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...dancing and investing in the stock market alike? Wall Street may not think so, but Dancer Nicholas Darvas does. To find out how he has danced his way to a fortune in stocks, see BUSINESS, Pas de Dough...
...caller identified himself as James Anderson. He had a confession to make: a few days before, he had tried unsuccessfully to hold up the downtown branch office of the Bank of Virginia in Norfolk. Then he had read in the papers that the FBI had picked up one Daniel Dough Jr., a part-time copy boy at the Virginian-Pilot, who was identified by the bank teller as the holdup man. Said Anderson: "My conscience bothered me. I didn't want an innocent person to go to jail." An hour later, Anderson surrendered to the Norfolk bureau...
When FBI agents confronted Teller Eileen Thomas with Daniel Dough and James Anderson, Teller Thomas was flabbergasted. Dough, 19, was 5 ft. 5 in., weighed 140 Ibs., had sandy brown, close-cropped hair parted to the left, hazel eyes, chubby cheeks-all the identification notes that an observant woman would make. Anderson, 20, was 5 ft. 6 in., 133 Ibs., had sandy brown, close-cropped hair parted to the left, brown eyes, chubby cheeks. Only when the FBI took both men into the bank-each dressed in the same clothes he had worn on the day of the attempted holdup...
Nabbing the stars, says Walter Bien, head of the commercials assembly line at Four Star Films, "involves a lot of personal ingenuity." Adds another commercial producer: "One time Bing will do it for nothing; another time he wouldn't do it for all the dough in the world." One of the lures is simple friendship: John Wayne agreed to the Gillette spiel because his longtime friend Dick Powell, a co-owner of Four Star, had promised Gillette some big names if it gave him the contract to film its commercials...
Other stars have leaped onto the bandwagon for more mundane reasons. Why does Rock Hudson, the nation's No. 1 box-office draw, plug safety razors? Says a friend: "Naturally, because he can use the dough." Fred MacMurray and Wife June Haver lent their faces to American Gas for a $6,000 kitchen, plus air conditioning for their ranch. Claims one bubbly member of Ad Row: "We can give very high-style publicity. Now we are selecting stars, not soliciting them...