MOTHER’s Newsworthies: The Doobie Brothers, Berkley Bedell, Art Sussman, Richard Frazier, Peter Chokola and Leopold Kohr

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Berkley Bedell, Iowa's Sixth District Congressman, introduced legislation that tried to increase farm incomes,add to our domestic supply of fuels, and help get the government out of the commodity price support business.

Brief: The Doobie Brothers

Doobie Brothers — both as individuals and as a musical group — express a refreshing enthusiasm for, and an involvement in, environmental and humanitarian issues.

The rock group’s December 1978 benefit series of concerts netted $20,000 for the Children’s Hospital at Stanford University, chipped in funds to the Solar-Cal project, and helped to keep alive the late Will Geer’s lifelong dream of the Theatricum Botanicum: a non-profit actors’ training center which gives free performances of Shakespeare’s plays.

Plus, the band is busy performing — along with other top name members of the Musicians United for Safe Energy — at Madison Square Garden to raise money for nonprofit antinuclear organizations. Indeed, it’s to the benefit of all that the sincerity and honesty which the Doobie Brothers project on stage are continually confirmed in “real life.”

Brief: Berkley Bedell

  • Published on Nov 1, 1979
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