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...first broadcast last week (NBC Mondays 10:30 p.m. E.W.T.) for its new sponsor: Heinz (57 varieties). First guest for the picklemaker was wry, omniscient Fred Allen. He was very funny. He answered every query he could get his rasping voice on and, substituting for Questioner Clifton Fadiman in the second half, he stumped Experts Fadiman, Kieran, Levant and Adams with quotations from Philosophers Spencer, Kant and Hegel...
Golenpaul's eye first fastened on Clifton Fadiman. They met on the bus. "I liked his voice," Golenpaul recalls. "He had culture, standing as a critic, was quick on his feet, and the show needed a little sadism anyway...
...After Fadiman came F. P. A. (The late Alexander Woollcott scorned the proposition only to admit later on: "I thought it was a lousy idea. I was wrong.") Adams was adamant until Golenpaul asked...
...beat out a section of the William Tell overture on his teeth with a pencil. Rumpled John Kieran murmuring "where do you find the bass?" tremoloed Sleepy Hills of Tennessee on a borrowed accordion. Oscar Levant, somewhat nervous, sashayed through a couple of Gershwin preludes on the piano. Clifton Fadiman played pitchman...
...your issue of Oct. 5, you report the failure of the plan to give the name Lidice (after the martyred Czech village) to the Canadian town of Frelighsburg. You state that Premier Godbout of Quebec rapped the knuckles of the Lidice Lives Committee, and of its executive chairman, Clifton Fadiman. As a member of the Lidice Lives Committee, and as the individual who visited Godbout and had all details of the affair in hand, I feel qualified to give you the facts...