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...pushing sales of Consolidated, Tellier had far more in mind than brokers' commissions. He was a big investor in Consolidated himself, bought 250,000 shares at 1?, got an option to buy 1,000,000 shares at 20?. Then, said the grand jury, by fraudulent advertising and "over-the-counter manipulation" of the 20 million shares he handled, Tellier ran the price up as high as $1.87 a share and unloaded his own holdings...
...Surprise, the show that gives away more than any other in the world. Once, at the $50,000 question, Lenny gave the wrong answer, but the next week, under the show's rules, he was rescued and given another try. Last week, with no option, under the rules, but to try again, Lenny correctly answered an intricate, five-part question that required 13 answers, and became the fourth winner of the biggest quiz-show jackpot of them...
Good Investments. Born in the British Columbia mining town of Moyie (pop. 225), McMahon started as a hard-rock diamond-driller, drifted to Alberta and formed his own drilling company there before the province's oil play began. He took an option on a promising piece of Alberta land and brought in one of the province's first major oil wells at Leduc in 1947. Since then, he has plowed his oil earnings into a steadily successful search for more oil and gas. His companies now own or control hundreds of wells, hold leases on some...
...slapstick as the My Hero series, but considerably funnier, and Bob has an excellent foil for his own comedy routines in his girl Friday (Anne B. Davis), a half-pint comedienne known as Schultzie. Sponsor Winston Cigarettes has paid the bills for the past two years and has an option for three and a half years more. Says Bob: "A lot of other sponsors want to get in too. Show business is like the stock market-when you're hot, everyone wants a part of you. But when you're cold, they all act like...
...gallery of top pop writers with recent hits to their credit: Bob Merrill, 34, who turned out three top-ten hits in 1954-55 (Mambo Italiano, Make Yourself Comfortable and Tina Marie), has now gone Hollywood in a big way with an M-G-M option to produce as well as score five to ten musicals in seven years. For his first, a version of Anna Christie to be called A Saint She Ain't, he has written 16 songs, which he characterizes as "very lofty." Brash Tunesmith Merrill believes cliches are the secret of pop success; he keeps...