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17. WIDE SHOT MS LINKLETTER MS CONNORS ENTRANCE. HE JOINS ART MCU CONNORS CUT TO CELEB. AREA. FOLLOW-SPOT ENDACOTT TO STAGE MUSIC; STINGER LINKLETTER: We have a number of celebrities here at the Sands Hotel tonight....but only one of them began his career as a basketball star at U.C.L.A. - you know him today as the television star of "Mannix" ?╟÷ MIKE CONNORS! (APPLAUSE) MUSIC; PLAY-ON; "MANNIX" THEME (BUSINESS OF ?╟╓?╟╓HELLO'S?╟Ñ.. .ART HANDS HIM ENVELOPE) CONNORS: (READING) In basketball, our next winner is the all-time, all-American Hall of Famer from the University of Kansas --- the captain of coach ?╟ÑPhog?╟Ñ Allen's unbeaten 1923 Missouri Valley conference champions --- PAUL ENDACOTTI (APPLAUSE) MUSIC: PLAY-ON; 1?╟╓CAN'T TAKE MY EYES OFF YOU" (BUSINESS OF RECEIVING THE ?╟╓?╟╓VICTOR" AND ENDACOTT*S "THANKS.")