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...language to bully, bluster and bewilder, spewed insults, non sequiturs, puns, and-when he turned to Panelist Harriet Van Home, pretty, blonde TV critic for New York City's World-Telegram and Sun-leers. In a calm moment, he gargled a bit from lolanthe. When Moderator Bergen Evans despaired of getting either silence or a straight answer from Expert Marx, and announced: "I'll go straight to Miss Van Home; I've already beaten her down," Groucho hoisted his eyebrows and cracked: "Who wouldn't? I'd like to go straight to Miss Van Home...
...auditioning local talent, came up with bongo beaters, a singing quartet and a dancer named Tybee Afra who hails from the New York borsch belt. At the poolside near Gambler Meyer Lansky's cabana, in the lobby and the casino. Allen & Co. and Guests Lou Costello and Edgar Bergen rehearsed in doubletalk ("Did you put the bird in the creen?") to keep their gags fresh for the bystanders who would later form their audience...
Like its successful parent, Truth trades more on parlor fun than private largesse, encouraging its 25 million viewers to get their vicarious thrills by playing Hawkshaw at home. The trick is for the panel of four (Polly Bergen, Kitty Carlisle, Ralph Bellamy, Hy Gardner) and home viewers to tell the real McCoy from a trio that includes two impostors or "side men." Each of the panelists is permitted a few questions to separate the cheats from the right chap, but the liars usually put on a more convincing act than the real item or "central character," and their own occupations...
...Democratic Party. An upset here would prove to Republicans all over the country that it can be done." On the chance that it could, Nixon toured seven key counties, made eight full-dress speeches, shook as many hands as he could reach (2,000 in 90 minutes in Bergen County), even inspired 3,000 students who turned out of Atlantic City High School to give him a rousing "Three-Rah Nixon...
...even grander scale, he has accused Meyner of permitting "a complete breakdown at the state level in the law enforcement machinery," and has hinted darkly that the administration is covering up a "major garbage collection scandal" in Bergen County until the election is over...