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...unkind to mention that the best Andrews "sister" is Janie Sell, who enlivens the train ride with a very funny imitation of Marlene Dietrich. Patty and Maxene have taken pains to insist that Janie is in no sense a replacement for La Verne, who died in 1967. In fact, Sell's character, somehow unfairly, turns out to be a spy ("Mitzi, a Nazi?") dragged from the stage before Maxene and Patty, in blinding red, white and blue spangles, sing their finale...
...Elke Sommer, Sarah Miles, the Andrews Sisters and Liv Ullmann. Coming in at No. 10 was British Hermaphrodite Rock Singer David Bowie, only the second man in 14 years to make the list (the first: Milton Berle). Explained Blackwell: "Bowie's a cross between Joan Crawford and Marlene Dietrich doing a glitter revival of New Faces...
...Henry Dietrich earns a modest $125 a week at his job exercising horses at a race track not far from his Broward County home in Davie, Fla. When doctors told him that his oldest son Jody, 6, was suffering from a serious heart defect that would require treatment costing $2,500, Dietrich was hard pressed to come up with the money. What's more, he apparently misunderstood hospital administrators when they told him that they would appreciate a deposit before admitting his son. They were not demanding any money in advance, they said later. But no matter. Dietrich told...
...happening in this country when a six-year-old child needs life-saving surgery and is denied treatment because some hospital demands a down payment on the inherent right he was born with to health and happiness? We are enclosing $2,000, which we hope will give Jody Dietrich at least a small shot at life, and we soundly condemn people in the system who made this action on our part necessary, although we do it gladly...
...letter was signed Cannabis Rex for the Broward Marijuana Dealers Association. Such charity by the counterculture set is not new (TIME, Sept. 17), but one could wonder at the reaction in the upper councils of the association when the organization learns what Jody Dietrich hopes to grow up to be: a policeman...