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McMahon is every bit as busy outside show business. In the four years that he has been doing the Budweiser beer commercials on Tonight, he has developed into principal spokesman for the company and now does 50% of all its radio and TV ads. He owns a stationery company, a knickknack concern, a talent agency, a TV and film production company and a Florida drive-in store. His wife Alyce does not see much of him during the week, but at least his four children do not have to peddle slicers: a conservative estimate of his earnings is something more...
Heartland, U.S.A. Gala Chairman General Emmett ("Rosie") O'Donnell Jr. picked McMahon to recruit and stage the show because "he can pick up the phone and get anybody." O'Donnell is just about right. Among those appearing at the ball will be Hugh O'Brian, Roger Williams, Lionel Hampton, Tony Bennett, Carson, James Brown, Connie Francis and Joel Grey and the George M! company. At the end Dinah Shore will sing America the Beautiful with the three service academy glee clubs. Says Pitchman McMahon: "That's gotta be Heartland, U.S.A...
Last week Westin went, all right, but not for broke. Come March, he announced, he will leave PBL to take over as executive producer of ABC's nightly Frank Reynolds news show. Westin's new job will probably pay him between $50,000 and $60,000 a year (about what he earned at PBL). The imminent departure reinforced industry rumors that PBL will soon be going too. The Ford Foundation's TV consultant, Fred Friendly, would say only that "no decision has been reached at this time...
...incidents. Some believers, for example, are certain that saucers come from a planet named Clarion that is always on the opposite side of the sun from the earth and always hidden from terrestrial viewers. With calculations made by U.S. Naval Observatory scientists, the Condon group was able to show that variations in the orbital path of Clarion would soon make it visible from earth. Besides, Clarion's gravity would affect the motion of Venus. Since Clarion has not been seen, and the orbit of Venus shows no signs of mysterious perturbations, the scientists concluded that Clarion does not exist...
...Late. Though on its knees, the Post did not succumb without a struggle for new life. In 1962, Curtis directors found a new president in Matthew J. Culligan, a dashing former advertising man who had reversed the skidding revenues of NBC's Today show. Culligan hired and fired, wheeled and dealed, and managed to shore up Curtis' finances for a while. He installed Clay Blair Jr. as editor in chief of the Post; Blair's "sophisticated muckraking" changed the character of the magazine and made for lively reading, but it also led to at least six libel...