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Born. To precociously sexy TV Mouseketeer and Film Actress (Shaggy Dog, Muscle Beach Party) Annette Funicello, 32, and Talent Agent Jack Gilardi, 44: a third child, second son; in Burbank, Calif. Name: Jason Michael...
...pilot for The Dick Van Dyke Show was being filmed, the recently separated Mary was introduced to an NBC executive whose own marriage had just dissolved. Mary and Grant were married three years later. The network elevated Tinker to vice president in the programming department and made his headquarters Burbank, Calif., where his bride happened to be working. A five-year idyll ended in 1966, when NBC ordered Tinker back to Manhattan, and Dick Van Dyke decided to leave his show to pursue a film career...
Died. Cliff Arquette, 68, creative comedian whose squashed hat, spectacles and baggy pants identified him to TV viewers as the wisecracking bumpkin, Charley Weaver; of a heart attack; in Burbank, Calif. Arquette began carving the character of Charley during the heyday of radio, when he played the "Old-timer" on the Fibber McGee and Molly show. In 1957, Charley became a regular on the Jack Paar show, where he shared with the world letters written to him by his mother from mythical Mount Idy, Ohio...
...first professional job little more than a year ago as a stand-up comic playing to an off-season crowd in a Puerto Rican resort hotel. Actually, Freddie Prinze is the sort of kinetic, compulsive comic who is and always has been on-whether the locale is a Burbank TV studio or the darkened stoops of Manhattan's West 157th Street, where he was born...
...Panama), then surrendered to the FBI and was fined $10,000 for violating the U.S. arms embargo to Palestine. The smuggling helped create the Israeli Air Force, in which Schwimmer served as its first chief engineer. After the war, he set up his own aircraft servicing business in Burbank, Calif., but David Ben-Gurion persuaded him to return to organize what eventually became I.A.I. Says Schwimmer: "Ben-Gurion did not know a screw driver from a slide rule, but he had a vision of what the state would need. It was apparent from the beginning that the security situation demanded...