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...Steiner. With 7:26 remaining in the stanza and Yale on a power play, Steiner flipped the puck toward an apparently open net, as Lau was on his back in the crease. Somehow Lau turned over on his stomach, stuck his glove out toward the net, and Uri Geller-ed the puck into his glove. Incredible...
Robert D. Geller Freeport...
...behind American Short Story is Robert Geller, the same producer who transformed some John Updike stories into a fine network movie, Too Far to Go, last year. This time out he has created eight new movies based on stories by such diverse writers as Thurber, Hawthorne and Twain. The lead-off shows, adapted from Ring Lardner's The Golden Honeymoon and Willa Gather's Paul's Case, are standouts. Geller has an uncommon knack for translating literature to the screen...
Since 1967 Simon Geller, now 58, has put in 85 hours a week running an FM radio station in Gloucester, Mass., spinning the records, answering the phone, writing the ads, maintaining the transmitter-all by himself. His annual earnings from the station have never topped $5,000. Last year a group of local businessmen and politicians asked the Federal Communications Commission to transfer Geller's license to them, claiming that his all-classical-music format was "not responsive to the needs of the community." They proposed to replace it with dinner music and public service programs...
During a three-day hearing, 37 listeners testified for Geller, only two for his opponents. Last week FCC Administrative Judge John H. Conlin praised Geller for his "selfless dedication and highly personalized style" and renewed his license for three years. Battle over, Geller hopes that advertising will pick up. Says he: "It's taken ten years of starving before the big national advertisers realized I was here, but they're starting to wake up." Score another one for the little...