30 Friday, December 21, 1979 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Danny Raskin's LISTENIN G POST • KUDOS ... to the courteous ways employees are showing at the Kroger super market on Nine Mile and Greenfield. SAM TANENHAUS has his second Harvard Shop opened in Tel-12 Shopping Center, Telegraph and 12 Mile . . . Operation number one is still on Southfield in the Sears-Southfield Plaza. CHUCK KOPEL is wearing suspenders for the first time .. . Lost 201/2 pounds and discovered he had to buy a pair on his way to work at Al Kay Jewelers on Southfield . . . Chuck has 60 pounds yet to go ... and then it'll take a lot more than suspenders to hold his pants up. IRV LEWIS, probably one of the finest trumpet men ever to come from this area . . . seeing service with Benny Goodman, Tommy Dnr?..y, charlie• Barnett, Woody Herman and others, has noticed the return of big band sounds with keen interest. As a result, Iry will be putting his lip back in shape and forming a band . . . The dancing together of yes- teryears returns and so does Irv, with the music charts of Glenn Miller, etc. TALENT NEW AGENCY in Southfield, owned by Ronnie Burton, is called The Talent Connec- tion, Inc. . . . and she has amassed quite a fine stable to represent her new con- cept in the talent agency field. First time that a group of top performers here, all al- ready highly successful, will be represented on an exclusive basis by a franch- ised AliTHA and SAG agent . . . Included are Sonny Eliot, Liz Weiss, EZI'l Hag- gart, Rube Weiss, Jack McCarthy, Hugh Cooland and Mary T • others. Gieve amotri For the present, Ronni will offer producer?, ui TV and radio c,:',ITunercials the "cr....ain of the crop" ... If they have additional needs, she'll work with them to ful- fill their casting wants from the Detroit area talent pool. RECEPTION HONOR- ING Dr. Sam Sniderman . . . retiring after eight years with the Oak Park Board of Education, is set for Jan. 6, 1 to 5, at the Oak Park High cafeteria ... and will be in the form of a reu- nion. All are invited ... but a • special invite goes to the grads of Oak Park High dur- ing the past eight years . Call Maxine Grant, 967- 3386. THE VOICE on the phone last week told Lou Sarko that he had dialed the wrong number ..."Are you sure" said the Arrow Wrecking bossman . . . The stranger on the other end replied quickly, "Have I _ HELLO ...from Birdie and Seldon Barris ... now living in Merritt Island, Fla. . . . (1255 Walter Ct., Merritt Island, Fla. 32952.) FAVORITE STORY ... by Ernest Drucker of Executive Custom Shirtmakers in Birming- ham ... about the boy who had stolen a transistor radio . . . The pplice pounced on him and took him to the sta- tion . . . He was put in a cell with a three-time loser who asked, "What are you in here for?" . . . I stole a trans- istor radio," said the boy .. . "That's small potatOes," said the man. "If you want to be somebody in this biLs'i- ness, you ought to do some- thing big, something impor- tant. Why don't you rob a bank?" . .. "But," replied the boy, "I don't get out of school until 3 o'clock." YOU KNOW THE movie is dated . . . when you hear this kind of dialogue on television .. . Doctor: "Nasty chest cold, but he'll be all right I'll drop in again this afternoon to see how he's doing." ... Bartender: "Here's your double-Scotch. That'll be 50 cents." . . Irate father to daughter: "Show business or no show business, no daughter of mine is going on stage with bare shoulders." FRANCES WEIN- BERG is proud of student Ludmilla Vulman, a Rus- sian immigrant who is in Mrs. Weinberg's fourth- level class of English for the foreign born at Oak Park High School. Mrs. Vulman's article on why she came to the U.S. was printed in the class newspaper and re- printed in a November issue of The Jewish News, LOOKING BACK On Columns Of Yesteryears . . Jan. 13, 1967 ... "Sadie and Sid Gray .1 re- turned to Detroit from Florida whether they liked it or not . . . Putting daughter-in-law Rochelle and granddaughter Sheryl on plane, the captain luck- ily took extra time before taking off." NY Blue Cross Covers Kosher Hospital Meals NEW YORK (JTA) — Observant Jews with New York area Blue Cross coverage do not have to pay for kosher meals when they are hospitalized, but this exemption does not apply to patients with hospital coverage provided by other insurers, Julius Berman, president of the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congrega- tions (UOJC) said. Berman said that most hospitals in the New York area do not charge for kosher meals, treating them as a special diet bene- fit under Blue Cross ton- Timerman Defender Leaves Argentina Due to Threats NEW YORK (JTA) — Robert Cox, the editor of the Buenos Aires Herald who defended fellow journalist Jacobo Timerman during his imprisonment in Argen- tina, has arrived in England after leaving Argentina be- cause of threats on his life. Cox, who arrived with his wife and children, said he plans to stay out of Argen- tina for at least a year. A native of Britain, Cox gained international atten- tion as the editor of Argen- tina's only English- language newspaper be- cause of his regular cover- age of human rights viola- tions while other Argentine newspapers refused to carry I CHINA GATE such news, his was also the only newspaper to con- tinuously support Timer- man. 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