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...hair on fire. I wanted to do a crazy, unreal comic-strip kind of thing about something besides a family. No one had ever done a show about an idiot before. I decided to be the first." The idiot is Maxwell Smart, Agent 86, played by reformed Stand-Up Comic Don Adams. Smart has little piggy eyes, a voice that sounds like a jigsaw on slate, and a perpetual self-satisfied smirk. When challenged, he is too dumb to panic, bluffs fluently: "Would you believe that I can break eight boards with one karate chop? No? Would you believe three...
...even more compelling. Under President Johnson, the Vice President has been given responsibilities for entertaining that far outweigh those of his predecessors; he must wine and dine visiting VIPs from mayors to maharajahs, yet Hubert and Muriel do well to pack 50 guests into their house for a stand-up cocktail party...
...name was Steve Allen, who caught Vernon's act in Canada and booked him for his TV show. After Allen came Jack Paar, Ed Sullivan, Hootenanny-and success. Last week Vernon fans gathered at Manhattan's Hotel Plaza to pay homage to their anti-hero-the first stand-up comic to play the staid Persian Room in 41 years...
...took off for second, and Dockery beited a fly into left-center field. Leo hesitated to see whether the ball would be caught. It dropped safely beyond the reach of the left and center fielders, but Leo had to stop at third while Dockery made it for a stand-up double...
...Carlton or Brooks. All major financial institutions have their own dining rooms, where financial men daily have guests for relaxed lunches. In their offices, the leaders of London's oldest neighborhood conduct their business in a dark-paneled aura of ceremony; there are grandfather clocks, brass cuspidors and stand-up desks about, and the desk lamps of Hambros' partners were converted from kerosene. The City also has some of the most strictly observed traditions in the kingdom, including a troop of soldiers who arrive each night from Wellington Barracks to guard the Bank of England...