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...fall register so far there were only two new arrivals worth cooing over. Dinah Shore would be back, and with her the new comic, Peter Lind Hayes (TIME, June 24). And Victor Borge, a sort of Scandinavian Alec Templeton, would share billing with Benny Goodman...
...Alec Templeton (Sun. 8 p.m., NBC). The blind pianist-mimic, with Songstress Jo Stafford as guest star...
Small (5 ft. 2 in.; 105 Ibs.), bushy-browed Peggy picks up dialects as easily as Alec Templeton catches a tune. Whenever she is assigned a new one, she talks on the telephone with a Hollywood bit-player who speaks the dialect, instantly echoes his accent and inflection. Now she has more alter egos than she can possibly keep at work. Solution: she is writing five new shows to keep herself busy...
...plus-10% basis. Estimated profit: $100 to $150 per house. Ludwig will get only $50 for selling the house and handling the paper work. The architect will get $10 a house. The Cleveland Trust Co. will give mortgages, at 4% interest, up to the full price of the house. Templeton is betting that the houses will cost less than $6,000 each. Buyers will pay $6,000. But they will get a refund if the houses cost less. Says Templeton: "I've bet a builder $10 to a bottle of Scotch that the veterans will get a rebate...
...Templeton is right), the veteran will get a 4½-room, one-story frame house with overall measurements of 26 by 26 feet. Much of the interior will be unfinished, i.e., no kitchen cabinets, no paint on the walls, no eave troughs, etc. Templeton thinks that this saves the veteran money without depriving him of any necessities. But he has another reason. He hopes that veterans will do most of the necessary finishing work themselves. He has found that homeowners who have put some of their own sweat into a house are the best mortgage risks...