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Wednesday, January 29 THE GLEN CAMPBELL GOODTIME HOUR (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.).* Glen Campbell stars in the premiere of his new variety hour with Guests Tom and Dick Smothers, Bobbie Gentry, Pat Paulsen and Singer-Composer John Hartford...
Assuming that you can take the country out of a country singer, there was a lot to take out of Glen Campbell. His home town, Billstown, Ark., is about as country as you can get. The downtown section still consists of a grocery store, where Rastus Williamson sits on the feed sacks and talks to Sewell and Sissy Dabbs all day long every Saturday. Color television has come to town, though - in the form of the set that Glen gave his parents for Christmas. This week, in fact, relatives and friends will be gathered at the Campbell home to watch...
Hitting Paydirt. The seventh son in a farm family of eight boys and four girls, Glen began to play a guitar at the age of four, when his father through a Sears, Roebuck catalog sent for one priced at $5. He drew on whatever music was at hand: the hymns he sang in the choir at the Church of Christ, homely folk tunes, country pickin' that he heard at the county fair, and records on the radio-especially Hank Williams and Frank Sinatra. By the age of 14, he was proficient enough to say goodbye to school and begin...
Officers for the coming year are: Brian Wallace '71 of Leverett House and South Salem, N.Y. director; Glen Birmingham, Ala., assistant director; Thomas E. Frank '70 of Lowell House and Charles F. Wilson '71 of Dunster House and Key Biscayne, Fla., assistant business manager...
Graham was the meet's only double winner, as he competed successfully in the freestyle at both 500 and 1000 yards. Powrie was second to Graham in the 1000 and was also runner-up in the 200-yard breaststroke behind Navy's Glen Stockdale. In the 200-yard individual medley, Poirier broke the Columbia pool record with a time...