Radio: Birth of a Memo

In Hollywood four months ago, Desi Arnaz sat down in solemn conference with a battery of pressagents, including a man from the sponsor, Philip Morris. Their problem: how to squeeze the maximum of publicity out of the fact that Desi's wife, Lucille Ball, was going to have two babies —one in real life, the other in their filmed TV show, I Love Lucy (Mon. 9 p.m., CBS). Suddenly inspiration struck one of the experts. Lucille would have to have her real baby by Caesarean section, wouldn't she? Then the date on which the Arnaz baby was to be born could...

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