Radio: For Richer or Poorer

TV Producer John Nelson, 36, has received more than 70,000 letters from lovers young & old. They write him about their romances in the hope that Nelson and his partners, John Reddy and John Masterson, will select them to be married on Bride & Groom (weekdays, 10:30 a.m., CBS-TV) before an estimated TV audience of more than 2,000,000 enraptured housewives.

Fearful that his show may be taken over by exhibitionists, Nelson makes every effort to select the soundest applicants from his flood of mail. During the six years that the show has been on radio & TV, the grooms have included an...

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