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VALENTINE DAY HAS ADDED SIGNIFICANCE for Jack Benny, Hugh Downs and Art Hern. They're Tuesday's birthday boys. And a belated greeting on his 50th to Dan Herr of Chicago's lively publication, The Critic....Auto dealer Pete Eptseen, who experienced ecstasy and agony in 24 hours, raised a whopping $77,000 for charity at a closed-circuit telecast of the Frank Sinatra gala. )The next day his auto showroom was bombed--but not like Dean Martin on the telecast.)
THE WEEKEND WAS SADDENED by the death of such long-time friends as A.J. Mustie, the pacifist; Muggsy Spanier, the jazz great; Mrs. Chick Evans, wife of the golf champ, and Jack Sheridan, last of the Bughouse Square orators....Friends of Mr. Mustie will conduct a memorial service at Roosevelt U. on Feb. 21....Al Hamburg's description of Red China's Mao Tze-tung: "Public Enigma No. 1."...And Ivan (Funny) Bunny) reports that Dr. Michael DeBakey, on Valentine Day, I