75 years ago
December 27, 1943
It took Betty Grable’s legs to do it, but the stranglehold the male stars had held over the American theater boxoffice for four years has been broken.
Miss Grable, who boasts blonde hair, and other noteworthy adjuncts, including the symmetrical limbs, was acclaimed by the Motion Picture Herald today as the top boxoffice attraction of the year, after a poll of 16,500 theater operators. The busiest of all film players, Bob Hope, was second and others in the top 10 follow in order:
Abbot and Costello, Bing Crosby, Gary Cooper, Greer Garson (only other feminine player to land in the select group), Humphrey Bogart, James Cagney, Mickey Rooney and Clark Gable.
December 28, 1943
Now appearing at Warners Aberdeen theater, “Lassie Come Home” starring Roddy McDowall. At the Bijou, Bobby Readick, Frank Craven, William Gargan and J. Carroll Naish are featured in “Harrigan’s Kid.” The co-hit is “Lucky Partners” starring Ronald Colman and Ginger Rogers. General admission is 50¢/servicemen and women 30¢ and children 26¢. James Cagney is starring in “Yankee Doodle Dandy” at the Hoquiam theater.
50 years ago
December 27, 1968
Climaxing a magnificent space odyssey, the Apollo 8 moon explorers came home from the heavens today, steering their spacecraft to a pinpoint landing less than three miles from the main recovery ship in a darkened Pacific Ocean.
Air Force Col. Frank Borman, Navy Capt. James Lovell Jr. and Air Force Maj. William Anders ended man’s greatest space adventure and one of history’s most momentous explorations when they survived man’s hottest and fastest dive through the atmosphere and parachuted into the gently rolling sea about 5,000 yards from the Yorktown.
December 28, 1968
Miss K Marcella Patton and Richard Ray Bramstedt were married Saturday afternoon Dec. 14, in a double ring ceremony read by the Rev. Howard Yoder in the First Methodist Church in Aberdeen.
The bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth K. Patton and the bridegroom is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Albert C. Bramstedt, all of Cosmopolis.
The bride graduated from Hoquiam High School, Grays Harbor College and Western Washington State College. She is a second grade teacher in Cosmopolis. Her husband graduated from Weatherwax High School and attended Grays Harbor College for two years. He is associated with Bramstedt Sales Inc. in Cosmopolis.
25 years ago
December 27, 1993
Highlights from the Seahawks 16-6 victory over Pittsburgh Sunday: Brian Blades made four catches for 60 yard despite being covered all day by four-time Steelers’ Pro Bowl cornerback Rod Woodson. He’s now four catches short of tying the Seattle team single-season reception of 79 set by Steve Largent in 1985.
With his single-season career high ninth interception, Eugene Robinson is one interception away from equaling the team record set by John Harris in 1981 and tied by Kenny Easley in 1984.
December 28, 1993
Grays Harbor Superior Court could get national television exposure when a famous “cult-buster” goes on trial next month.
Producers of “48 Hours,” CBS TV’s weekly news magazine program, have contacted Superior Court Judge David Foscue about filming the trial of Rick Ross of Phoenix.
Ross, who has made friends and enemies across the country as a “deprogrammer” of cult members, is one of three Arizona men charged with unlawful imprisonment.
Prosecutors allege that Ross, Mark Workman and Charles Simpson held an 18-year-old Bellevue man at Ocean Shores for five days in early 1991 in an attempt to “deprogram” him from the influence of the Life Tabernacle Church in Bellevue.
Compiled from the archives of The Daily World by Karen Barkstrom
