Levelland Daily Sun-News (Levelland, Tex.), Vol. 28, No. 38, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 21, 1968 Page: 14 of 14
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CLOVERETTE 4-H OFFICERS—Monica Cosley serves as
vice president and Sylvia Bledsoe, president, of the Carver
Cloverette 4-H Club. Other officers standing include Mary
Franklin, recreation leader; Pat Phillips, secretary; Pricilla
Golightly, parliamentarian; Mylinda Thomas, treasurer; Mary-
lon Ware, guide; and Doris Waters, Pep. Ruthie Mae Waters
serves as club leader. (Staff Photo)
'Hallmark Hall Of Fame’
Returns To NBC Wednesday
By RICK DU BROW
HOL1 YWOOD (UPI) — NBC
TV’s “Hallmark Hall of Fame”
returned Wednesday night with
a football drama, “A Punt, A
Pass and A Prayer,” about an
injured pro quarterback trying
a comeback.
It was a very good and timely
idea for a contemporary origin-
al drama because certainly no
■port nowadays has captured
the national imagination as
much as pro football. We have
had, for instance, the George problem. The result was that
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Plimpton book and film, “Paper
Lion,” and Charlton Heston wBl
be coming up in a movie called
“Pro.”
But, curiously, the chief
problem Wednesday night was
that television, which broad-
casts countless gridiron games
and made the National and
American Football Leagues
powerful, some who failed to
capture the real flavor and
taste of the pro game in the 90-
minute production.
This could hardly be blamed
on the writer, David Mark,for
while his script was not
monumental, it was surely
serviceable. The main fault,
alas, was in the trappings,
which too often frankly generat-
ed the feel of a theatrical
production, rather than the real
thing—despite some effective
moments.
Stereotyped Production
Production has always been
the strong point of the
“Hallmark Hall of Fame,” but
perhaps its great identification
in the past with period pieces
made the transition to a
contemporary setting a bit of a
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O’Brian)
marriage)
moet of the characters gave the
impression they were talking
the way they thought pro
athletes and their associates
should talk—rather than the
way they do. It was too
stereotyped. People are people
in any line of work.
Briefly, the tale concerned a
onetime star (Hugh
who risks his life and mar:
by insisting on making the
bigtime again after being
seriously injured. He does well
with a minor league team, and
the drama is whether he or
one of the other quarterbacks will
be called up to a team that
needs one erf them in a stretch
drive.
In the end, he doesn’t make
it, but among other things,” he
has succeeded in instilling a
love of the sport, and an
understanding of heartfelt in-
volvement, in his young bonus I
baby competitor, whose onlyj
interest has been money.)
O’Brian unfortunately was not
quite up to the better script
was adequate,
demanded more.
and the part
material provided him, especial-
tv in the sensitive moments. He
Ex-Player Good
Shelly Novack, an ex-football
player, was very good as the
young quarterback, and Ralpt
Meeker handled with skill
small but juicy part as
heartless scout. Don Defore, as
a sportsw riter, Bert Freed, as i
coach, and Betsy Palmer, ai
O’Brian’s wife, had ve
hackneyed roles and cou
merely carry them out. The)
same with Nancy Dussault, as
OTlrian’s old flame who sees
the tragedy of a man who never!
quite grows up—but doesn't
wholly appreciate the romance
of his purity toward the sport.
There was one inevitable, yet
lovely, scene—O’Brian dashir^
up and down a deserted football
stadium at night, remembering’
past glories and awaiting the
scout’s word. It might have
been a splendid production
overall, but television has so
saturated us with the real
flavor of pro football—even if
only indirectly—that a drama
about it carries an extra burden
to prove itself to us.
Pneumonia Kills Thousands
Each Year In Nation
By RICHARD V. OLIVER
BETHESDA, Md. (UPI)—A
popular cartoon of the 1950’s
showed an overbearing woman
caring for her sick husband, a
miserable thing bundled up in
bed with a bad cold.
"They got a cure for
pneumonia now, but you go out
and catch a cold,” she snorted.
Pneumonia is still around. In
fact, each year bacterial
pneumonia kills between 15,000
and 25,000 persons in the United
States, while up to 500,000
others are stricken. Pneumonia
is more dangerous during flu
outbreaks, particularly among
persons over 55.
The National Institute of
Allergy and infectious Diseases
(MAID) announced s program
Wednesday to develop for mass
use a pneumonia vaccine, am—
oddly enough—that was
effective 20 years ago bet
abandoned to make way for the
so-called "miracle” drugs.
The arrival of powerful
antibiotics and penicillins over-
an important develop-
fei the battle
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strategic error, MAID reported.
Notes Overreaction
Dr. Edwin M. Lemer, coor-
dinator for the NIAID pneumo-
nia vaccine program, told a
news conference Wednesday
that the medical world had
overreacted to the advent of the
modem drugs.
"Penicillin was the cure-all in
those days,” he said. "It was
felt that there was no need to
vaccinate people—after all, we
thought we could cure them."
Lemer said the medical
profession was—and probably
■till is—unaware of the number
of pneumonia deaths in the
United States. He cited figures
showing that pneumonia, along
with influenza, is ranked fifth
among the leading causes of
death.
Why are people dying of
pneumonia? What appened to
the "miracle" drags?
A key breakthrough came in
1962 when Dr. Robert Austrian
of Em University of Pennsylva-
nia School of Medicine studied
pneumonia cases at two New
York City hospitals. "The study
showed that there was irreversi-
ble damage done early in the
disesee—damage that drugs
eoeld not control,” said Aus-
have to be prevented.
According to the MAID plans
announced Wendesday, some
400,000 pneumonia patients will
be studied to determine which
of the 12 different strains of
pneumococcal bacteria are most
prevalent.
Further, MAID has awarded
contracts for surveillance and
production of the vaccine, which
will be tested for safety and
effectiveness in animals, human
volunteers, and then larger
population groups.
It was estimated that because
erf the favorable experience with
the vaccine 20 years ago, it
might be possible to have the
new vaccine licensed and ready
for general use fay the middle of
1970,
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