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★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★ DICK CHAMBER LAIN PEGGY LENNON’S DREAM WEDDING Continued from page 52 : contest at the Fox-Beverly theater. His l mother spent a week fashioning a pirate’s costume and, when his turn came, Dickie trotted proudly out on the stage. There was f a weak ripple of applause. He stood in the wings waiting hopefully as winners were announced. A boy from his school dressed patriotically as “Uncle Sam” got second prize. Dick got nothing. He dragged home, ; stunned and unbelieving. “But, looking back,” says Dick, “maybe that was the challenge.” If so, it lay unanswered for a good long time. Soon after, Dick Chamberlain went on to Beverly Hills High and his world became crowded with other matters. He was fourteen but already six feet, one, “a deadpanned, skinny stringbean,” as Dick describes himself unglamorously, “with long, greasy blond hair.” As usual he figured himself a total loss in the wake of his big brother. As usual, Bill was long gone — to college — leaving his glorious record behind for Dick to buck. Bill had starred in football, basketball and track, was a social sensation with boys and especially girls. He was voted “Handsomest Man In School” at graduation. Dick had no such great expectations. He tackled BHS with one resolve: “I wanted to go to college,” he says simply. “I knew college was important. I knew I’d have to get good grades to make it, so I worked.” Dick got the grades — a solid “B” average all four years. But success breeds success. Once he got in the main groove, it was surprising how easily others opened up. By graduation Richard Chamberlain’s record was nothing to sniff at, even stacked up against his brother Bill’s. He sprinted four years on the Varsity track team — 100 and 220 — and while he didn’t always win at the interscholastic meets he usually placed. He made the “Squires” a lower school service society, and the “Knights” that came after. He headed the Drama Club, was president of A.U.A. (Art, Understanding, Ability) ran the Student Court as “Chief Justice” and was a wheel in “Argonauts,” a VIP group. Quiet authority Still, as one classmate remembers, “You couldn’t say Dick Chamberlain was really terrifically popular at Beverly High. Respected is more like it. He was the kind you just naturally elected to offices and things. He had a sort of quiet authority.” Dick himself recalls, “It was an awkward stage of my life and I was glad to get out of it. I was in lots of things but I was never an organization man. I just went through the motions. I liked dramatics and I liked art — I was most at home there — but that was really about all. Except, of course for the fun.” He had that, but, as usual, in Dick Chamberlain’s own quiet, selective way. He showed up at the dances after basket . . . Here’s a preview story of the next Lennon sister to be a bride. It may happen sooner than even she thinks. In the same issue you’ll want to read . . . GRAND OLE OPRY: IS THERE A DEATH JINX? . . . “When’s it all going to end?” A minister answers this question, this cry of surviving Opry members after the eighth cast fatality. CAN GEORGE MAHARIS EVER BE CURED? . . . A revealing medical report on his bout with hepatitis, by his personal physician. ★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★ SPECIAL REPORT: JACKIE'S DANGER . . . What she and her baby doctor are doing to fight it ! Here is a warm story of Jacqueline Kennedy’s courage and faith. . . . Read it in the July issue of TV Radio Mirror magazine. You’ll learn why Jacqueline Kennedy is not only a great “First Lady” but a sensitive and understanding wife and mother as well. ★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★ Get your copy of July TV Radio Mirror today. . . . You’ll see why TV Radio Mirror is America’s biggest selling monthly radio and television entertainment magazine. Can 6fOR6£ MAHARIS E«e« Be Cared 1 *'“->'>• July TV RADIO MIRROR now on sale p *★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★* 85