European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 3, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 16 the stars and stripes faces a no places sunday january 3,1993 a Quot Mem a Center t chilling out Ken Jones wearing a fur Cap soaks up some Vinter Sun at new York s Coney Island while other members of the Arctic ice bears take 0 dip in the water temperatures Felt to 38 degrees on new year s Day about 20 degrees Tower then the previous Day but it ddn t Stop the organization whose members swim in the icy Waters each new year s Day from celebrating its 150th anniversary. Actor quits As from wire reports citing bad publicity from his recent arrest on drug charges actor Todd Bridges resigned As head of a youth Center he founded. Bridges 27, told about 20 people at the cent Jer in Compton calif., on thursday that he was leaving because he did no to want the Center to suffer. A when things happen people tend to shy away a said Bridges. He maintained that he was clean and sober now despite his history of drug abuse. A everyone knows the Battle in be been fighting All of my life and More and More people arc fighting a he said. The former child Star of tvs disc rent strokes founded the Todd Bridges youth foundation two years ago in Compton a City about 10 Miles Southeast of downtown los Angeles. He did so after he was acquitted in 1989 in the shooting of a drug dealer in a crack cocaine House. Bridges was arrested tuesday while driving in Burbank. Officers found methamphetamine or Speed and a loaded handgun in his car said police sgt. Don Goldberg. Lie was released from jail wednesday on $10,000 bail. Bridges said he was using someone else s car and did no to know what was in it. Simon Brickell become parents Singer songwriter Paul Simon and his wife Singer Edie Brickell Are parents of their first child a boy. A a in a finally a grandpa a Edies father Eddie told the Dallas morning news. A i thought i never was oing to have a the Happy Grandfather Ives in Mesquite near Dallas. The couples child born monday in new York City is named Adrian Edward Simon. He weighed in at 7 pounds 2 ounces. A his Mother former Lead Singer for the new bohemians and Simon were married last Spring at Simon a Home in Montauk . Its the first child for Brickell and the second for Simona a Dinkins set for Broadway y new York mayor David n. Dinkins will appear under a different spotlight when he makes a guest appearance in the Bro away musical the will Rogers follies. Dinkins will play flier Wiley Post the script amp los for the mayor wearing an Eye Patch to sit in an upper Mezzanine at the Palace theatre and say the line Quot lets go flying. Will five times. Rogers the Oklahoma born humorist and actor and Post died together in a plane crash in 1935. Over Gays dear Abby. All the negative hype about Gays in the military is nonsense. Alexander the great was Gay. Julius Caesar was Gay. Legendary greek warriors were Gay. And Gays have died on All the battlefields of americans wars. Straight men have been showering and going to the bathroom beside Gay men All their lives. I be worked in the theater for 40 years. Heterosexual actors work beside and change clothes beside Gay actors. Straight stagehands use the same restrooms As Gay men. There has never been a problem. Of course the theater was racially integrated Long before the nation s churches schools and military institutions. It has always judged people by their character and Talent rather than by the superficial. Furthermore if Gays Are not asked to state their sexual orientation they will most Likely keep it to themselves and reveal themselves Only to those who Are Likely to be sympathetic. The Legal admission of Gays into the . Military will be As easy or As difficult As Gen. Colin l. Powell and the joint chiefs of staff want it to be. In a signing my dear Abby be Chi name but if you use this sign it a a Gay Veteran in new York City dear Veteran i think you Are probably right. Because so Many Gays Are still in the closet there Are no reliable statistics on How Many Gays Are serving honorable in the military but a fairly Good estimate would be 10 percent. Dear Abby i have a suggestion for Quot cheated in Memphis a the Tittle boy who was born on dec. 25. \ Many years ago a famous writer i believe it was Robert Louis Stevenson gave his birthday to a Little girl who had been bom on Christmas Day. I remember the publicity when that Quot Little girl Quot who had grown up and reached a venerable age que thed the famous authors birthday to another ild whose birthday was on dec. 25. I have had so Many birthdays that i feel 1 no longer need one. Although i am not a famous writer and my birthday is not in june or july i will happily give my Ann Landers dear Ann Landers in be been Reading your column for years but never Felt the need to write until i read the letter from the Tennessee woman who was no longer interested in sex. Soon after her letter appeared another woman wrote and expressed Relief that her husband had a quit bothering her in bed. I nearly heard myself say out loud a lady Send him to me. Id give anything to be a bothered like a 1 am 70 and have two male friends one in Colorado age 72, another in Oregon age 69.1 lament the fact that both men though attractive interesting and successful Are impotent. Unfortunately they become defensive instead of acknowledging it and seeking help. These men had Long Happy _ marriages As 1 did. I would love a to find a Man who could be a husband to me physically As Well As emotionally and wonder if anything can be done about these two. Thanks Ann. I will always be your no. 1 fan. Languishing in Virginia Dearva we spoke with or. Irwin Goldstein professor of urology at Boston University school of Medicine. He said about 30 million american men Between 40 and 70 suffer from impotence. After the physical aspects of impotency Are treated the psychological problems must be addressed. There Are four available therapies to treat impotence medication vacuum devices bypass surgery and penile implants. Medication involves injecting the Penis with a drug just before Intercourse. It has an .80 percent Overall Success rate and is not hazardous when performed after thorough training. Or. William Fitch of the impotence information Center in Minnesota informed us about the vacuum pump device which is completely external and works for most Mph. It costs about $300 and lasts indefinitely. The bypass is a surgical procedure Best for men under 40 whose impotence is caused by injury to the artery. The Success rate is about 70 percent to 75 percent. Implants Are 90 percent successful but involve inva save surgery and Are recommended Only when All other therapies fail. If the two gentlemen Are not interested in any of the above i Hope you realize that there can be a great Deal of satisfaction in holding caressing and just touching. There actually a name for this. It is called letter to Ann Lander should be addressed to her a . Box 11562, Chicago Iii. 606114562 c Critor Syndicate. Jan. 27 birthday to a cheated in Memphis. Mrs. . Upjohn dear mrs. Upjohn. What a generous a and charming a lady you Are. Unfortunately a cheated in Memphis did no to sign his or her name but if he or she is a daily dear Abby Reader your offer will have been officially extended. Dear Abby when someone says. A a in la meet you next Friday a would you take it to mean this Friday or the Friday in the next week told my husband that we had plans for next Friday. What i meant was not this Friday out next Friday. He says in a wrong a next Friday Means the closest following Friday please Settle this. A what a next in Yakima dear what a next your husband is right. I would have assumed you meant the upcoming Friday a or the next Friday you encounter. What you consider to be a next Quot Friday would be better described As a Friday after next a or a a week from this Friday Quot. A letter Lor thl column should be addressed to dear Abby at to. To mount Morris Iii 61054. C Universal press Syndicate a
