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Last week the new Howdy, looking more like Pinocchio and less like Mortimer Snerd, was joined to the old voice. "I think your new face is beautiful," wrote one little admirer. But youngsters who are suffering through television's growing pains will have their loyalties severely strained this week when Peter Pixie, a new property of Puppeteer Paris, turns up on a rival station, the New York Daily News's WPIX. The old Howdy, says Paris, is "only good for kindling...
...soon broadcast for the first time a new suite based on eight 20th Century ''folk tunes." The title: Jingles All the Way, No. 2.* The composer: Canadian Howard Cable. The themes: the Dentyne, Adam Hat, Colgate, Richfield Oil, Super Suds, Chiclets, Pepsodent singing commercials, plus the Mortimer Snerd leitmotiv from the Edgar Bergen show...
Wallace? How about Mr. Snerd? Mor- timer, that...
...Samuel Grafton mocked: "Poor Mr. Truman . . . an object for pity." The New Dealing Chicago Sun ran a merciless cartoon in clay (see cut). The lowest blow came from that low-blow expert, the Chicago Tribune. Squinting at the President, the Tribune pretended to see Edgar Bergen's Mortimer Snerd. Sample dialogue...
...damages: U.S. soldiers, said he, had cut down six of his trees for firewood. Officials of the U.S. Army Claims Office asked how he knew the soldiers were Americans. He had a requisition-some penciling on the back of a can label. It was addressed to "Private Mortimer Snerd." Satisfied that only an American could have written that, the U.S. Army paid the Corsican $90 for his trees...