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Introduced in 1946 on a kids' record album by former Capital Records executive Alan Livingston, Bozo debuted on Los Angeles TV three years later, played by Pinto Colvig, who had provided the voice on the records. During the clown's heyday in the mid-'60s, 183 different TV Bozos entertained kids in almost every major U.S. city, as well as countries from Brazil to Thailand. His popularity even prompted a dispute over authorship. Larry Harmon, an early Bozo who bought the rights to the character in 1956, for years promoted himself as Bozo's creator, until Livingston and others exposed...
About 150 demonstrators and 100 police remained after the buses left, but the campus returned to its usual calm. Colvig said some 50 demonstrators who could not fit on the buses were photographed by police and will be subject to arrest later...
University spokesman Tom Debley said 11 people were hurt in the protest over Berkeley's $2.4 billion in South Africa-related stock. Another spokesman, Ray Colvig, said one of them was a police officer hurt by a flying brick...
...Colvig said the action began before dawn when police placed between 100 and 120 demonstrators in the buses. Hundreds of other protesters quickly surrounded the buses, preventing police from taking them to jail...
...Colvig said he could not predict whether there will be future campus activity but added that "there is not much evidence of any really serious organizing...