Re: Dick Clark

["Bill O'Neill" <billo@erols.com>]

 Around 1954 in Philadelphia, A guy named Bob Horn hosted an afternoon TV
> music show.
> 
> During an illness, Dick Clark filled in for him.  He eventually arranged
> to have Horn fired and took over the show. Horn died a broken, forgotten
> man a few years later.
> 
> The show was, of course, American Bandstand.  Clark destroyed people
> like Alan Freed and Bob Horn, but don't worry, he went on to enrich our
> lives with fine programs such as "Bloopers and Practical Jokes."

Wonder why The Dick Clark (True) Story has never been widely publicized? 
Does he own too many opportunities?  Or did he clean it up in latter years
so the story never gelled?

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