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TV contestants last week were busily nipping at the hand that fed them:

P: In Baltimore, Louis Strom complained in a federal court suit that he never received the $7,250 home he won a year ago on TV's What's Your Bid? Strom protested that sponsor Charles Antell, Inc., its advertising agency and Prefabricators, Inc. held him off for eight months, then asked him to settle for a $4,600 house. His plea to the court: make Prefabricators, Inc.1) give him the promised house, or 2) pay him $7,250 in cash plus $2,500 damages.

P: In Manhattan, NBC's Bride & Groom, which marries one lucky couple on TV each weekday, found it had netted a tartar in Sigmund Welt, 24. Scheduled to be married last week to Josephine Buono, Sigmund rebelled when he discovered that his expense-paid honeymoon had to be spent at winterbound Princeton, N.J. He demanded Florida or California instead. Welt was bounced from the program and, minutes later, bounced again by his fiancee. After thinking things over until 5 a.m., Sigmund decided he just had to talk to Josephine. He broke into the basement of her Brooklyn home, stole up toward her bedroom and was pounced upon by her indignant father. At week's end, Sigmund Welt was being held at Kings County Hospital for observation, while Josephine held out only a faint hope of a happy ending. Said she: "Well, yes, I do still love him, but how can I tell what we'll do? Time will tell."

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