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...sheep brother Gary off into the moral thickets of California suburbia, has frequently won its time slot since it debuted in December 1979. A newer entry. Flamingo Road, is putting lurid new life into NBC's chronically tired blood. Lorimar's Secrets of Midland Heights, an updated Peyton Place with the handsomest cast on TV, seemed to be finding its narrative stride before CBS canceled it last month for low ratings...
...manufactures most of the cholesterol found in the blood. Thus even the most careful diet will have only a limited effect on cholesterol levels. The Chicago survey also failed to take into account changes in the intervening 20 years that could have affected the development of heart disease. Notes Peyton Davis of the National Live Stock and Meat Board: "Not only diet could change, but also the amount of alcohol a man consumes, the amount he smokes and how much exercise he gets...
...dense popular culture; one remembers it now with a small smile of disbelief at the ingenious pointlessness of it: Milton Berle and Pinky Lee, My Little Margie and American Bandstand, Gorgeous George and Johnny Ray, and Elvis televised from the waist up on the Ed Sullivan Show. Grace Metalious (Peyton Place) and Mickey Spillane were available for mildly salacious excitement; the new tranquilizers (Miltown, Thorazine) saw to the jitters of civilization; Fulton Sheen and Norman Vincent Peale attended to the soul...
Wills starts in Philadelphia. Jefferson rode up alone to substitute for Peyton Randolph in the Virginia delegation to the Continental Congress: "This marginal first appearance of the man is somehow typical. He moved oddly in and out of his own life, keeping a shy but observant distance between himself and his surroundings." For a man doing such heavy work in a forest of intellectual history, Wills keeps a lively eye. Washington and Jefferson were both taller than 6 ft., "but Washington inhabited his height, seemed tall to those who thought Jefferson rather collapsible, all wrists and elbow." Sam Adams possessed...
MARRIED. Aretha Franklin, 36, long-reigning queen of soul, rhythm 'n' blues, gospel and nearly every other popular music territory; and Glynn Turman, 31, handsome actor of stage (A Raisin in the Sun), film (Cooley High) and television (Peyton Place); in a ceremony performed by the bride's father, the Rev. Clarence Franklin, in his Baptist church, with music by the Four Tops; she for the second time, he for the third...