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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...
...into the tuxedoed dandy whom the international pop world now knows as Tom Jones (the nom de chanson capitalized on the then-popular movie). Two years later Mills took a nondescript provincial singer, Gerry Dorsey, whimsically tagged him with the name of a 19th century German composer and made Engelbert Humperdinck almost as big a nightclub, TV and recording star as Jones. The musical empire that Mills has built largely on the careers of those two singers is now worth between $35 and $40 million...
...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...
...Austria conjures up pleasant visions of ski weeks at Innsbruck, Vienna Sachertorte, Salzburg's music. Few people now recall two important events in that country that led up to World War II and betrayed a darker side of the Austrian character. One was the assassination of Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss by local Nazis in 1934, part of a coup that failed. The other, which so dramatically succeeded, was the Anschluss of 1938, when the German army annexed Austria unopposed...
...become its custom, ABC-TV has looked over its current line-up of shows and tossed out nine of them. Victims of the tune-out are Land of the Giants, It Takes a Thief, The Engelbert Humperdinck Show, Pat Paulsen's Half a Comedy Hour, Paris 7000, The Flying Nun, Here Come the Brides, The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, and Jimmy Durante Presents the Lennon Sisters Hour. On all the networks, the thing for next year is Youth and Sociology. But if you're No. 3, apparently, you really try harder...