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Aging stars played the same disreputable charade. Bandleader Xavier Cugat, 59, testified that he topped Warbler Lillian Roth in a Challenge match on Tin Pan Alley only because Producer Mert Koplin supplied the answers to him. "Cugie" won $16,000-and slipped 10% to his publicity man, who arranged his spot on the show for the pressagentry value of the thing. Cugie was no exception. On the Question and Challenge shows, 60% to 70% of the winners got help, testified Producer Koplin, and so did practically every winner who scaled the $32,000 plateau...
...these waters. But an old pro-such as A'Delbert Frank Rich, 41, a Cedar City optometrist and twelve-year boating veteran-should have been safe enough. Aboard his 15-ft., red-and-white cruiser he confidently brought his wife Penney, 35, and his parents, Frank, 65, and Lillian...
After 21 hours, a search plane sighted them, dropped a note to a boat, which picked them up. Mother Lillian Rich was given up for dead. But next day a helicopter spotted her, cut and bone weary, back near the confluence, picked her up by landing in a nearby clearing. Search parties later retrieved the hull of the Rich boat, its motor, top and windshield gone. Gone, too, was Frank Rich. His son, Del, could not forgive himself. "It was my fault, my fault," he mumbled over and over, staring out at the river...
...task with impressive qualifications. A veteran ghostwriter for wartime marines and submariners (Out in the Boondocks, U.S.S. Seawolf), longtime freelancer and magazine editor (Coronet), he now makes literary collaboration with show-business characters his well-paying specialty. After nearly 5,000 hours of listening, he in effect wrote Lillian Roth's I'll Cry Tomorrow, Diana Barrymore's Too Much, Too Soon and Sheilah Graham's Beloved Infidel. All three were bestsellers and earned more than $250,000 for 51-year-old Co-Author Frank (married, two children). Whatever he gets from working up the proper...
Technical broadcasting difficulties began last week when one of the amplifiers in the underwater cable became defective, according to Miss Lillian Lang, British Broadcasting Corporation representative who worked with the Debate Council to plan the transatlantic debate...