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off the top of my head. And sometimes a perfectly innocent remark would get a huge laugh. Like — well one night on the show, Mary Margaret McBride was trying to make Jack cry with a sad story about how she had never had a Christmas tree. But she didn’t get one tear. So she turned to me and she said, “What’s the matter? Doesn’t anybody care that I never had a tree when I was little? What did I do wrong?” And I said, “I think it’s because you tell it in a mink stole.” And everybody screamed. But I wasn’t trying to be funny. I was just sort of trying to analyze it. Sometimes we’d have unusual things to show — new articles just on the market. And one night, after Jack had shown this address book with a mink cover, he gave it to me. But the next day the office called frantically and said I’d have to give it back, that it cost sixty-nine dollars and nobody on the show was going to pay for it. So that night I gave it back to Jack on the air and he was sort of apologizing, and I said, “Oh, that’s all right. I didn’t want it anyway.” And I kind of stroked the mink and I said, “I’d just have to put it in storage for the summer.” And everybody screamed but to me that made sense. I don’t understand it, but people say it’s my delivery. I can’t stand my own voice. And when I saw myself in a kinescope for the first time, last March, I thought I’d faint! Afterwards I was talking to my mother and I said, “My mouth — I’ve never seen such a big mouth. I do so many peculiar things with it.” And she said, “Well, that’s what I told you. You screw your mouth up when you talk.” It’s funny when I think how I ended up with people laughing at me, after I’d started out to be a ballerina. During summer vacations I would come to New York and make the rounds of the big ballet schools. It was all very exciting to me and I think, well, you know, it can’t help but make you kind of different from other kids. I know in high school I kept pretty much to myself. Just sort of settled for one or two close friends. Oh, I went out on dates and things like that. But, well — I can’t say they were the most important things in my life. I’ll never forget my first date, though. We went to this dance and on the way home — I guess I was about sixteen and at that age — well, we got to bickering and I had always thought it was so glamorous to walk home. I’d heard about girls walking home, so when he stopped the car for a red light I got out and ran. I had to walk at least three miles and he hadn’t made one pass at me! Well, I never did that again. When I got home he was parked out front and the poor thing was so scared. And everybody was up and I was tired and bedraggled. Now that I think about it, I guess maybe I’ve been running all my life. Like I almost got married twice. 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