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Show I j By INEZ GERHARD D' ON MacLAUGHLIN, who has the lead in NBC's "Counterspy" and stars as "Dr. Jim Brent" in "The Road of Life", is probably the only man in show business who got his start in the role of a horse. He had staked everything on making a success of acting, he'd .got a small part on a network show and it was cut during rehearsal. re-hearsal. Don was assigned to help the sound effects man, and wound up by portraying a neighing horse. Si I , ! DON MACLAUGHLIN His first year's work netted him just $22.50. However, once he made his dent in radio the impression became permanent. Born and educated edu-cated in Ohio, he's called "The man with the typical American voice." "Mr. and Mrs. North", now In their 8th year on CBS Radio, with Alice Frost and Joe Curtin starring, have a comedy mystery mys-tery sketch set for Dec. 11. Involving the murder of a safecracker, safe-cracker, they call it "Each . Dawn I Dial"! Bess Myerson, former Miss America, has been doing fine on her own little television show. Now Walt Framer, producer of "Strike It Rich", has plans. Wants to star her in "The Big Payoff", a fashion quiz show, in which "the woman in a person's life" mother, schoolteacher, school-teacher, wife, sweetheart, sister can win all sorts of clothes, the big payoff being a mink coat. Rock Hudson, young Universal-International Universal-International actor who has been singled out for the same type of build-up that sent Tony Curtis soaring to stardom, gets his biggest big-gest break opposite Yvonne De Carlo in "Scarlet Angel." |