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...punctuated by waves of laughter as blonde ex-Congresswoman Clare Boothe Luce voiced the thesis of her speech; that Harry Truman is 'a gone goose.' The Democrats, she said, were divided into 'a Jim Crow wing led by lynch-loving Bourbons, a Moscow wing masterminded by Stalin's Mortimer Snerd, Henry Wallace, and a Pendergast wing run by the wampum and boodle boys who gave us Harry Truman in one of their more pixilated moments...
After his injury, Henry must be taught everything over again, from how to walk to who he is. Ford, whose face assumes the agreeable befuddlement of Mortimer Snerd, plays Henry as an eager but slightly backward child. He returns to his posh Fifth Avenue apartment as if he had been consigned to a foster home. But because his teachers are kind and patient, he becomes a new man and determines to right the wrongs he committed in his earlier life. He is like a reformed Scrooge on a very long Christmas Day. He will buy his daughter a puppy...
...done an impressive job of excavation. Along with the familiar highlights are dozens of more obscure nuggets: the antiquated newscasts of John Cameron Swayze and Douglas Edwards, when stories were illustrated with childlike drawings or photos held up to the camera by the anchorman; Ronald Reagan doing a Mortimer Snerd impression as the mystery guest on What's My Line?, Vladimir Zworykin, one of TV's technological pioneers, being interviewed by former Radio Announcer Ben Grauer in a 1948 oddity called The Story of Television. "Ben," says Zworykin, in heavily accented English, "it is like fever. When the television...
...served 134 people in their new $34,000 building. Last year they took in $51,000, about $11,000 of that a clear profit. Today they owe only about $5,000 on their mortgage. "We're a nonprofit organization," volunteered Walter Barbknecht, who owns a striking resemblance to Mortimer Snerd. "When we're making money and not owing money, it has to be spent in the community. The park needs some equipment. And we just voted $1,000 to a feller that had a heart-bypass operation...
...looks as if Washington is in for another McCarthy era. "I'm taking the kids' back to the Smithsonian later this month," says Frances Bergen, referring to her late husband Edgar Bergen's famous splinter group, Charlie McCarthy, Mortimer Snerd and Effie Klinker. The treesome threesome will star at the Smithsonian's puppet exhibit opening in June. Dimwitted Snerd and spry old Klinker will return to California once the show ends on Labor Day, but in keeping with the late ventriloquist's wishes, Charlie McCarthy will remain at the Smithsonian to become part...