GLIMPSES

Walter Matthau is the Pete Rose of the acting profession. Matthau loves to gamble. “Ever heard of norepinephrine?” he asked a TV Guide interviewer. “Supposedly, it’s a chemical produced by the brain that gives you excitement and pleasure. Addicted gamblers have a shortage of it, so they have to look for extraordinary ways to be aroused. Makes sense to me.” . . . Judy Carne, once a regular on “Laugh-In,” is trying to revive her career. Carne, who has had battles with drug abuse, has a jazz-rock singing act in New York called “The Ultimate Comeback: An Evening With Judy Carne.” . . . The March issue of American Heritage magazine features a picture of what is believed to be the first portrait of Abraham Lincoln. The previously unknown painting of a beardless Lincoln was done in 1856 by Philip O. Jenkins, a physician and amateur artist. It was discovered by Lincoln authority James L. Swanson on the wall of the Illinois home of an 86-year-old distant relative of Lincoln.