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Stories & Games. All the lights in his 27-room Bel Air mansion can be turned on from a single switch, and they are generally left on from sunset to sunrise, for Red is admittedly afraid of the dark. He has the gates of his estate bugged so that he can hear in his bedroom anyone who might be prowling about, and another electronic device tells him when people have entered his property. He once discouraged a visit from CBS's Person to Person show, which he describes as "kinda nosy." He prefers to keep the place to himself...
Raven (NBC) stars Skip Homeier as something called Dan Raven, a sort of semiprivate eye who shares his billing with such guest performers as Singers Bobby Darin and Paul Anka while he works his beat on Los Angeles' Sunset Strip. Boyish-looking and hyper-hip, he is apparently convinced that murder can be fun. The show may have to go some to avoid the epitaph: "Quoth the ratings, nevermore...
...Side when they are not mugging for the cameras, are particularly proud of 18year-old Richard Velez, who got to Hollywood with Sally's help, made $2,100 in six weeks, came home with a contract, and rejoined the ranks on the West Side Story set wearing a Sunset Strip sports jacket, slacks (the boys call them "vines") and wrap-around sunglasses ("shades...
...military history when he got a Congressman to agree to give Mort an appointment to the U.S. Military Academy. Mort Sahl at West Point seems roughly twice as hard to imagine as Dwight D. Eisenhower (West Point, '15) rapping out bi-nightly monologues in a cave on Sunset Strip...
...project. The project failed to win the support of the necessary 66⅓% of voters in a referendum. He also urged U.S. and British church leaders to make Canterbury Cathedral a Protestant "Vatican" at a cost of $25 million, including hidden lighting that would give the effect of sunrise, sunset and moonlight. The flamboyant Red dean, Dr. Hewlett Johnson, said he "had dreamed of a project like this for 40 years," but the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Geoffrey Fisher, called the idea "unacceptable and abhorrent." Another dream, pending since 1958, is the construction of two 100,000-ton economy style...