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...Storefront Lawyers (CBS) and The Interns (CBS) both exploit Mod Squad's multihero angle, but neither one is genuinely mod or engrossing. The three attorneys, one a woman, earn their bread by serving a stuffy Los Angeles firm, and their kicks by melodramatically providing legal aid from a ghetto storefront. The five interns, including one female and one black, churn in a centrifuge of subplots as soaperific as any afternoon hospital show...
...Mod Martyrdom
...member of the class of '60 who had come the farthest for the reunion (from San Francisco to Port Arthur, Texas). Her Thomas Jefferson High School chums were more than a little bit surprised to find that she hadn't changed much, except for her feathered, wild, mod clothes. One buddy muttered rather sadly of the let-it-all-hang-out soul-rock singer: "I hate to say she was a real lady because that's not her image...
...served her country in three wars, and plans to leave this fall for her eighth annual tour of duty in Viet Nam. Martha Raye, however, will not be playing her mod-witch part from Bugaloos, a fall TV show, but will serve as a surgical nurse with the Green Berets. The Nightingale role is hardly a new one for Colonel Raye, who has been a sometime practicing nurse ever since 1936. Twice hit by shrapnel during the Viet Nam years, she bravely classifies her wounds as "not serious. Once in the foot, once in the ribs...
...bowling alleys, some sell real estate. If Joe Pepitone stays retired at 29, he says he will stick to hairdressing. The eccentric ex-Yankee first baseman owns a chain of "My Place" hair-styling salons for men. After a half-season of feuding with the Houston Astros' management, Mod Joe abruptly quit and came home to New York. His long, carefully shaped locks, embellished by a partial hairpiece, showed to advantage on the Merv Griffin Show, and Joe made his singing debut with a creditably crooned version of Around the World. But he admitted that his heart is still...