Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: THURSDAY, February 7, 1991 TAG: 9102070424
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Police Superintendent Warren Woodfork will ride on a float behind the troops when the Krewe of Endymion parade rolls Saturday through New Orleans. The parade, largest and one of the most popular of Carnival, traditionally has a celebrity grand marshal.
Endymion last week withdrew its invitation to Harrelson, an Emmy Award-winning actor who plays a dimwitted bartender on the TV show "Cheers," after he became "involved politically in America's participation in the Persian Gulf conflict" by appearing at a California peace rally, Krewe captain Ed Muniz said initially.
Later, Muniz said Harrelson's safety, rather than his politics, was the reason the actor was ousted.
Alex Haley said he found students at Southern colleges less curious than those elsewhere.
"And that's difficult for me to say because I consider the South my home," the "Roots" author said Tuesday in Columbus, Ga.
Haley, who spoke at Columbus College as part of Black History Month, said in an interview that "students down South seem less dynamic than those in other parts of the country" and cited the University of California at Berkeley and Harvard as examples of campuses where curiosity reigns.
Henny Youngman filed a federal complaint that a St. Louis computer consultant wrote $16,200 worth of fraudulent checks against the comedian's New York account.
Jerry Terranson, 31, appeared before a federal judge Tuesday in St. Louis and was being held Wednesday in lieu of $50,000 bail for a hearing later in the month.
Youngman said in an interview from Los Angeles that he had noticed last May that six blank checks were missing from his account. He said he believed Terranson, whom he had met once, had taken the checks from his home in New York.
by CNB