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DATE: TUESDAY, March 20, 1990                   TAG: 9003202537
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PEOPLE

"When I was a kid, I wanted to be a policeman or a cowboy and I got the white hat," Moore said Saturday night as he was inducted into the National Cowboy Hall of Fame's Hall of Great Western Performers in Oklahoma City, Okla.

"I will always wear it because I believe in the good guys."

Moore also paid tribute to the late Jay Silverheels, who played Tonto on "Lone Ranger."

"I had help along the way. Tonto was always there. I wish he was here with me tonight," Moore said.

Also inducted into the hall was actor James Garner, who played the lead role in the television program "Maverick," and was in the movie "Support Your Local Sheriff," among other Western films.

Paula Zahn, the new co-anchor of "CBS This Morning," rejects the notion that she is in a beauty contest with two other network blondes, ABC's Joan Lunden and NBC's Deborah Norville.

"I find that very insulting," Zahn said. "I've been in the news business for 13 years. I'm bringing to this broadcast a lot of experience working in different parts of the country covering many different types of stories.

"I've interviewed world leaders. To reduce it to that kind of battle, I find it very offensive."

Zahn, 34, is the latest in a line of female co-anchors on CBS' third-place morning show, following Phyllis George, Mariette Hartley and Kathleen Sullivan.

Alex Trebek, TV game show host, plans to build a dream house on a Hollywood Hills mountaintop he bought for $1.5 million.

"We'll have to cut off the top of the mountain to make a pad, but that's the kind of thing I enjoy doing," said Trebek, 49, host of the quiz show "Jeopardy."

Edward Koch, former mayor of New York, takes on old foes with his customary vitriol in a collection of letters and newspaper columns from his 12-year reign.

"Always give as good as you get," Koch wrote David Dinkins, who defeated him last year. That letter is one of several in "All the Best: Letters from a Feisty Mayor," due out in April.

On the scandals that shook his third term, Koch wrote to Dinkins: "The most searing pain of my 12 years was learning I had been betrayed by people who were corrupt.

"I was despondent. I must confess, on several occasions when I was alone, I wept. It was hard to get myself out of bed in the morning."