Author: ian

“Luskin Star” becomes the highest two-year-old stakes’ winner in the history of Australian horseracing by taking his earnings to $151,200.

“Native Son” won by five lengths at the races in Brisbane this afternoon. The Inter-dominion series for the pacers and trotters is to be held there this evening, at Albion Park.

Sydney enjoyed a maximum temperature of twenty-six degrees Celsius.

From 7.30 p.m., on Channel Seven, the British comedy series, “Morecambe And Wise”, is screened. Eric and Ernie’s guest is Australian actor, Keith Michell, dressed for the part of Henry VIII, the role for which he is known best.

I listened to the description of Canterbury-Bankstown’s defeat of Manly-Warringah, by twelve points to eleven, at Brookvale Oval.

Venturing upstairs I then viewed a repetition from the series, “Ask The Leyland Brothers”. It takes the viewer to Broken Hill, the town built on mining, in the far west of New South Wales. Broken Hill also lends its name to the large company, B.H.P., which was founded there. The programme also looks at a working bullock team in Tasmania, and the lighthouse at Cape Otway, in Victoria.

From 7.30 p.m., in the series, “Hawaii Five-O”, a victim shoots policemen, at night, from his wheelchair. At half past eight, on Channel Nine, “The Amazing Howard Hughes: Part 1”, begins to take a quite engrossing look into the life of the producer and director of films, investor, business magnate, engineer and philanthropist. Howard Hughes died a year ago at the age of seventy.

It is an absolutely glorious autumnal day; about the tenth in succession.

Nancy Kovack guest stars as a singer under threat in “Mannix”.

“A Current Affair” may be viewed from seven o’clock this evening on Channel Nine. ABC-TV’s Channel Two screens “T.D.T.” (This Day Tonight) for thirty minutes from half past seven. “Rich Man Poor Man: Book 2” continues for an hour on Channel Seven, from half past eight.

There is an article in today’s edition of “The Sun” which states that forty cane toads, from Queensland, that were let loose at Sydney University on Christmas Eve, are said to be responsible for the deaths of a cat and a dog at Kellyville, a western suburb of Sydney.

The cane toad, a native of South America, was introduced to Australia, from Hawaii, in 1935, to eat the beetle which was attacking crops of sugar cane. However, upon its release the poisonous cane toad decided that it was not as fond of the cane beetle as scientists had been led to believe.

In response to Hawaii allowing Australia to import the cane toad the archipelago was sent the tree that bears the macadamia nut.

In the centre of this same newspaper there is a photograph of tennis champion, Evonne Cawley (nee Goolagong), who, despite the fact that she is eight months pregnant, is clad only in a bikini.

Bill Collins introduced the motion picture, “This Is My Love” (1954), at noon, on Channel Seven. It stars the late Linda Darnell, Faith Domergue — whose character’s husband, played by the late Dan Duryea, is confined to a wheelchair — as sisters, who are both vying for the love of the same man, portrayed by Rick “Combat” Jason.

From two o’clock, in a programme of the series, “Medical Center”, actor, Peter Haskell, who plays Charles Estep, in “Rich Man Poor Man: Book 2”, is cast as a fellow who leads a young woman, with a tumour, into thinking he will take her on a trip to Australia. The show concludes with Chad Everett’s character, Dr Joe Gannon, declaring: “Who needs Australia?”

Anne Baxter guest stars on “Mannix”, at 3.00, as an actress who is haunted by her ‘dead’ husband, and sister.

I paid one dollar and twenty-five cents for a two-litre, plastic bottle of Sunburst orange juice; having ducked out between showers on a day of intermittent rain.

At 7.00, on Channel Nine, we watched “A Current Affair”. If this evening’s programme is indicative of the norm then it cannot hold a candle to “Willesee”! John Laws, a local radio personality and close mate of the American singer, songwriter, Roger Miller, is back in hospital. He was last admitted in March of 1974.

A concert by famed American, pianist and showman, Liberace, screens from half past seven. It was recorded in Melbourne last year. “The Amazing Howard Hughes: Part 2”, which stars Tommy Lee Jones, follows, at half past eight.

I paid twenty-five cents for a single red carnation.

This evening’s edition of the series,”Policewoman”, is about a rapist who possesses a scar on his shoulder.