Mr. X: “I’m the only singer who dares…to record Henry Morgan’s
song”
Billy “Crash” Craddock is an
up-and-coming rockabilly singer groomed by Columbia to be the next Elvis. He had little success measuring up to that
standard in the early years of his career, though through an odd combination of
circumstances, he ended up being wildly popular in Australia. After a few years off, he would reposition
himself as a country artist beginning in 1969 and would enjoy solid successes
for over a decade. Craddock’s recording
of “Is It True or False (That I'm In Love With You)” is the B-side of his single “One Last
Kiss,” his cover of a song from the Broadway musical Bye Bye Birdie.
Miss Y and Messrs. X, Y
and Z: “We all won Pulitzer Prizes this week.”
Miriam Ottenberg of the Evening Star in Washington, DC won for Local
Reporting (No Deadline) for a series of articles exposing a used car
racket. She is only the fifth woman to
win a Pulitzer. Jack Nelson of the
Atlanta Constitution won for Local Reporting (Deadline) for a series of
articles about mental institutions in Georgia.
Vance Trimble of the Scripps-Howard Newspaper Alliance won for National Reporting
for a series exposing the extent of nepotism in the US Congress. Andrew Lopez of United Press International
won for Photography for a series of four photos depicting a Cuban execution
under the Castro regime.
Special Guest Arthur Treacher is sending one of the panelists to London
on Friday morning to cover the marriage of Princess Margaret for the London
Daily Mirror. Betsy gets the assignment
and is loaded down with the equipment she’ll need for the job. Princess Margaret is the youngest daughter of
Queen Elizabeth I, and the only sibling of Queen Elizabeth II. She married Antony Armstrong-Jones in
Westminster Abbey on May 6 in the first royal wedding to be broadcast on
television. That marriage would end in
divorce in 1978. Margaret’s exploits,
romantic and otherwise, proved endlessly fascinating to royal watchers in the
media.
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