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and government pension plans in 1966 (latest year for
which figures are available) jumped more than 1.9 million
—by far the biggest increase in more than 10 years, ac
cording to Institute of Life Insurance statistics. Figures do
not include Social Security. Private plans of all types
accounted for more than 70 per cent of the 1966 gain.
About 42 million persons, or nearly half of the nation's
civilian work force, are now enrolled in pension plans,
which means the number of persons covered has doubled
since the early 19505.
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TV CAMEOS: Ed Ama
Ed Ames Decides, One Redskin Is Enough
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THE ONE-TIME tennis champion of Teaneck,
New Jersey has his sights set on two new goals
—(a) directing, in the theater or movies, and
(b) setting up his own television program, a la
Dean Martin , . . and only the meet foolish
among us will bet against it.
Our hero Is Ed Ames, the husky, dark-haired
half-breed Mingo of TV’s “Daniel Boone” for
four years—and he has such a history of ac
complishing what he sets out to do that, Char
ley, you just wouldn’t believe.
First, of course, there were the Ames Broth
ers (for a change, with singing groups, they
ARE brothers). Ed spear-headed them to fame
and fortune as lead singer and soloist. Then in
1961, he decided he wanted to act—so he quit
cold. He shelved one totally successful endeavor
for a profession that is, at best, precarious.
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IT WASN’T EASY—“Failure and I lived to
gether for a couple of years,” he says—but he
made it He went to acting classes from 8 a.m.
to 2 a.m., more or less regularly, attended per
formances of every show on or off Broadway,
and finally landed a role in an off-B production
of "The Crucible.”
Ed went up fairly swiftly, once his foot
was in the doorway. He played the lead in the
road troupe of "Carnival," then took over for
Jerry Ohrbach on Broadway in the same mu
sical. It was when he played a nutty Indian in
“One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest” with Kirk
Douglas, however, that his blood, sweat and
tears paid off. Hollywood beckoned.
“As an Indian, of course,” he says with a
grin. “They hired me to play Mingo on ‘Boone’
—Mingo was half-English, half-Injun, born and
raised in England—and after that, whenever
anyone wanted an Indian, they phoned my
agent I became, you might say, the Sidney
Poitier of the redskins.”
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THAT, HOWEVER, wasn't Ames’ plan. To
those offering more Injun parts, he said polite
ly, “Don’t even discuss it with me.” Instead, af
ter serving a four-year hitch on TV, he decided
to do a year of clubs, personal appearances, and
concerts. He's in the middle of that right now—
and doing it as usual, in top-drawer style . . .
the Persian Room in New York, the Fairmont
in San Francisco, the Frontier in Vegas, etc.
Meanwhile, his records are doing fabulously, as
always.
“I want to direct” he says flatly, “and I also
want a TV show to host which would be a re
flection of me and my taste —but I'm going to
finish out this year of concerts. Directing is
a mammoth challenge, but I’ve studied it and
I hope one day I’ll be able to tackle it profes
sionally." He has learned, obviously, what some
actors never do: that the movies are almost
completely a directors’ medium; they have all
the fun while the actors just sit around and
work two minutes a day and collect all that
foolish money.
Distributed by Kias Features Syndicate
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heaves a bucket of water to thwart the out-of-control fire raging at left in New York.
The fire spread from a vacant building and chased 38 persons from their dwellings.
Sat. and Sol, April 6-7,1968
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Ed wants to direct and do a TV variety shew.
During this year's sabbatical from acting, he
sUll shows up here and there on TV—on “Oper
ation Entertainment,” for instance, and a re
cent Ed Sullivan program where he and Dinah
Shore stole the show and notices with a duet
from “Fiddler on the Roof.”
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ED STILL KEEPS a home in Teaneck and
still plays tennis, but he and his wife, Sarita, a
one-time Cuban ballet dancer, have a home base
in Beverly Hills. If you look sharply in the eve
ning, you can see him jogging through B.H. in
a sweat suit, to keep in condition.
“One good thing about my plans to move on
from one thing to another,” he says with a
smile. "I don’t have to worry about going
broke.” As long as records are premed or half
breeds are needed in video—Mr. Ames has him
self a comfortable income.