40 years ago this week, March 11-16 1974: Sonny and Cher have cancelled a two-week engagement in Las Vegas. Disappointed audiences were hoping to see the acrimoniously separating couple spend two hours slapping each other on stage. Speaking of marital bliss, “Love Story” heartthrob Ryan O’Neal and actress Leigh Taylor-Young are now divorced. Taylor-Young keeps custody of their six-year-old son, Patrick. The Los Angeles Sheriff’s department filed assault charges against former Beatle John Lennon today over a Beverly Hills nightclub brawl also involving the Smothers Brothers and Peter Lawford. There is no truth to the rumor that Lennon threw punches while shouting, “All we are saying is, give beats a chance!” Making his first public appearance in 12 years, Jimmy Cagney accepted a Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Film Institute. “I never said ‘Mmmm, you dirty rat’,” said the 74-year-old actor. “But I thank all of you who have given me credit for it.” Retorted impressionist Frank Gorshin: “Mmmm, you dirty rat.” “If this offended anyone, I apologize,” Ronald Reagan said today. The outspoken California governor is under fire for publicly wishing an “epidemic of botulism” on the food handed out to poor people by the parents of kidnapped heiress Patty Hearst. Cache Valley’s congressman, Democrat Gunn McKay, called year-round Daylight Saving Time an “energy-saving mistake and predicts it will be repealed. 15-year-old Steve Verzi is home in California today after stowing away on a flight to London. The return flight his father had to pay for will be coming out of Steve’s allowance for a long time. President Nixon’s woes multiply. Not only does two-thirds of the country think the 18-minute gap in a key Watergate tape was deliberate, now it turns out his lawyer destroyed a key tax document that would have verified a half-million dollar deduction... or not. 70-year-old former world heavyweight champion Jack Dempsey is in the hospital with recurring headaches. Why anyone would have recurring headaches after being pounded in the head for a living has doctors mystified. Top 40 debuts this week: Harry Chapin is the late night DJ at “WOLD” and Philadelphia soul number “T.S.O.P.” by MFSB. Who says we didn’t have textspeak in our day?
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