BUBBLES KEEP YOUR BATH WATER WARMER LONGER.

IT TAKES LESS THAN A SECOND FOR YOUR BRAIN TO DECIDE IF A POTENTIAL PARTNER IS ATTRACTIVE OR NOT.

1983—CARRIE FISHER AS PRINCESS LEIA FOR ROLLING STONE COVER SHOOT. THE ACTRESS WAS PROMOTING THE RECENTLY FINISHED: RETURN OF THE JEDI, THE THIRD STAR WARS INSTALLMENT. 
 

THERE ARE 22 STARS SURROUNDING THE MOUNTAIN ON THE PARAMOUNT PICTURES LOGO.

BETWEEN JUNE 14, 1962 AND JANUARY 4, 1964, 13 SINGLE WOMEN BETWEEN THE AGES OF 19 AND 85 WERE MURDERED IN THE BOSTON AREA. MOST WERE SEXUALLY ASSAULTED AND STRANGLED IN THEIR APARTMENTS. WITHOUT ANY SIGN OF FORCED ENTRY INTO THEIR DWELLINGS, THE WOMEN WERE ASSUMED TO HAVE EITHER KNOWN THEIR ASSAILANTS OR HAVE VOLUNTARILY ALLOWED THEM INTO THEIR HOMES, BELIEVING THEM TO BE AN APARTMENT MAINTENANCE MAN, DELIVERY MAN, OR SOME OTHER SERVICE MAN. DESPITE ENORMOUS MEDIA PUBLICITY THAT WOULD PRESUMABLY HAVE DISCOURAGED WOMEN FROM ADMITTING STRANGERS INTO THEIR HOMES AFTER THE FIRST FEW MURDERS, THE ATTACKS CONTINUED. THE KILLINGS PANICKED AND FRIGHTENED MANY BOSTON-AREA YOUNG FEMALES, CAUSING SOME TO LEAVE THE AREA. MANY RESIDENTS PURCHASED TEAR GAS AND NEW LOCKS AND DEADBOLTS FOR HOME DOORS.

THE MURDERS OCCURRED IN SEVERAL CITIES, MAKING OVERALL JURISDICTION OVER THE CRIMES UNCLEAR. MASSACHUSETTS ATTORNEY GENERAL EDWARD W. BROOKE HELPED TO COORDINATE THE VARIOUS POLICE FORCES. WHILE THE POLICE WERE NOT CONVINCED THAT ALL OF THE MURDERS WERE THE ACTIONS OF ONE PERSON, MUCH OF THE PUBLIC BELIEVED SO; THE CONNECTION BETWEEN A MAJORITY OF THE VICTIMS AND HOSPITALS WERE WIDELY DISCUSSED.

ON OCTOBER 27, 1964, A STRANGER ENTERED A YOUNG WOMAN’S HOME POSING AS A DETECTIVE. HE TIED THE VICTIM TO HER BED, SEXUALLY ASSAULTED HER, AND THEN SUDDENLY LEFT, SAYING “I’M SORRY” AS HE WENT. THE WOMAN’S DESCRIPTION LED POLICE TO IDENTIFY THE ASSAILANT AS ALBERT DESALVO. WHEN HIS PHOTO WAS PUBLISHED, MANY WOMEN IDENTIFIED HIM AS THE MAN WHO HAD ASSAULTED THEM. EARLIER ON OCTOBER 27, DESALVO HAD POSED AS A MOTORIST WITH CAR TROUBLE AND ATTEMPTED TO ENTER A HOME IN BRIDGEWATER, MASSACHUSETTS. THE HOMEOWNER, FUTURE BROCKTON POLICE CHIEF RICHARD SPROULES, BECAME SUSPICIOUS AND EVENTUALLY FIRED A SHOTGUN AT DESALVO.

DESALVO WAS NOT INITIALLY SUSPECTED OF BEING INVOLVED WITH THE STRANGLINGS. IT WAS ONLY AFTER HE WAS CHARGED WITH RAPE THAT HE GAVE A DETAILED CONFESSION OF HIS ACTIVITIES AS THE BOSTON STRANGLER. HE INITIALLY CONFESSED TO  A FELLOW INMATE, GEORGE NASSAR. NASSAR REPORTED THE CONFESSION TO HIS ATTORNEY, F. LEE BAILEY, WHO TOOK ON DESALVO’S CASE. THE POLICE WERE IMPRESSED AT THE ACCURACY OF DESALVO’S DESCRIPTIONS OF THE CRIME SCENES. THOUGH THERE WERE SOME INCONSISTENCIES, DESALVO WAS ABLE TO CITE DETAILS WHICH HAD NOT BEEN MADE PUBLIC.

HOWEVER, THERE WERE NO PHYSICAL EVIDENCE TO SUBSTANTIATE HIS CONFESSION. AS SUCH, HE STOOD TRIAL FOR EARLIER, UNRELATED CRIMES OF ROBBERY AND SEXUAL OFFENSES IN WHICH HE WAS KNOWN AS “THE GREEN MAN” AND “THE MEASURING MAN” RESPECTIVELY. BAILY BROUGHT UP THE CONFESSION TO THE STRANGLINGS AS PART OF HIS CLIENT’S HISTORY AT THE TRIAL IN ORDER TO ASSIST IN GAINING A “NOT GUILTY BY REASON OF INSANITY” VERDICT TO THE SEXUAL OFFENSES BUT IT WAS RULED AS INADMISSIBLE BY THE JUDGE.

DESALVO WAS SENTENCED TO LIFE IN PRISON IN 1967. IN FEBRUARY OF THAT YEAR, HE ESCAPED WITH TWO FELLOW INMATES FROM BRIDGEWATER STATE HOSPITAL, TRIGGERING A FULL-SCALE MANHUNT. A NOTE WAS FOUND ON HIS BUNK ADDRESSED TO THE SUPERINTENDENT. IN IT DESALVO STATED THAT HE HAD ESCAPED TO FOCUS ATTENTION ON THE CONDITIONS IN THE HOSPITAL AND HIS OWN SITUATION. THE NEXT DAY HE GAVE HIMSELF UP. FOLLOWING THE ESCAPE HE TRANSFERRED TO THE MAXIMUM-SECURITY WALPOLE STATE PRISON WHERE, SIX YEARS LATER, HE WAS FOUND STABBED TO DEATH IN THE INFIRMARY. HIS KILLER OR KILLERS WERE NEVER IDENTIFIED.

 1962:

***ANNA E. SLESERS, 55, SEXUALLY MOLESTED WITH UNKNOWN OBJECT AND STRANGLED WITH THE BELT ON HER BATHROBE; FOUND ON JUNE 14, 1962 IN THE THIRD-FLOOR APARTMENT AT 77 GAINSBOROUGH ST., BACK BAY.

***MARY MULLEN, 85, DIED FROM A HEART ATTACK, BUT IN THE CONFESSION WAS SAID TO HAVE COLLAPSED AS DESALVO GRABBED HER; FOUND ON JUNE 28, 1962.

***HELEN BLAKE, 65, SEXUALLY MOLESTED AND STRANGLED WITH HER NYLON STOCKINGS; FOUND JUNE 30, 1962 IN HER APARTMENT AT 73 NEWHALL STREET, LYNN, MASS.

***IDA IRGA, 75, SEXUALLY MOLESTED AND STRANGLED; FOUND ON AUGUST 21, 1962 AT 7 GROVE STREET APT. #10 IN BOSTON.

***JANE SULLIVAN, 67, SEXUALLY ASSAULTED AND STRANGLED WITH HER NYLON STOCKINGS; FOUND ON AUGUST 30, 1962 AT 435 COLUMBIA ROAD, DORCHESTER.

1962-1964:

***SOPHIE CLARK, 20, SEXUALLY ASSAULTED AND STRANGLED WITH HER NYLON STOCKINGS, FOUND ON DECEMBER 5, 1962, BOSTON BACK BAY.

***PATRICIA BISSETTE, 23, SEXUALLY ASSAULTED AND STRANGLED WITH HER NYLON STOCKINGS; FOUND ON DECEMBER 31, 1962, BOSTON BACK BAY.

***MARY BROWN, 69, STABBED, STRANGLED AND BEATEN, FOUND ON MARCH 9, 1963 IN LAWRENCE, MASS.

***BEVERLY SAMMANS, 23, STABBED TO DEATH ON MAY 8, 1963 AT 4 UNIVERSITY ROAD IN CAMBRIDGE, MASS.

***EVELYN CORBIN, 58, SEXUALLY ASSAULTED AND STRANGLED WITH HER NYLON STOCKINGS; FOUND ON SEPTEMBER 6, 1963 IN SALEM, MASS.

***JOANN GRAFF, 23, SEXUALLY ASSAULTED AND STRANGLED ON NOVEMBER 23, 1963 IN LAWRENCE, MASS.

***MARY SULLIVAN, 19, SEXUALLY ASSAULTED AND STRANGLED WITH DARK STOCKINGS; FOUND BY HER ROOMMATES ON JANUARY 4, 1964 IN BOSTON.

“HARRY O” RAN FOR 2 SEASONS ON ABC-TV. THE FIRST SEASON WAS FILMED IN SAN DIEGO. THE SECOND SEASON MOVED PRODUCTION TO LOS ANGELES.
HARRY O” WAS AXED AFTER ONLY 2 SEASONS. IT’S SAID THAT ITS STAR DAVID JANSSEN WAS SO EMBITTERED BY THAT CANCELLATION, HE SWORE OFF EVER TACKLING ANOTHER WEEKLY PRODUCTION.

WRITING IN THE NEW YORK TIMES IN 1977, DAVID THORBURN, A LITERATURE PROFESSOR AT THE MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, OPINED THAT JANSSEN’S EPONYMOUS SLEUTH, HARRY ORWELL—-WITH HIS TWISTED SMILE, TWEED SPORTS COAT AND KHAKI PANTS, AND COMTEMPLATIVE NATURE—WAS “MORE CREDIBLY AND RICHLY IMAGGINED THAN NEARLY ALL THE TV DETECTIVES WHO PROCEDED HIM. DAVID JANSSEN THREW HIMSELF INTO HIS ORWELL ROLE, REMARKING THAT HE “LAID THE BONE–WEARY BUT PERSERVERING TALLY OF HIS OWN LIFE RIGHT ON THE COUNTER, LIKE A BAR TAB COVERED WITH TOO MANY CIGARETTE BURNS AND GLASS RINGS.”

THE PRINCIPAL OF “HARRY O” WAS TO BE AN AGING, FALLIBLE, OFTEN BRUTALLY HONEST EX-POLICEMAN WHO LIVES ON A DISABILITY PENSION HE EARNED THROUGH THE MISFORTUNE OF BEING SHOT IN THE LINE OF DUTY, AND MOONLIGHTS AS A SHAMUS. HE HAS A MODEST HOUSE ON THE BEACH, ALONG WITH A BATTERED OLD SAILBOAT—-THE ANSWER—-THAT HE’S STRIVING TO MAKE SEAWORTHY ONCE MORE. HE DOESN’T BOAST MANY FRIENDS, BUT WILL RACE OUT ON A LIMB TO HELP THOSE HE HAS, WHILE SIMULTANEOUSLY DENYING ANY ALTRUISITIC MOTIVES. IN ADDITION, HE REFUSES TO CARRY A GUN, AND HE DOESN’T DRIVE; INSTEAD, HE GETS AROUND VIA PUBLIC BUSES.

JANSSEN COULD BE ALOOF IN PERSON, BUT HE WAS CHARISMATIC ON SCREEN. HE HAD A REPUTATION, TOO, AS A WORKHORSE, SOMEONE WHO RARELY TOOK BREAKS FROM PERFORMING AND WHOSE TALENTS HAD GAINED HIM HORDES OF DEVOTEES.

JANSSEN PORTRAYED HARRY ORWELL AS CANTANKEROUS AND UNSOCIALABLE, A COMPETENT CRIME-SOLVER BUT PERSONALLY ABRASIVE. HE WAS ESPECIALLY RUDE TO AND DISMISSIVE OF WOMEN, WHO, NONETHELESS, WERE ENTHRALLED BY HIM IN A CHEESY FASHION ALL TOO COMMON ON MID-TO-LATE 20TH CENTURY TELEVISION. THE SHOW RAN FOR 44 EPISODES.

THERE WERE JANSSEN’S RUSTY-THROATED VOICE-OVERS—REMINISCENT OF THOSE 1940s RADIO DETECTIVE SERIALS—WHICH SUPPLIED SELF-DEPRECATING HUMOR, PATHOS, AND SPORADIC POETRY.

ORWELL SPENT 20 YEARS ON THE SAN DIEGO POLICE FORCE, AND HAD BECOME A LIEUTENANT PRIOR TO CATCHING THE BULLET IN HIS BACK. HE BILLS $100 A DAY, PLUS EXPENSES. HE’S DIVORCED, DESPISES TELEPHONES BUT GETS ALONG WITH YOUNG PEOPLE, OPERATES OUT OF HIS HOME (WHICH IS FREQUENTLY THE TARGET OF CRIMINAL ATTACK.) HARRY’S BOAT, THE ANSWER, WAS A METAPHOR FOR THE ANSWERS HE WANTS FROM LIFE, “WHICH NEVER COME TO REALITY.”

“ELEGY FOR A COP,” A DOLEFUL TALE THAT REPURPOSED FOOTAGE FROM THE 90-MINUTE VERSION OF THE INITIAL “HARRY O” PILOT. “ELEGY” HAD MANNY QUINLAN DRIVING NORTH FROM SAN DIEGO TO RESCUE HIS DOPER NIECE IN LOS ANGELES, ONLY TO BE GUNNED DOWN AND SET UP AS A CORRUPT COP FOR HIS TROUBLE. IT FELL TO ORWELL TO CLEAR HIS NAME.

 THE SHOW WAS DOOMED BY THE ABC-TV HIRING OF FRED SILVERMAN AS PRESIDENT IN 1975. SILVERMAN THOUGHT “HARRY O” WAS MERELY GOOD, WITH LIMITED PROSPECTS FOR AUDIENCE GROWTH.

THE FINAL NEW EPSIODE OF JANSSEN’S FOURTH CRIME DRAMA WAS BROADCAST ON APRIL 29, 1976. HE DIED FOUR YEARS LATER FROM A MASSIVE HEART ATTACK IN FEBRUARY 1980, AT 48 YEARS OLD. HE NEVER DID STAR IN ANOTHER WEEKLY SERIES.

 

YOU REPLACE ABOUT HALF OF YOUR FRIENDS EVERY 7 YEARS.

IN ADDITION TO BEING FLUENT IN FRENCH, SHE ALSO SPEAKS GERMAN AND ITALIAN. ADDITIONALLY, SHE RECEIVED A BACHELOR’S DEGREE FROM YALE IN 1985. FOSTER GRADUATED VALEDICTORIAN FROM THE PRESTIGIOUS LYCEE FRANCALS DE LOS ANGELES, A FRENCH-LANGUAGE HIGH SCHOOL IN CALIFORNIA.

A TOASTER USES ALMOST HALF AS MUCH ENERGY AS A FULL-SIZED OVEN.

DAVID CHASE, THE CREATOR OF THE SOPRANOS, ONLY DIRECTED TWO EPISODES, THE PILOT AND THE FINALE.

APRIL 1967–SAN FRANCISCO’S KMPX BECOMES THE FIRST FM STATION TO PLAY “DEEP CUTS” FROM ALBUMS, RATHER THAN MERELY SINGLES, A “FREE-FORM” NON-FORMAT THAT WILL SOON TRANSFORM ROCK RADIO.

OCTOBER 06, 1993—BASKETBALL SUPERSTAR MICHAEL JORDAN ANNOUNCED HIS RETIREMENT. JORDAN ATTEMPTED A MINOR-LEAGUE BASEBALL CAREER BUT RETURNED TO THE CHICAGO BULLS IN MARCH 1995.

JULY 28, 1973…ONE OF THE LAST GREAT OUTDOOR ROCK FESTIVALS WAS HELD AT WATKINS GLEN RACETRACK IN NEW YORK, WITH OVER 600,000 ATTENDING A “SUMMER JAM” FEATURING THE GRATEFUL DEAD, THE ALLMAN BROTHERS AND THE BAND. THIS WAS THE LARGEST CONCERT GATHERING EVER ASSEMBLED AT THE TIME.
JULY 28, 1992…PATTI LABELLE WALKS OFFSTAGE DURING HER CONCERT IN WARWICK, RI, HAVING COMPLAINED TO THE AUDIENCE ABOUT THE CATERING BACKSTAGE. 

***STEVE MORSE of DEEP PURPLE is 72
***SIMON KIRKE of BAD COMPANY is 77
Actor: MICHAEL HAYDEN of MURDER ONE is 63
Actress: LINDA KELSEY of LOU GRANT is 80
Actress: SALLY STRUTHERS of ALL IN THE FAMILY is 79
Actress: ELIZABETH BERKLEY of SHOWGIRLS is 54

JUNE 09, 1973—SECRETARIAT WON THE BELMONT STAKES, BECOMING THE HORSE RACING’S FIRST TRIPLE CROWN WINNER IN 25 YEARS.

NOVEMBER 1965–THIS WEEK, BOTH WALTER CRONKITE OF CBS NEWS AND PETER JENNINGS OF ABC NEWS ARE IN VIETNAM. SAYS JENNINGS, 27, ABOUT THE “COINCIDENCE”…”I AM NOT COMPETING ON A PERSONALITY BASIS. FIRST OF ALL, I’M ONLY ON 15 MINUTES TO HIS HALF HOUR. ALL I WANT TO DO IS PROVIDE AN ALTERNATE FACTOR. THE GUYS FIGHTING IN VIETNAM ARE MY CONTEMPORARIES, SO I FEEL THIS IS MY WAR.”

GETTING LESS THAN 7 HOURS OF SLEEP EACH NIGHT CAN REDUCE YOUR LIFE EXPECTANCY.

REAL DIAMONDS DON’T SHOW UP ON X-RAY IMAGES.

MARCH 1969–NEED A PHONE YOU CAN TAKE ANYWHERE AND LOOKS GREAT? HOW ABOUT A BRIEFCASE TELEPHONE? MODELS WEIGH BETWEEN 11 AND 20 POUNDS, AND PRICED BETWEEN $1,800 TO $2,500.

1964—W.T. GRANTS.

SIMPLY HAVING YOUR PHONE NEARBY CAN IMPAIR YOUR COGNITIVE FUNCTION, EVEN WHEN IT’S TURNED FACE DOWN AND SILENT.

1979-1984—ROD STEWART MARRIED ALANA HAMILTON AND DIVORCED IN 1984.

1975—GRUNDIG AM/FM FLIP CLOCK RADIO.