Hanrhphtpr Mpralji Weight and Hair During Her Chemotherapy, She Has a New Attitude Today
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to - MANCHESTER HERALD. Monday, Feb. 22, 1988 Laser sHe *B8 Memories Names in the News Conference center Seddnd-place candidates When ’38 Indians Cancer Isn’t funny would need rule /3 seek boost frorri Midwest /7 won region title711 NEW YORK (AP) - In her ■■SI “ Saturday Night Live” heyday, Gilda Radner poked fun at people and just about everything else, but when she learned 17 months ago that she had cancer she found life was not as funny. "Cancer is about the most unfunny thing in the world,” Radner said in an interview in March’s Life magazine. "But it doesn’t have to mean you die.” Although Radner had lost much HanrhpHtpr MpralJi weight and hair during her chemotherapy, she has a new attitude today. A P photo “ Radner needs little provoca tion to yank up her sweater and Sinatra, show with Kennedy at the 1961 show off her newly ‘fat’ stomach, SAYS SHE WAS LINK — Judith and after eight months of bald Tuesday, Feb. 23,1988 Manchester, Conn. — A City of Village Charm 30 Cents Campbell Exner, left, says in an inauguration, right. Exner says she was ness, her unruly brown hair (with a conduit between Kennedy and mob F interview published this week that she a bit of gray at the temples) has had an affair with John F. Kennedy after figures. grown back in a thick thatch,” being introduced to him by Frank according to the magazine. She has also stopped smoking Early start set and eats more wholesome food. Mall w on’t Twenty years ago, the average VAN CLIBURN life expectancy of a patient with GILDA RADNER Woman claims she was link .. 10-year intermission for school year ovarian cancer was between six . battling cancer and seven months. It is still the E By Andrew J. Davis most lethal of pelvic cancers, show, makes its debut this week. went on so long because I felt Manchester Herald between JFK and the Mafia with less than a 30 percent relaxed and was having such a Divine, the 300-pound transvest need permit recovery rate. good time simply living.” ite star of “ Pink Flamingos” The 1988-89 school year will begin in August, Although Radner. 41, will not be NEW YORK (AP) - A woman ancana and another mobster. Exner said Frank Sinatra intro Since the White House perfor plays the mother of the heroine of almost a week before Labor Day. considered well unless her remis who 12 years ago described Exner first spoke publicly of duced her to Kennedy at a Las mance, he has had numerous “ Hairspray.” The Manchester Board of Education unanimously having an affair with President her affair with the president in Vegas hotel on Feb. 7, 1960, and sion continues for at least l ‘A offers but has so far accepted only “ I knew this was one of the few years, she said “ I think I’ve never approved the 1988-89 scjiool calendar Monday at its Kennedy in the White House says 19'75. but told the Senate intelli she and Kennedy began an affair one — conductorZubin Mehta’s obsessions I ever had that would meeting at Verplanck School. School will begin for gence committee that year that been as healthy and as well as I on air quaiity her terminal cancer led her to about a month later. Shortly invitation to accompany the New be palatable to (general) movie students on Aug. 30. a Tuesday, with a four-hour am now.” admit another secret, that she Kennedy was unaware of her thereafter, Sinatra introduced York Philharmonic on its first executives.” the 41-year-old Wa session for elementary school children and a She credits her turnaround to was a conduit between him and links to Giancana. Exner’s name her to Giancana in Miami Beach. tour of the Soviet Union in 15 ters said of “ Hairspray” in an full-day schedule for secondary children. Sept. 5. a her excruciating medical treat the Mafia. came up in Senate hearings into years. interview published Sunday in Monday, is Labor Day. Bv Andrew Yurkovskv new permit), and we’re waiting The article contained no re ment, which included surgery, “ Now that I know I’m dying and the Kennedy administration’s Cliburn will appear as soloist The New York Times. School will end on June 15. 1989, if there are no Manchester Herald for that information.” Stoeckert nine months of chemotherapy nothing more can happen to me. I attempts to use the Mafia to kill sponse from Sinatra, who has with the orchestra in concerts in “ The sensibility and sense of snow days. If snow days are used, they will be made said always denied having ties to injections and 30 radiation want to be completely honest.” Cuban leader Fidel Castro. Leningrad and Moscow during humor in ‘Hairspray’ is the same up between June 16 and 30. The spring recess in Meanwhile, an official from the sessions. State officials said today that said Judith Campbell Exner. 54. Exner said she now was reveal mobsters. There was no answer May and June, 30 years after he of ‘Pink Flamingos,‘ The differ April will also be available to make up snow days. DEP’s water compliance unit Sunday evening at the Los Her 52-year-old husband, actor their agencies would not require in an interview published in the ing the Kennedy-Giancana link won the Tchaikovsky Interna ence is that I don’t have the rage Staff development days, which students have off said today that hearings on three Angeles offices of his spokeswo Gene Wilder, said: “ Each time the developers of the proposed Feb. 29 issue of People magazine, because she suffers from termi tional Competition. at 41. I ’d be a jerk.” but faculty must report for special in-house .study, Gilda had to go through one more Mall at Buckland Hills to file for other permits for the mall could " If I ’d told the truth. I ’d have nal cancer and wants “ to put my man. Susan Reynolds. He said he would perform in his are scheduled for Nov. 8, Jan. 20 and May 18. A treatment, and she’d be vomiting the air-quality permits a mall be scheduled by April. The first been killed. I kept my secret out life in order so that I may die home state of Texas next season. preschool conference for staff is scheduled for Aug. G. Robert Blakey, a University and writhing in pain. I ’d ask opponent has said are permit is for sewage di.schar^!e. of fear.’’ she said. peacefully” 29. of Notre Dame law professor who myself, ‘How much can a human Achievement award necess.sary. the second is for discharge of Exner said she arranged about Kennedy ’ ’knew everything Speaking skills According to Wilson E. Deakin Jr., assistant has argued that the Mafia partici being take?” ’ Rajendra Jain, a senior air storm water to waterways, and 10 face-to-face meetings between ab( ut my dealings with Sam MONTEREY, Calif. (AP) - superintendent, the calendar was given to officials pated in a plot to kill Kennedy, Had Wilder not been around, pollution control engineer with the third is for altering a John F. Kennedy and Chicago Giancana and Johnny Roselli NEW YORK (AP) - Deaf Veteran actor Jimmy Stewart from the Manchester Education Association, (the Chicago mob’s man in Las said Sunday he was skeptical of Radner is certain she could not actress Marlee Matlin is working the state Department of Environ watercourse. mob boss Sam Giancana while was honored with a lifetime Parent-Teacher Association, and other district Exner’s claims. have taken so much, the maga with a speech pathologist to mental Protection, said today The official, Robert Kalis- she and Kennedy were having an Vegas) because I was seeing achievement award by the Mon bargaining groups for input before approval. He zine said. Wilder has not worked improve her speaking skills, that the department does not zewski, a .senior sanitary engi affair in 1960-61. them for him.” she said. terey Film Festival at a dinner said there were no complaints about the calendar The magazine said Exner pro "The original story she told is since she was diagnosed. according to People magazine. have any permit requirements neer, said that the permits would Exner said she witnessed at that drew a galaxy of stars and a from the groups. duced plane tickets, hotel hills true, but for her to suddenly Radner also credits meetings Miss Matlin. who won an Oscar for potential air pollution created be drafted by the middle to end of least one of the Kennedy- letter from President Reagan. James P. Kennedy, school superintendent, said and her appointment books from elaborate on it after ISyearslater she’s attending with the “ Wel for best actress for her portrayal by mall traffic At the same time, March, after which dates would Giancana meetings, and repeat Actor Clint Eastwood, the there is a board policy stating that if Labor Day falls 1960 to 1962 to support her suggests she’s untrustworthy,” lness Community,” a cancer of a deaf-mute in “ Children of a William W. Stoeckert. the head of be set for the hearings. edly crossed the country carrying mayor of nearby Carmel, pres on or after Sept. 5, school will open before the contentions. he said. self-help group. Lesser God,” will be presenting the state Traffic Commission, envelopes between Kennedy. Gi ented Stewart with the award holiday. And she’s working three hours this year’s best actor award. She Sunday night at the $150-a-p1ate, said that air pollution is not a day on a book about cancer.