TRIBUNE SHOPPER SEYMOUR, INDIANA Nye, Sonny And Cher Head List Steve Allen presides over a full hour of humor and music on 1 "The Steve Allen Comedy Hour," new summer Series in color, beginning Wednesday, June 14, 9-10 p. m. on the CBS Television Network, Channels 8 and 11. Steve Allen Comedy Hour" will be produced by a youthful production staff headed by Binder. Gary Belkin tops the writing staff, which includes Ron Clark, Kenny Solms, Gail Parent and.
Ellison. Evans, left, and Barbara of Miss Stanwyck's own appear in "The Great Safe SATURDAY, JUNE-10, 1967- "500" To 'Wide World The sensational Indianapolis "500," packed with the thrills and excitement that are always a part of the world's greatest racing classie, will be presented in color on "ABC's Wide World of Sports" today, p. m. The National AAU Women's. Indoor Platform Diving Championship and a U.
S. Open golf championship from the Baltusrol Golf Club in Springfield, N. J. will be seen on the all-color program along with the Indianapolis "500." A. J.
Foyt, winner for the third time, threaded his way through a- final lap pile- up of cars after Parnelli Jones was forced out of the race just laps from victory in the 200-lap test of man and machine, The 51st Indy Classic, which took two days to complete because of rain, was highlighted by Jones' revolutionary turbine powered car: that seemed assured of victory until a faulty gear box put him out of the race and provided Foyt with his opportunity. Rodger Ward, twice winner of the Indianapolis 1959 and 1962, and now retired from Jim McKay, "ABC's wide World of Sports" host, and racing authority Chris Eccnomaki in describing the action. from the Indianapolis- Motor Speedway. The "500" had more than its share of spins and mishaps but thankfully there were no fatalities and no serious injuries. The National AAU Women's Indoor Platform Diving Championship, which oddly enough is held outdoors because few indoor pools have a 10-meter board, is held at Arlington State College in Tex.
Bill Flemming will commenton the diving form of many of the girls who will be participating in the .1968 Summer Olympics from Mexico City, which will be televised exclusively by ABC-TV. Among the contestants: are Lesley Bush of Princeton, N. gold medalist at Tokyo; 19-year-old Patty Simms, Arcadia, Lt. Micki King of the U.S.A.F.; Patsy Willard, Mesa, and Shirley Teeples, Compton, Calif. Jim McKay and golf expert Byron Nelson will discuss the 1967 U.
S. Open golf ship, which will be conducted for a record fifth time at Baltusrol and will be. seen Saturday, June 17, p.m. and Sunday, June 18, 4-6 p. m.
The third round telecast of the Open on Saturday will pre empt "ABC's Wide World of Sports" for one week. McKay and Nelson will review the history of the Open at Baltusrol. The famed tour- Top All-Color Of Sports' nament was conducted at the New Jersey course in 1903, 1915, 1936 and 1954. ABC-TV will cover the final six holes of play each day and Nelson will offer an analysis of these holes. "Lord Byron" will make his predictions on the players he expects to do well at Baltusrol and the score he believes it will take to win.
Chet Forte produced: and Robert and Lou Volpicelli directed ABC's coverage of the Indianapolis Gem Fanciers- Linda Stanwyck see to the safety cache of baubles as they Nickname When Charles M. Schulz's parents nicknamed their twoday-old son after a comic strip Canada and is followed daily by an estimated 90 million readers. character, they were not know- In 1965 the "Peanuts" exingly dealing in prophecy. It tended that audience, when they just turned out that way. appeared in the first of the Whether or not the name series of highly popular borrowed from Bar- mated color cartoon specials ney Google's boisterous nag on the CBS Televison Network.
Sparkplug, had any profound Their next one, "You're in effect upon Schulz's future is Love, Charlie Brown," will be a subject for metaphysicians. presented Monday, June 12, the fact is that "Sparky" p.m. grew up to create "Peanuts," The world of Charlie Brown one of the most successful comic is a "spin-off" from the world strips of all time, which ap- of Charles Schulz. The currently in some 900 writer readily admits that he, newspapers in the U. S.
and patterned Charlie from his own Robbery" on "The Big Valley" to be presented in color Monday, June 12, from 9.10 p. m.over Channels Prophetic early life, which was plagued by. a seemingly endless of minor frustrations, pointments, bumbles, defeats and near-misses. "I am vaguely embarrassed," says the grown-up Charlie, "when I realize that millions of people all over the are reading every day all the dumb things I did I was little." Charles Monroe Schulz born in Minneapolis, Nov. 26, 1922.
His. ambition to become a cartoonist have started very soon -after, because Schulz now calls: "My ambition from est memory was to produce a daily comic strip." It a long, frustrating, Charlie Brown-strewn road. As a child, Schulz was indifferent scholar, distinguished onlv for one report card was Charlie Brown-perfect-all failures. His one personal was his ability to draw, which he spent most of time to the detriment of other studies. When he worked up the courage to mit some sketches to school yearbook, they were jected.
Having finally struggled through high school, while reading comics and sketching everything and everybody in his real and imagined Schulz rejected the idea of ing on to college. -In-1943 he. was drafted the Army and was trained a machine-gunner. But he more Charlie Brown than dier. The only time he in a position to exchange with the enemy, he had gotten to load his gun.
After the war Schulz turned to live in St. Paul his father, a widower. He a job doing lettering for a magazine, then left that to teach at a Minneapolis school. It was there that met Joyce Halverson, sister a fellow instructor and his serious romance. When he moned up the bravery to pose, Schulz got the surprise of his life.
She accepted. In 1948 he sold his first toon to the Saturday Post and soon -after that hired to draw a cartoon for a newspaper in St. The strip had an irregular career, since it was only when the editor and permitted. After a year, had another of his rare of courage and asked for daily assignment and He was fired. But in 1950 his often-rejected cartoon strip, originally entitled "Li'1 Folks," was ace by United Feature Syndicate and was renamed "Peanuts." Since that time it has steadily increased in popularity and readership, until today it is a worldwide daily legend.
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