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At week's end Rich's Oscar was back in stock at the academy. "We don't know a darn thing here," said Margaret Herrick, executive director of the academy. "The only thing we can do is wait until someone comes forward with proof that he wrote the story." Meanwhile, Hollywood wiseacres theorized that Robert Rich may be the pen name of a writer blacklisted by the industry for taking the Fifth Amendment about his politics. "The King brothers have to pretend that Rich exists abroad," said one insider. "The more publicity they can get out of the Nassour suit, the better it will be for them as long as no one ever finds out who Rich is."