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...encouragement from President Ford, 61, and California's Governor Reagan, 63, Jack celebrated his 60th birthday by swimming 1½ miles across San Francisco Bay from Alcatraz to Fisherman's Wharf-handcuffed, his feet chained together, and towing a rowboat filled with 1,000 lbs. of sand. After 80 minutes of diving through the bay like a clumsy dolphin, Jack landed at the Wharf, blue with cold. Rushed to a nearby sauna for defrosting, he emerged to the cheers of fans and promptly fell to the ground, only to do ten brisk pushups. Then, his teeth still chattering...
with the glitter of white sand, faces...
...first glance at the new television season suggests that the mewing pussycat trademark of Mary Tyler Moore's M.T.M. Enterprises Inc. could turn out to be the tiger of TV situation comedy. M.T.M. is responsible for three of the five new sitcoms on the tube: Rhoda, Paul Sand in Friends and Lovers and The Texas Wheelers. All three seem to have the potential to join Moore's own show (and The Odd Couple, when it is at its erratic best) as the tube's few regular offerings showing something like recognizable human behavior...
...PAUL SAND in FRIENDS and LOVERS (CBS, Saturday, 8:30 p.m. E.D.T.) exemplifies another virtue of the Moore style, which is to get people out of bland Brady Bunch suburban housing and show them working at jobs that are odd and interesting. Having Moore herself work in a local TV newsroom was a stroke of genius, since the setting provides endless possibilities for novel situations; similarly, it is a relief that Rhoda's new boy friend is not an ad man or an architect, but in the wrecking and salvage business. As for Sand, he lives in a jumbled...
...Sand comes equipped with a financially harassed brother-in-law (Michael Pataki) who lives in the failed subdivision he designed ("the only FHA-approved ghost town"). Pataki's wife (Penny Marshall) provides another standard element in the Moore formula, a voice for the reality principle, keeping everyone's fantasies within bounds. Trying to borrow money to keep a perpetual-student sister in school, Pataki inquires whether Marshall would like to see the girl "out in the streets." "No, she wouldn't do too well there either," she replies thoughtfully. Sand, who starred in the superb Story Theater...