THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS • Friday, February 22, 1985 GETTING THE CHILDREN TO EAT A DELICIOUS HOT MEAL IS EASY AS ABC's & 123's from Chef Boy-ar-dee armpit. I wondered if there wasn't something wrong with me for laughing. But now, he's a superstar. "I toured with the Irish Rov- ers and Doc Severinsen but never took myself seriously. The big thing for me was going upon the stage and entertain- ing. If I didn't have fun I couldn't get anyone else to enjoy themselves. "If you're an entertainer, you want to be the best you can be, and for some that means recognition as a superstar. To me it means being good enough to be a superstar and there is a difference. If I feel I've done a show that would be accepted anywhere in the world I don't care if I'm doing it in L.A. or Troy, Mich. Everyp- lace is important and I'm ful- filling my ambition by doing a good show. I can't worry about what might happen years from now. I have to worry about the next song and next show and be the best I can; then the fu- ture will take care of itself." Coden is critical of entertainers who feel they are wasting their talent in a local market. "Too many times I've seen performers in a local situation who feel they're pay- ing dues until the big break comes along. An audience can sense this and if someone is devoting their time to listen- ing to you, you should be giv- ing 100 percent." "Success on a broader basis would be nice for the variety of entertaining I might gain but I'm not going to give up my family and a stable homelife to sing in front of a 30-piece or- chestra." Ron became involved with the Hot Fudge children's show on television through his friendship with puppeteer Bob Finickey•and spent eight years with the show. "The show is on hiatus now. We signed contracts to do more episodes if the need arose and there has been some talk of re- viving the show for sales to overseas markets. It's still seen in syndication nationally (including Detroit on Sunday mornings) and the producers found it more profitable to • show reruns than keep turn- ing out new shows." He is very proud of Hot "Success on a broader basis would be nice . . . but I' m not going to give up my family and a stable homelife to sing in front of a 30-piece orchestra." Fudge and the message it sends to children. "Hot Fudge dealt with the feelings and emotions of a child: It won many awards and I thought it was very well written. It's a timeless show and it may be back." At present he is involved with his own cable show on the Tribune United cable net- work, doing his first episode last month with Phil Marcus Esser as the guest. "I still see many of the local people like Phil and Charlie Latimer. Our show is a comedy-variety for- mat like our act and I like the freedom cable gives you to do your own thing." He also does many commer- cials both locally and nation- ally including the Highland Midnight Madness voiceover. He said he would like to do more commercials because that would give him the free- dom to be more selective about his work. "Being the kind of person I am, I would have to be per- forming somewhere. The only thing I feel I've lost over the years is that sense of anticipa- tion or butterflies a performer gets before going on stage. The excitement comes now after I'm on stage and into my music. Every once in a while I'll get the feeling and wel- come it. After performing for so many years you lose the lit- tle anticipation of what might happen on stage. You feel that no situation will come up that hasn't come up before. "The only way to get the feeling again is to cut back on performing. I don't want the act to feel like a conveyer belt, (it should) stay fresh and excit- ing," Coden says. "I never want to be nonchal- ant about entertaining. I want to always keep the good feel- ing of anticipation and ex- citement when I perform." Senate Mengele Investigation Underway Washington (JTA) — A Senate subcommittee was repeatedly told Tuesday that continuing public. ity is the best means of spurring U.S. and international action to apprehend Dr. Josef Mengele, the notorious "Angel of Death" of Au- schwitz. Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Pa.), chairman of the Juvenile Justice Subcommittee of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said there is evidence that the U.S. Army had Mengele in its custody after World Wax: II and the subcommit- tee wanted to know why he was not tried and why he has not been arrested since. Sen. Howard Met- zenbaum (D-Ohio) was the only other subcommittee member who participated in Tuesday's hear- ing. Sen. Alfonse D'Amato (R-NY) said publicity on the Mengele case has already helped bring confir- mation that Mengele was held by the U.S. Army in 1945 in the Idar-Oberstein prison camp in U.S.-occupied Germany. He said that as a result of the news of the legal action taken by Rabbi Marvin Hier, dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles, and himself to receive information from the U.S. Army on Mengele, two persons who were stationed as privates at the prison camp have come forward to say that Mengele was there at the time. One of ' them, Walter Kempthorne, said he came upon guards with a man and the guards said "This here's Mengele, the bastard that sterilized 3,00.0 women at Auschwitz." Sen. D'Amato said the second person, Richard Schwarz, a Washington lawyer, told him this week that when he was at the camp he was told that one of the inmates was the "sterilization doctor" who had "sterilized 6,000 women." Meanwhile, Rabbi Hier tes- tified that the latest evidence on Mengele, who he believes is still alive, was in 1982 when the West Germans arrested two persons on drug smuggling charges. One of them, Ricardo Riefenstahf, who had been associated with Asun- cion University in Paraguay, claimed to have been a roommate of Mengele at the time. This in- formation was given by a person who had formerly lived in Paraguay to a leader of the San Francisco Jewish community, ac- cording to Hier. Sen. D'Amato said there is "no doubt this monster Mengele is alive." He said Mengeld, who en- tered Paraguay in 1951 and was naturalized a citizen in 1959, may have fled to Canada in 1962 for a short time, after Israeli intelli- gence had tracked him down. He said that at that time, a "Joseph Menke" was in Canada and it is believed this may have been Mengele. A separate investigation on Mengele and other Nazi war crim- inals has been started in Canada. Sen. D'Amato said that Mengele was in the international drug trade in Paraguay under the name Enrique Wohlman fraom 1972-79. He said that in 1980, friends in Paraguay received Christmas cards from Mengele from Portugal. ABC's & 123's from Chef Boy-ar-deeR are tasty pasta alphabet letters- and numbers covered with a rich tomato sauce. The children wi!I absolutely love it as a delicious hot lunch and as a tasty dinner side-dish. And so will the adults! Either way you serve it, getting the children to eat is as easy as Aleph Bez! 0 % MOTES CHETIM ORGANIZATION OF DETROIT, INC. (FUNDS FOR PASSOVER) We wish to thank the many contributors to the Moies Chetim Fund. THIS YEAR more than any other year, the NEED IS GREATER! MANY PEOPLE ARE UNEMPLOYED, MANY NEW NAMES HAVE BEEN ADDED TO OUR LISTS INCLUDING RUSSIAN IM- MIGRANTS AND OTHER COUNTRIES. Cost of living is up. We not only assist the needy families, we also supply the many Hospitals and Mental Institu- tions, in the State of Michigan, with foods for Pesach. One of the finest and most meaningful as- pects of the Passover Holiday is the remem- brance of the less fortunate who are in need of special help. We URGENTLY request that you please mail your contribution to: MOTES CHETIM ORGANIZATION OF DETROIT, INC. Mr. Morris Dorn, President Morrey Gould, vice-president & treas. Abraham Satovsky, vice president Mrs. Samuel Leve, fin. secy. Ben Weisman, ex. secy. 25165 Biarritz Circle Apt. C, Oak Park, MI 48237 A Happy Purim & Joyous Passover to All 27