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Leslie Uggams is the latest product of TV to start collecting that golden egg in the Las Vegas and New York clubs and pubs . . . it's another chapter in the success story of a Negro girl who made it big when people were claiming no Negro could.
Though she's just twenty, Leslie'll become a cafe headliner in the fall at the plush Plaza Persian Room— and, during the summer, she'll appear with Jack Carter at the Las Vegas Flamingo.
"I thought it was important that she not accept any engagement in New York unless she is the star — because she is a star," says Mitch Miller, who's her friendly adviser on such matters.
So Leslie'll do her first New York pub date in the swankiest surroundings, with tasteful presentation.
Leslie — who's the only gal vocalist on TV fifty-two weeks a year — has met President Kennedy and Cary Grant since her thrilling rise to stardom . . . and is swoony about Cary.
"Oh, he's gorgeous," she says.
Leslie enjoys telling that she's had proposals of marriage from viewers.
"One was thirty-eight and said he's the type of man I need," she says. "All I had to do was send carfare and he'd come here from California and marry me."
Leslie likes to tease her father. Harold Uggams, a former professional singer with the Hall Johnson
Choir, about his singing. He's now a waxer and elevator operator. Leslie, who drives a white Riviera nowadays, has moved her family into the Columbus Circle-Coliseum neighborhood of New York City.
"Daddy's career was short," says Leslie. "His voice changed right in the middle of a note."
Merv Griffin's talent is sure not to perish on the vine — it's as host of the "Talent Scouts" show that he's keeping active on CBS, while waiting for a bigger break.
Irving Mansfield, producer of "Talent Scouts," hired Merv to do that program . . . and not CBS — as has been rumored — in an effort by
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