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WHIM A Year On Channel 2 With THE MERRY MINSTRELS T roubadouring is a business with the Merry Minstrels of Channel 2, Buzz Aston and Bill Hinds, but it’s fun, too. At the moment, any¬ way, they can’t think of anything they’d rather do. On the first anni¬ versary of their early evening Buzz V Bill Show, which falls on July 20, a lot of people are very happy that Mr. Aston and Mr. Hinds are very happy in their work. For Buzz, who was christened Philip, and Bill are the kind of en¬ tertainers who parcel out to their unseen audience all of the amazing amount of bounce they have to the ounce. Some performers actually seem glad when their day’s work is done. With Hinds and Aston, you get the impression that they would like to double their 25 minutes at 6 o’clock every week night on WDTV. The friendly atmosphere Buzz and Bill generate isn’t confined just to their television program. It begins about noon each day, usually around a Variety Club luncheon table, when the two of them get together with their script-writer, Seymour Bloom, then extends to the rehearsal ses¬ sions with the Joe Negri Trio (Negri on guitar, Dom Trimarkie on accor¬ dion and Lou Mauro on bass) and Director Vic Skaggs, and usually lasts for half an hour or so after the cameras have closed on them. Aston and Hinds first went on WDTV two and a half years ago with a 15-minute morning strip, and continued the program for seven months, until last February, after their evening show began. Although they’re still young men of boundless energies, the twin chores were get¬ ting the better of them when the boys decided to drop the one and concentrate on the other. The house¬ wives who never missed seeing them after breakfast continue to be their faithful audience, and now dad and the kids can watch Buzz V Bill, too. One of the secrets of their suc¬ cess as a team is that Buzz and Bill manage to find a common meeting ground with the entire family. Being family men themselves, they pick songs with an eye on every branch of the family tree. On their first anniversary as an evening TV team, they have become local fixtures, as much a part of The Pittsburgh Pic¬ ture as the clock at Kaufmann’s, the Liberty Tubes and last place in the National League. A-3