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...before somebody would be allowed to win $100,000. We teased first with a few $50,000 winners. In terms of showmanship, we had to work out the ideal timing and the ideal winner." The producers chose 70-year-old Mrs. Ethel Richardson of Los Angeles, a folk-song buff. For a switch, they decided the next big winner should be a young schoolboy. They settled on 14-year-old George L. Wright III of Manhattan...
Across the Board. Van Doren, whom many a grateful parent regards as TV's own health-restoring antidote to Presley, is no narrow specialist like the culinary Marine captain or the opera-buff shoemaker of The $64,000 Question, but an agile Jack-of-all-subjects. He is an engaging, curly-haired, lanky (6 ft. 2½ in., 160 lbs.) image of the all-American boy-"so likable," gushed the Chicago American's TV Critic Janet Kern, "that he has come to be a 'friend' whose weekly visits the whole family eagerly anticipates." Along with this...
...Washington, the first ranking member of the new British government to visit the U.S. His mission: to talk with Defense Secretary Charles E. Wilson about sharing the cost and the knowledge on guided missiles, which is where Sandys plans to concentrate Britain's new defense efforts. A missiles buff since he commanded Britain's first experimental AA rocket regiment in World War II, and later the man who sold his father-in-law, Winston Churchill, on wiping out the German V-2 factory at Peenemünde, Sandys feels that Britain can be made secure only...
Died. Paul Hoy Helms, 67, millionaire Los Angeles baker, would-be athlete (he tried out for all the varsity teams at Syracuse University, finally made the crew as substitute coxswain) and impassioned sports buff, who founded the Helms Athletic Foundation in 1936, built a $350,000 museum in 1948 to enshrine relics of sports heroes (e.g., the shoes worn by Dakota Wesleyan's, Mark Payne in 1915 when he booted his record 63-yd. dropkick); of cancer; in Palm Springs, Calif. Sports Fan Helms acquired his awe of athletes watching his uncle, oldtime major-league Outfielder William E. ("Dummy...
Columbia's mandatory retirement at 65 brought about the end of Lou Little's coaching career at the end of the season. He had been head coach at Columbia for over twenty years. His replacement, former Boston University coach Aldo "Buff" Donelli, was announced recently by Columbia...