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Ernie Kovacs Show (Sat. 10 p.m., NBC). The cigar-chomping comedian in pantomime comedy sketches...
Lines like that numbed the funnybones of Allen's pre-World War I audiences. When he wasn't twanging out patter, he pyramided cigar boxes on his chin and twirled hats through the air as "Freddy James, the World's Worst Juggler." At times he also did a ventriloquist's bit with a dummy named Jake. He had outdistanced the drag-off hooks with which managers yanked booed performers into the wings, but he was still patronizingly tagged as a "coast defender," i.e., a smalltime vaudevillian who played only Boston and such outlying provinces as Maine...
...case of emergency; might have to visit the hospital, you know." In the interests of whatever is left of Anglo-American solidarity, I think you should warn any of your countrymen who are proposing to come over here to be very careful where they toss their cigar butts...
...like my caricatures than I thought you did." In Vicky's gallery, Khrushchev looks like a Charles Addams rendering of a prizefighter; Lord Beaverbrook, empire-building publisher of the Mirror's opposition Daily Express, is a big-mouthed dwarf in crusader's armor; Churchill is a cigar-waving Dickensian comic...
Dual Exhaust. In Union City. N.J., pinched after he narrowly missed running down a cop, Motorist Chester J. Bronski pleaded not guilty of careless driving, alibied that the cigar he had smoked after slugging down four beers had made him dizzy, was fined $25 anyway for "driving while under the influence of a cigar...