Miracle Mobilization ’77, a massive five-day philanthropic collaboration between dozens of stars and celebrities on television and thousands of volunteers using telephones, begins Saturday evening, Oct. 15, at 9 p.m. when host Alan King introduces “A Night for Miracles,” the New York area’s yearly United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies Joint Campaign TV special on WPIX (Channel 11).
For at least four hours, King and others prominent in the worlds of entertainment and the arts will conduct a television appeal on behalf of the UJA-Federation. For the following four days, through Oct. 19, an anticipated 6000 volunteers, working in regional telephone centers in New York City, Westchester and Long Island, will buttress that appeal with tens of thousands of “neighbor-to-neighbor” phone calls. The Mobilization is headed by banker and philanthropist Stephen Shalom as chairman. Co-chairmen are Mrs. Jeanne Ende and Abner Levine.
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