iTVSRADIO LOGS JULY30-AUG.5 What's Happening to BETTY WHITE? Story Pogo 44 11 New Life Begins for DICK CONTINO Story Page 46 BOB CROSBY, Cathy cents and Jamie -Alt tie Wed Seen On The Video-Radio Scene ie bee Wit SCONES More and more people are serving scones more and more often! Won- der why? It's the TASTE! CBS' TENNESSEE ERNIE went home to Bristol, Tennessee, for Tender, golden scones! Butter and an official homecoming celebration and his town really gave him a welcome. JAM! WONDERFUL ¡am . made Upper left: He's greeted by his favorite girl, his mother, at the airport. Above: especially for scones .. .comes right With his parents, Mr. and Mrs. T. C. in the Fisher's Scone Mix package. Ford, Tennessee rides down the main street of Bristol. Left: The CBS radio star You won't find it anywhere else. even turned clerk in a market. As a boy he worked in a store. And scones are so quick and easy— Dad can make 'em! rte tictim HOTEL AND BUNGALOWS AT OJAI, CALIFORNIA Aluxurious new hotel completely capturing the charm and beauty of romantic Ojai. Superb food and service. Every vacation fun BUY FISHER'S for all the family. RATES from $6 single, $9 double. Original SCONE MIX HOTEL &BUNGALOWS WHEN SHE'S NOT dashing • • back and forth to New York aé efee CALIFORNIA for her new show, "Make the Con- nection," Betty White manages to HARRY J. DREWERY, Manager relax in her lovely home. Breakfast Phone Ojai 434 time finds her with a good appetite. ItatIm tile (1 mmer13 ... Lire), July ?9, 1955, Vol 31. NO. CAUL M. IM1iSItY. Pit tlitdlert Et ebb A. IiiMMY, Mtmagintr Editor. tteekl% at 1.0. (ulirornia. 1.31itorlatl °trier.: 1610 S. Argyle LOS AOKeleS (11,01Ho ood Star t, California. 11 • HUH>n o4à 1-len5. single emotes lu,. Sailtseripti .... ,t1.311 at ear. 'ES -Radio Life wato eutrred ...rood Clas'. Matter September It, ISM, at 11.0. Ancele., ler .1.0 of Morel, 3, Is -pt. Page Two July 29, 1955 She's His Lucky Charm They say that behind every man's success there is a woman. In Don Fedderson's case this is more than true. By Jon Bruce spent most of my time modeling. I went to the butcher and ordered four pieces of bacon. He asked me why I didn't just get a half a pound. Isaid I'd come back later for more. Iwant- ed to have only enough for that breakfast. And I also bought just four eggs. "Don was very patient in those days. We got a waffle iron for a wed- ding present plus a recipe book with DON FEDDERSON is one of television's most expert pro- recipes for all kinds of waffles. Igave ducers, but it's Tido Fedderson to whom he gives the credit Don so many waffles that to this for his success. The pert and personable lady is one wife who day he can't look one in the face. knows how to give a marriage meaning—and happiness. "Don was working for a Kansas newspaper in the first days of our marriage and he had advanced to the spot where he was making $150 a \ 0 BEGIN WITH, you have dren: Monya Lee, 17; Michael, 14; week, which was a lot of money in to know Don Fedderson. Gregg, 6; and Darr, 2. But as impor- those days. I stopped working when He's the alert gentleman tant as the children are to Don and we hit that income bracket because J who had the foresight to Tido, nothing usurps Tido's role as a Don didn't want me to work. Yet, I produce the Betty White and Liber - wife. She put it this way, "I had never forgot the days when we had ace shows and then went on to carve Don first." little money. a further dent for himself as producer Rough Days "I can still remember the time of CBS-TV's "The Millionaire." Don and Tido didn't have an easy when some friends of ours asked us Now, Don is a success in this busi- go of things when they were first to join them for dinner. Don only had ness. And he's also well-liked, which married. He was twenty and she was $1.50. On the menu were chicken at is perhaps more important. But if eighteen—and he was making fifteen thirty-five cents and steak at sixty- you ask him what was the reason dollars a week at the time. five cents, so I ordered chicken. Our for the way his career has gone, he'd "Don got a raise of five dollars a friends wanted to know why I didn't say, "Tido—my wife. She's my lucky week after we were married," Tido have steak so I nicely lied, 'Oh. I've charm." grinned. "Somehow we didn't think had so much steak all week.' Along Tido, (her real name is Helen) is about money so much in those days. with this incident I can remember considered such a lucky charm, in We don't now, for that matter, since the time Don hocked his watch so we fact, that Don insists on her being in neither Don nor I feel that money could have dinner out. every "Millionaire" show he films. gives you security. I guess such ma- "The turning point in our lives She just does a walk-on and he hires terial things didn't matter because came when Don decided to take a job an extra person so that no one will we were so much in love. I had a on the San Francisco News—at no be out of a job because of Tido's crush on Don when Iwas fifteen. We salary and on a commission. We ar- stint. were in a school play and I had to rived in San Francisco to be greeted -Tido is one wife who believes com- kick him downstairs. He was playing by a strike. We had no money and pletely in her husband. As she said, a burglar, you see, and I was the we had a two months old baby. There "I have never had any doubts about lead. After the show I was given a were times when we felt like going Don's making good—not from the bouquet of roses and I gave him one back to Kansas but we we stuck it day I married him. My sisters mar- —to sort of make up to him. out. It turned out to be the right de- ried wealthy men, but I always told "I'll never forget the day Don gave cision because from this spot Don them that my husband would be me my ring set. It cost $39.95 for became, in time, manager of radio more successful than theirs would both rings—and Istill have them. He station KYA and also was working ever be." paid for them on the installment for KLAC here in Hollywood." The relationship between Don and plan. It was straight on up to the top Tido is a wonderful thing to see in "I can still remember some of the for the Feddersons after that. After this cynical day and age. Here are funniest things about our early mar- his success on TV with Betty White two people who have found happi- ried days—like the morning after our and Liberace, Don decided to try his ness, who have the greatest respect marriage. I was all set to show Don hand at "The Millionaire," an idea for each other, who are still very what a good cook I was, although I he had had for over a year. Success much in love. They have four chil- had done little cooking since I had (Continued on Page 8) July 29, 1955 Page Three Show Business is No Strait Jacket As far as Bob Crosby is concerned, show business is just about the greatest. And he hopes that his- daukhter, Cathy, follows it for her life's work. THE BOB CROSBY FAMILY, on TV that is, is a happy outfit. No wonder the show is clicking for CBS-TV: Left to right: Johnny Dinke, Allan Copeland, Joan O'Brien, Carol Richards, Bob Crosby, Paula Kelley, Paula's husband, Hal Dickinson and Fran Scott. (Cover photo by CBS-TV.) she swung in from left field, then I'll be happy to see her in show business. By Jack Holland "There are those, I know, who think it will be a cinch for her be- cause she's my daughter. Well, I had those who thought I was lucky be- cause I was Bing's brother. In a OB CROSBY was obvious- way, being related to someone in ly jittery. It was just be- show business helps, but in other fore his CBS-TV show ways it's a handicap. Cathy went to was to go on. Near him school in Switzerland recently be- stood his very beautiful and person- cause she came home with a question able daughter Cathy. for me I couldn't answer. She said "I'm really nervous today," Bob she wanted to leave school because commented. "After all, my own flesh no matter how well she might be and blood is going on the show." doing in her studies she got no credit. Everyone thought she should do It was a big day for Cathy too. everything right because she was It was her big chance on the show, Bob Crosby's daughter.