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Television in review
Television reviewer offers
a toast to Perry Mason series
By Rick Du Brow
UPI Staff Writer
HOLLYWOOD (UPI) - This
being the season of tradition
and toasts and furtive grasps
at unreachable security, here's
a highball to CBS-TV's "Perry
Mason." Old Man River has
nothing on old Perry Mason.
They both keep rolling along.
what would the world Be UKe
without a Mason to unravel the
most complicated mysteries in
an hour each week, and to
show us that heroes still exist?
Every so often I have a wild
dream that the art movie hous
es in Paris show John Wayne
films.
Why is Mason such a pleas
ure and so lasting? wen, ot
course, there is Raymond Burr,
who portrays him. Some men
earn greatness faster than out
ers because of sympathy. Y. A.
Tittle is bald. Raymond Burr is
stout.
But there Is more to explain
why Mason continues to pull his
weight with audiences, why a
shift of broadcasting days didn't
hurt him, why he gives com
parative newcomers like "Dr.
Kildare," and "Hazel" a rough
go in the ratings.
On the surface, one can look
at any given episode, such as
Presnell likes nothing better
than to list accomplishments
By Vernon Scott
UPI Staff Wrltar
HOLLYWOOD (UPI) -Evi
dently movietown has come up
with a superman in tne person
of Harve Presnell.
Unabashedly confident of his
own accomplishments, Presnell
likes nothing better than to
tick off his talents. But before
we get into that, perhaps it
would be best to identify good
old Harve.
He is 6-foot-4. handsome, and
Debbie Reynolds co-star in
"The Unsinkable Molly Brown."
He starred for two years in the
Broadway production of the mu
sical. This is his first movie.
Okay. Now, let Harve speak
up.
I come from really wonder
ful people," he said. "1 was
brought up on a working ranch
near Modesto, (Calif.) where I
learned the most important
thing in the world the value of
Lynda brings
LBJ up to date
on promotion
JOHNSON CITY. Tex. (UPD-
The Commander-in-Chief was
informed Wednesday that the
Navy had promoted one of its
ensigns to a junior grade lieu
tenant.
President Johnson introduced
his future son-in-law to news
men as Bernard Rosebach, a
Navv ensign.
He's a J.G., Daddy." Lynda,
the President's 19-year-old
dauchler exclaimed.
The President registered sur
prise. "Can I tell where he's go
ing?" Johnson said.
"It's a military secret,"
Lynda said.
But the tall officer from Com
fort, Tex., who was graduated
in 12 from Annapolis, told his
future father-in-law he cjuld
make the announcement.
"He's returning to his de
stroyer," the President said,
"and then he's going to Cuba,
to Ouantanamo."
Then a newsman told her the
President indicated she would
transfer.
"Well," she said, "sometimes
he makes a lot of the decisions."
Thursday night's In which a
murder victim was left In a
lion's cage to be mauled and
note the professional polish, the
deft character portrayals, the
sheer fun of a formula mystery
show.
But I think even that is only
part of the answer. "Perry Ma
son" is set in Southern Califor
nia, mostly in Los Angeles. And
from the main actors in the
cast to the producer, Gail Pa
trick Jackson, to the man on
whose stories the series is
based Erie Stanley Gardner
there is a remarkable unity, not
only in attitude, but in a tough
sophistication about the ways
and flavor of Los Angeles.
Tha Channel Swim: Shari
Lewis, who once guided a fine
children's show on NBC-TV,
joins the network's weekend
"Monitor" radio program Jan.
11 . . . Shirley Temple guests
on NBC-TV's "Sing Along with
Mitch" Feb. 3.
"Discovery," ABC's children's
show, visits a restored 19th
Century village Jan. 5 , . . This
week, we said a time change
would pit "discovery" against
NBC-TV's youngsters' program
"Exploring" ... a slip . . .
"Discovery" airs Sunday, "Ex
ploring" Saturday.
hard work.
I learned to prune fruit trees.
break horses, drive a tractor
and build a house. I learned
how to handle stock (cattle). It
gave me confidence and the
feeling there is nothing I can't
do."
Confidence Presnell has In
spades.
In addition to being an all-
around good guy, he also is an
opera singer of no mean talent.
He studied opera at the Univer
sity of Southern cautornla (and
flunked), at the Music Academy
of the West in Santa Barbara,
and in Germany.
Germany is the only place to
learn to sing opera today," he
said without qualification.
Almost every German vil
lage has an opera company and
an opera house. You'll find two
or three American singers in
each company. I learned to
sing in German over tnere."
Harve also warbles in Italian,
French and Spanish. He didn't
say anything about English.
On weekends Harve occupies
himself by building a new house
on four acres of choice real
estate above Beverly Hills. He
rented a bulldozer and blazed
1,000 feet of road on the prop
erty. Presnell. who bears an un
canny resemblance to Howard
Keel, sees no paradox in being
both opera singer and bulldozer
operator.
"There's a rhythm to machin
ery just as there is to music,"
he said in the MGM commis
sary during lunch.
"And using your body tech'
niques is somewhat the same.
There's an art to it It's the
same with breaking a horse or
just plain shoveling. Any kind
of work can be artistic.
Presnell is delighted to be
recreating his role of Leadville
Johnny Brown in the movie
but his primary interest is op
era.
He hopes to return to his
wnere people are more incunea
to take their opera seriously.
But there is nothing that says
he can't become a tremendous
opera star right here in his
own country.
Harve's ranch-boy attitude Is
such that if he sets his mind
to it he could play superman
witnout a stunt man as double.
Just ask him.
History of Greece long, filled
with many glorious chapters
By Georga Androlidaket
UPI Staff Wrltar
ATHENS (UPI) - High on a
mountain in the Peloponessus
section of Greece, emblazoned
in giant letters, is the word
"Oxi" (Ohi) which has personi
fied the spirit and heritage of
the Greeks since the days of
Alexander the Great.
"Oxi" which means "no"
was Greek Premier George
Metaxas' blunt answer to Ital
ian dictator Benito Mussolini s
demand that Greece surrender
or be annihilated. The three
huge letters carved into the
earth are a lasting symbol of
Greece's determination to re
main free.
The history of Greece is long
and filled with glorious chap
ters. In classical times Greece
produced city-states, kingdoms
and democracies, and its
achievements are the legacy of
civilization.
Greece is a small country
that covers an area of 50,547
square miles and occupies the
southern part of the Balkan
Peninsula, reaching into the
eastern Mediterranean Sea. The
country is bounded on three
sides by water: on the east, the
Aegean Sea; on the west, the
Ionian Sea, and on the south,
the Cretan Sea. To the north
Greece is bounded by a 755
mile-long land frontier with Al
bania, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria and
Turkey.
Mountainous Land
Greece, or Hellas as the Hel
lenes prefer to call it, is an
extremely mountainous country.
Only 28 per cent of its surface
is arable land under cultivation.
In addition to continental
Greece, it has 437 islands 134
of which are inhabited. They
fall under a number of groups
such as the Ionian Islands, the
Cyclades, the Aegean and the
Dodecanese. The two largest is
lands are Crete and Euboea.
The southern part of continental
Greece, the feloponnesian pe
ninsula, is separated by tne
conntn canal.
Greece today is a constitution
al monarchy, women were
granted suffrage in 1952, and
proportional representation was
put into effect in April, 185.
Greek Orthodox is the official
church. Elementary education is
compulsory. There are six
schools of university rank in
Athens and one in Thessaloniki.
The national income per cap
ita in Greece is estimated to bo
around $350 a year, but it is
uneauallv distributed.
A typical middle class family
Is that of CG.K. (most Greeks
refuse to have their names men
tioned). The father earns about
$150 a month the mother about
$100. Their 22-year-old son,
George, is studying engineering
on a university scholarship. His
17-year-old brother, Alexis, at
tends high school.
The family, along with the
grandmother, lives in a three
room apartment, modestly fur
nished with ordinary chairs, ta
bles and beds. One bedroom
also is used as the living room.
They own a radio, but there is
no television in Greece yet.
Greece has a coast line of
9.335 miles. It has a very in
dented coastline with large
gulfs running deep into the
mainland. The biggest is Suda
Bay in Crete, which was able
to contain the entire British
fleet during World War I. Be
cause of its many islands,
Greece has a large seafaring
population, and has one of the
largest merchant fleets in the
world.
In the 1961 census, Greece
Romney invites
GOP hopefuls
to Michigan
LANSING (UPI) - Gov.
George Romney said Thursday
he had invited four possible
GOP candidates for the 1964
presidential nomination to Mich
igan. Romney said he had extend
ed invitations to Gov. William
Scranton of Pennsylvania, Sen.
Barry Goldwater of Arizona,
Gov. Nelson Rockefeller of New
York and former Vice Prest
dent Richard Nixon.
Romney is scheduled to intro
duce Scranton at a dinner be
fore the Economic Club in De
troit on Feb. 10, and said he
"would be willing to introduce
any of them" to the people of
Michigan.
In regard to Scranton's pos
sible candidacy, Romney said.
"obviously some people are un
dertaking his support and 1
would assume It is on an or
ganized basis.
"Although I don't happen
to be impressed by the fact
that he has talked to Gen. El
senhower. Gen. Eisenhower has
talked to quite a few people,"
riomney said.
Romney said he had not ex
tended an invitation to 1960
jGOP vice presidential candi
date Henry Cabot Lodge, who
now is ambassador to South
Viet Nam, because "1 gather
tic ui-r?i i ii ne couid ledve
'Viet Nam right now,"
had 8,388,553 Inhabitants. Ath
ens, the capital, had 1,852,709
people. ..
rarm Bswwmy
The economy of Greece U
mainly agricultural. According
to the 1961 census, 56.5 per pen.
of its population was rural or
semi-urban.
Farms are small, with an av
erage of less than 3 acres per
family, 'mere are no largo es
tates since most have been ex
propriated and distributed to
farmers in the last 50 years.
Tobacco, wine, olive oil and
wheat are the main agricultur
al products, but in the post-war
period rice production was pro
moted up to a point to make
the country self-sufficient.
War Brings Invasion
In October, 1940, Italy invaded
Greece when Mussolini's ulti
matum was rejected, but the
outnumbered Greeks fought he
roically and drove Italian troop
back into Albania.
Adolf Hitler was forced to
come to the aid of Ms ally and
the Greeks were crushed seven
months later.
By the end of 1944, the Nazi
and Italian invaders pulled out
of Greece and a plebiscite re
called the king.
The Communists attempted to
seize the government at the end
of World War II and for the
next five years the Greeks were
engaged in a bitter struggle to
prevent a takeover by the Reds.
The Truman Doctrine support
ed the Greek government and,
with Marshall Plan aid, the
Marshall Plan aid, the Commu
nists were defeated.
King George died April 1,
1947, and was succeeded by his
brother, Paul. King Paul I was
married Jan. 9, 1938, to Prin
cess Frederika Louise of Han
nover. They have three chilr
dren: Princess Sophia, 25, Prin
cess Irene, zi, ana wown
Prince Constantine, 23, the heir
to the throne.
Man J3f fakes
young bride, 19
DENVER (UPI) Earl L.
Madsker, was honeymooning at
home Thursday with his new
bride.
Medsker is 83. His bride, the
former Gwendolyn Davis of
Baker, Fla., is 19.
The couple was married In
Medsker's home on Christmas
Eve by Justice of the Peace
Harry Wall Jr. of suburban
Adams City, then spent Christ
mas Day entertaining guests.
"The marriage might seem
silly to some people, but - it
makes sense to us," said Med
sker, who had fonr children
before being divorced from his
first wife 30 years ago. He has
12 grandchildren.
"We both know people can
have the wrong idea about this
marriage," he said, "But
summed up, it Is companion
ship and business."
He said the business elements
of his life were getting too hard
to handle.
"I need someone I can trust
and who has the know-how,"
he said, gazing fondly at his
new wife.
Medsker Is In the real estate
and tax title business, and says
he has done pretty well. "In
fact, I've set up a $100,000 fund
institute to educate Medsker
children," he said. The founda
tion guarantees a college educa
tion for all his descendants.
"This is where Gwendolyn
comes in," he said. "She's got
a good grasp of what the edu
cational fundation means. She
thinks it's a wonderful pro
gram, and It has had a lot to
do with our marriage."
"I haven't had too much bus
iness experience yet," his
bride tossed in, "but I'm at
tracted to the work Involved."
The Medskers decided to
spend their honeymoon at home.
"There's too much work to do,"
the groom explained.
Visitors leave
substantial sum
in state in '63
SALEM (UPI) - Out-of-state
visitors traveling in Oregon
spent an estimated $220 million
in the state during 1963, High
way Engineer Forrest Cooper
said today.
Cooper said a highway de
partment survey showed reve
nue from visitors was up 1.4 per
cent from last year the year
traffic to the Seattle World's
Fair boosted all tourist business
to record levels in the North
west. Cooper said the $220 million
expenditure represented money
spent for food, lodging, recre
ation, car expenses and other
miscellaneous Items. He said
the average daily expenditure
by visitors, and their length of
stay in Oregon Increased this
year.
Expenditures by travelers In
out of state cars were es
timated from thousands of in
terviews taken during four sea
sonal periods at locations on all
major highways in the state,
Cooper said.