Mandatory item No . 2 : This book is about repressed WASPs, good ol'boys, gynecologically challenged old maids, Big Daddies, mama's boys, daddy's girls and crazed women's libbers, all neatly dissected and preserved in vinegar.
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Love it or laugh at it, the Miss America Pageant has outlasted everything from communism to Kmart, surviving threatened infiltration of its ranks by " women's libbers, " a nudie photos scandal and too many fire baton-twirling contestants to count.
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There are no scripts, but Kerr is a comfortable ad-libber, in part because he's so well-prepared : Each segment is based on an average of 75 hours of staff research, some of it arcane and much of it never called on.
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The key theme of the book is of Woman's historical contributions in both fact and fiction, ranging from the early goddesses of the Vistula, to the Grimm Brothers'collected fairy tale, " The Fisherman and His Wife ", to the novel s contemporary women s'libbers.
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The " Sports Reporters " audience knew Schaap for his sports savvy and his phenomenal wit _ no better ad-libber exists on any network program today _ but long before there was any such thing as cable television, Schaap was forging a career as one of America's leading serious journalists of the late 20th century.
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Thomson would have none of it, not women's libbers seeking an Equal Rights Amendment, not black agitators lobbying for a holiday for the Rev . Martin Luther King Jr ., not hippie protesters from the antinuclear Clamshell Alliance, whose mass arrest at the Seabrook plant he personally supervised in 1977, dressed in fatigues and armed with a bullhorn.
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She included renowned ad-libbers in the show & mdash; particularly Fred Allen ( he and his longtime sidekick and wife, Portland Hoffa, appeared so often they could have been the show's regular co-hosts ) and Groucho Marx, both of whom appeared on the first season's finale and appeared jointly on three other installments.
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"I was a woman's libber from the start, utilizing a woman lawyer, a woman agent, a woman editor, a woman publisher, a woman accountant and a woman office manager, not to mention the endless series of women secretaries . . . if the female component had been erased from my working life I doubt that I could have accomplished much ."
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A master ad libber, Allen often tangled with his network's executives ( and often barbed them on the air over the battles ) while developing routines whose style and substance influenced fellow comic talents, including Groucho Marx, Stan Freberg, Henry Morgan and Johnny Carson; his avowed fans also included President Franklin D . Roosevelt and novelists William Faulkner, John Steinbeck and Herman Wouk ( who began his career writing for Allen ).
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Hope started by saying " Why, it's Groucho Marx, ladies and gentlemen ! ( " applause " ) Groucho, what brings you here from the hot desert ? " Groucho retorted, " Hot desert my foot, I've been standing in the cold waiting room for forty minutes ! " Groucho continued to ignore the script, and although Hope was a formidable ad-libber in his own right, he could not begin to keep up with Groucho, who lengthened the scene well beyond its allotted time slot with a veritable onslaught of improvised wisecracks.
