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he quickly got away from the ticklish subject of our mutualproperty. "Anyway, I genuinely want to see these boys andgirls happy because--you may laugh and probably will--Ibelieve in Love and I try to create that sort of atmospherehere where they are as much as possible screened fromthe harshness of the world, which they get quite enough ofworking as waitresses in drive-ins and so on, not tomention the unhappy often broken homes they come from. Itry to give them the glamour and excitement of showbusiness, of fame, of stardom without the pain of failure, theterrible ordeal of real-life show business where so manyhearts are broken every day, needlessly, but that's the wayit goes. Here at least they are able to perform on ourclosed-circuit TV and then read the reviews in our schoolpaper which are always good and constructive. They cancut discs which are played on our Muzak-type system. Theyhave special courses in how to give interviews to the presswhich they can then read in the school magazine. In fact,until it was recently discontinued, our late-night closedcircuitTV talk show was as good as NBC's, with our starsbeing interviewed by a fellow student, himself a star on theorder of Johnny Carson. So with all those things, for a time,within these walls, more than a thousand young men andwomen with stars in their eyes are happy." No doubt aboutit, he was most effective. When he spoke of heartsneedlessly broken (the sort of phrase Myron would havehooted at), I confess tears came to my eyes. For he wasparaphrasing Betty 1-Jutton after one of her many failureson television. She never had any luck, that girl. Possibly