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Show Business & TV profiles British Star Maker Gordon Mills, mentor, manager and name giver to Tom Jones, Engelbert Humperdinck and, most recently, Gilbert O'Sullivan. A more serious name game is being conducted in France, where an unusual set of laws encourages name changes for people whose surnames have unpleasant connotations. World's story tells how the system works. Science, meanwhile, reports on Air Force plans to develop a remote-controlled robot airplane that may one day fly actual combat missions...
...prove that he can turn the same trick with even less promising raw material, Mills recently unveiled as his latest protege one Raymond O'Sullivan, 25, an Irish ex-postal clerk. His new name is-of course-Gilbert O'Sullivan. Mills admits that O'Sullivan has terrible diction, little rapport with women, and has never set foot on a stage. Despite all that, Gilbert O'Sullivan currently has the No. 1 hit single in the U.S. with Alone Again (Naturally). Last week the effusively bittersweet ballad was making the biggest sweep of Top 40 radio stations...
...recording studio, Mills exerted the same close supervision that he lavished on Tom and Engelbert, acting as producer at every session and approving every arrangement. It was not necessary to search for songs, as he does for Tom and Engelbert, because Gilbert writes his own. But when Gilbert begins to make concert appearances this fall, Mills will be giving his customary attention to every last detail both in front of and behind the footlights...
Sameness was not an enemy in convention hall. Gilbert Carmichael, who sells Volkswagens in Meridian, Miss., bakes a potato and fries a steak out in the backyard under a big old magnolia tree most Saturday nights "just like everybody else," and Alvin Berg, from McClusky, N. Dak., an undertaker, reads the daily newspapers (no books) and uses his spare time to pursue the walleyed pike in Brush Lake just like so many of his neighbors...
...imagination and creativity as to the exercise of intelligence. However it is regarded, and however long or short a time the current worldwide flurry of interest in chess persists, the game will go on. It has endured for 1,400 years, and will outlive all the theorists. ∎Gilbert Cant...