RADIO

In 1958, 11-year-old Carl Phillips entered radio station WAKY’s essay contest and won an all-expense-paid trip to the moon on March 15, 1987. As it turns out, the trip was a phony--but so was Phillips’ essay, he said at his Louisville, Ky., home Sunday. “I didn’t write the thing,” he confessed. “Some girl across the street from me, who was infatuated with me, must have written it. I don’t remember a thing about it.” WAKY program director Mark Strauss, who said he’d received inquiries from Phillips and several of the other 10 winners, acknowledged, “Yes, they did offer moon-flight tickets, right after WAKY went on the air. These old, legendary rock ‘n’ roll stations did these contests, and years later, they now come back to haunt me.”