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...died. "One of the stagehands on the movie couldn't understand why every body was so affected by Bergen's death. 'You'd think Charlie McCarthy had died,' he said. One of the puppeteers whirled around and said, 'But he did! Don't you see? And so did Mortimer Snerd! And if Henson goes, Kermit goes...
Persuasive Offer. The daughter of that radio favorite who gave you Charlie McCarthy and Mortimer Snerd, Candice grew up in a Bel Air environment that could have made Little Candy a child star any time she wanted. Little Candy did not want, and instead went to nearby Westlake and to school in Switzerland and eventually to the University of Pennsylvania. College social life bored her (she neither smokes nor drinks), and she spent much of her extracurricular time modeling in New York. Eventually she caught the eye of Director Sidney Lumet, who was casting the film version of Mary McCarthy...
...most controversial pundit for three decades. As a name caller he had no equal. To be "Peglerized" became almost an honor. To Pegler, New York Mayor Fiorello La Guardia was "little padrone of the Bolsheviki," Walter Winchell a "gents-room journalist," and Henry A. Wallace a "slobbering snerd." His most abiding hatred was for the Roosevelts. Berating F.D.R. and his family in column after column, he termed the President a "feebleminded fiihrer" and found it "regrettable that Giuseppe Zangara hit the wrong man when he shot at Roosevelt in Miami." He waged a vendetta against Eleanor Roosevelt, whom he dismissed...
...running and thus get $100 a week for 20 years-a system of payoff that gives lucky contestants a far better income tax break than winning $100,000 outright. Host and question asker will be Edgar Bergen, assisted by such wooden stooges as Charlie McCarthy, Effie Clinker and Mortimer Snerd. CBS is confident that Do You Trust Your Wife? will be right up with The $64,000 Question as an attention-getter. Newsmen who last week watched a Hollywood run-through of the new show feared that CBS might be right...
Power. His relationships with fellow Senators were unamiable: he liked to call Tennessee's Senator Estes Kefauver "Mortimer Snerd"; he once hastily changed his vote when he found himself and New York's New Dealing Herbert Lehman the only Democrats voting in opposition to a bill. Despite these foibles, by the time he took over the Judiciary Committee in 1943, McCarran was recognized both at home and on Capitol Hill as a political titan. He even managed to exude power while sitting in the Senate restaurant eating milk-soaked graham crackers...