Word: kidding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When a scruffy, red-haired kid of 15 left town 35 years ago, no one took much note, but last week 35,000 lined the streets of Vincennes, Ind. (pop. 18,000), to honor the return of "Comedian, Philanthropist, Hoosier" Red Skelton, 50. There was an honorary degree from Vincennes University, a distinguished citizenship award and, best of all, a $1,800,000 bridge over the Wabash named for him. "All right, everybody off my bridge," cried a delighted Red at the dedication. He had learned to swim in the Wabash, he said, "and boy, it was stuffy in that...
...throwback to the era of the stand-up comedian, the school that thought a comic was a gagman, not an actor, and any joke that couldn't be told in one breath couldn't be funny. Kahane sprays his BBs in all directions. "In kindergarten, my kid flunked clay ... I love children, I went to school with them . . . Our dog is adopted. My wife and I couldn't have one . . My brother-in-law? Something's wrong when a guy tries to take his pants off over his head and makes...
...Pentagon's research and development chief, Dr. Harold Brown, a 36-year-old Whiz Kid who ran the Livermore Lab at 33, challenged Teller, noted that while he was "a dear personal friend of Edward's, in this case I disagree with him." But Lewis Strauss, Dwight Eisenhower's Atomic Energy Commission chairman for five years, seconded Teller. The treaty is "a clay pigeon," he said. "It is made to be breached. I think it will be breached to our disadvantage...
...apiece. Sea horses cost about $3. But temptations abound. How exciting to make a pet of a toothy moray from Ceylon ($35), or a lion fish from the Red Sea ($35), who packs enough deadly poison in his spiny ugliness to kill a man. How exhilarating to be first kid on the block with a $400 trigger fish from Zanzibar...
...precision engineering . . ." Besides the standard rock 'n' roll, folk music, show albums and symphonies, Diamond offers complete foreign language courses on tape. "People can learn a language as they drive along," says Company President Don Gilmore. Other Diamond specialties include children's stories "to keep the kid quiet during trips," go-getting lectures for traveling salesmen, and "mood music" to be played in funeral limousines...