Word: noggin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...flapper in There Goes the Bride. Co-Star Tommy Smothers plays an addled adman who cracks his head on a door and hallucinates enough to dawdle with the Twiggy of the '20s, whose picture he was about to use in an advertising campaign. After another crack on the noggin, Smothers perambulates into the '40s. He becomes Fred Astaireical, while unflappable Twiggy turns Ginger Rogersish. Unpadded...
There is, of course, much more crammed inside that Mount Rushmore noggin. Sevareid was among the most articulate, most literate and most judicious of television sages. In a farewell address last week, he summed up some of the lessons he has learned in a half-century as a journalist. Prominent among them: "To retain the courage of one's doubts, as well as one's convictions, in this world of dangerously passionate certainties...
...Phillis, two 25-ft.-high statues in colonial dress mounted at press-box level. When a Philly hits a home run, Phil strokes an animated ball, which strikes an animated Liberty Bell, which lights up along the crack, and the ball then ricochets and conks Phillis on the noggin. Phillis responds by shooting off a cannon while a large colonial flag unfurls from the press box and a fountain of "dancing waters" spouts in centerfield...