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February, 1965

A couple of millenniums ago, a serious writer in financial straits must have said, "I'll grind out just this one potboiler for the mob and then I'll have enough drachmas to settle down and write the great Greek novel." In 1963, American writer Merle Miller succumbed to the same dream, with English subtitles, and began grinding out a pilot-film script for CBS Television. What followed is recounted with savage humor, bitter humor, sardonic humor and funny humor in Only You, Dick Daring!...