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...depths of its economic doldrums, the U.S. entertainment industry rallied last week to raise over $800,000 for its Motion Picture and Television Relief Fund. There were parties all weekend, notably one given by Sammy Davis Jr. and a "come casually beautiful" dinner dance at Polly Bergen's. The gala, with an audience of 5,300 at the Los Angeles Music Center, outgalaed just about everything in Hollywood memory. "Never before have so many stars appeared in one evening," said M.C. Jimmy Stewart, "and that includes the Academy Awards, the Emmy Awards...
...northern New Jersey. When the body of a 15-year-old high school student named Victoria Zielinski, from Ramsey, was found partially clothed, her head crushed, Smith was brought in for questioning. After a day of intensive interrogation-without legal counsel-he gave police an oral statement that the Bergen County prosecutor's office claimed was an unsigned confession. Smith disavowed it during his trial, but he was convicted after less than two hours of jury deliberation...
...year later by a novel, A Reasonable Doubt. His moving account of the circumstances surrounding his case and his life in the death house attracted a sympathetic following. But always his energies were directed toward appealing his plight through the courts. After last week's decision, the Bergen County prosecutors responsible for a new trial conceded the difficulty of gathering witnesses and evidence more than 14 years after the crime was committed. Smith is finally close to the freedom he sought so long from a cell on death...
...Division "B", Reeve took a first and then two seconds, and then gave way to Koch who took a second and a third to give the Division "B" boat ten points to tie M. I. T.'s co-skippers, Tom Bergen and Al Spoon...
...went on to win the North American collegiates and the North American open. The Crimson's Dave Little was third in his heat and still has a chance to qualify if third-place finishers are chosen later. In the second heat at Coast Guard, Glovinsky finished second to Bergen, while the Crimson's George Putnam was fifth...