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Dec. 13, 1983

GLIMPSES: Richard Johnson

WATT WINS 'DUArtie Shaw Orchestra when it reopens the Glen Island Casino in New Rochelle, N.Y., on Dec. 17-18 ... Susan Strasberg and Peggy Cass began rehearsals Monday for the national touring company of the Broadway hit 'Agnes of God' ... Tom Brokaw will be the correspondent for the new series of daytme NBC News Digest programs ... Pam Dawber stars in the CBS movie 'Last of the Great Survivors,' to air Jan. 3 -- and one of her co-stars is Locke the Orangutan.

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