Polar Debernardi left and Jeffrey Potkovich relax after their feat. Niagara feat first Fine second Corvallis goes Home free railway steaks Corvallis met Corvallis. And he liked what he saw. Corvallis Ramey 54, of Chester Field county va., and his wife Ger Trude drove 3,300 Miles in their to bile Home to visit his namesake Corvallis Ore. Ramey said his father vennels picked his name after spending hours looking at maps for a name he had t heard of. And a place on a map that there weren t two  Ramey said he and his wife talked about the trip for More than 30 years locomotive shop workers for Cox corp. In Huntington w.va., had a Steak in the company s Success. The 650 employees at the Hunting ton works enjoyed Steak dinners this week to celebrate a 90-Day, no problem run by the first locomotive rebuilt at the shop. General Plant manager Don Tutko promised he workers a Steak dinner when a rebuilt locomotive ran 90 Days without a failure. The first one out of the shop did just that and the Steak was served. Canadians Peter do Barnnrd and Jef Frey Petkovich became the 11 the and 12th people to go Over Niagara Falls in a barrel but probably the first to do it for their reason. The duo the Only ones to go Over in tandem told authorities after completing the feat wednesday that they did it to show kids there is an alternative to drugs. They survived the voyage with minor cuts and no serious injuries. Were we scared Petkovich 25, said. What for there s no doubt that i d do it again. No  do Bornardi 42, was More reserved. It s something i always wanted to do. It s a Challenge. It s the greatest stunt in the world and i m glad to be  authorities however were not impressed by the pair s stated motivation of helping kids get off drugs. If you can make that connection you be got a better imagination than me retorted Dennis Schafer general manager of the Niagara Parks commis Sion. He said the two were charged with unlawfully performing a stunt in the Park which carries a Fine of $500. Do Bornardi also faces an additional $ 1,000 Fine for trespassing after he was warned 18 months ago not to perform the stunt. Overall 12 adventurers have gone Over the Falls in a barrel. Nine Nav survived the 176-foot plunge. Five men have gone Over the Falls in the 1980s, a record for one decade. The stunt has been performed for different reasons since Annie Edson Taylor became the first to survive the fall on oct. 24, 1901. Some like Karel Soucek of Canada who went Over the Falls in 1984 and proclaimed himself the last of the Niagara daredevils and Steven Trotter who went Over the following year look the plunge in a attempt to bolster their careers As stunt men. Stars and stripes bookstores stars and stripes bookstores George Stark did t want to die Thad Beaumont was a serious writer. A few years ago he won the pulitzer prize. Then he invented a George Stark. At first Stark was just a bit of fun a pseudonym under which Thad Beaumont q secretly wrote a violent racy thriller. The thriller was a big Success so Beaumont Stark wrote another. And another until Stark was earning a Good Deal More Money than Beaumont and Beaumont a was finding it hard to write anything at All. 3j so when a sly Little character discovered that Beaumont and Stark were one and the same person and tried to blackmail him far from giving in he was quite Happy relieved even to come clean about the mystery and announced that George Stark would write no More. He even buried him with a specially made Headstone for a photo feature in people Magazine. Which was All very funny and a Happy ending to a lucrative period of his life. Except for one thing. George Stark did t want to die. In fact he refused to die. George Stark came Back looking for people who had conspired to kill him. And Stark like his books was very violent. Stephen King s the dark half is available at most bookstores m / 8o 3 3 m o and stripes bookstores stars and stripes bookstores  
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