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Show By LYN CONNELLY Bod Collyer, emcee and co-producer co-producer of the ABC-TV daytime game show "Beat the Clock," started out to follow in his father's footsteps and found himself him-self trailing those of his mother, his sister and his brother Instead ... He started out to be a lawyer and was graduated from Ford-ham Ford-ham university law school . . . He even went to work as a clerk In a law firm ... He worked hard for two years but was disturbed by the thought that there must be some easier way to earn money... His sister, June Collyer Coll-yer was then a well-known movie star and his mother, Caroline Collyer. and brother, Richard, were doing well behind the footlights. foot-lights. Bud gave the situation some serious consideration ... "I was working for a fast $15 a week and desk space," he recalls now . . While at Fordham he had earned money singing on a local radio station and he remembers that the actors and actresses he met at that time made as much money in a month as he could expect to collect In a year at the bar ... In 1935 he took an audition audi-tion that landed him a network acting part . . . "This marked the turning point of my life," he notes ... "I was in broadcasting for good after that." Building a career In radio acting act-ing and announcing came slowly at the start and for some time Bud languished in semi-obscurity ... In those years, he found his. own lack of fame a particularly particu-larly bitter pill . . . "People were always introducing sister and me as "June Collyer and, oh. yes, this Is her brother" . . The time Bud spent in law school and as a legal clerk has not been wasted ... He often finds use for his legal talents as president of the American Federation of Television Televi-sion and Radio Artists ... He is also superintendent of the Sunday school at the First Presbyterian school in Greenwich, Conn |