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Don't forget that I had been married to a movie star briefly, and it burned me when they pushed me aside to get her autograph--so it was rather fun when I became the big attraction;

You were going to tell a story about Dorothy Kilgallen I think.

Well, the next person who disappeared from this show was Mr. Hal Block. He was the only one that needed it. This is the unfortunate part. Arlene was a well-known actress and had a radio show of her own. She still has. John Daly was the head of ABC's news department and a wellknown man. I was a very successful publisher. So there we were, but Hal Block needed “What's My Line?" It was his only job. So he was the one that was tense and nervous. He was a very vulgar fellow, and he continuously said things that he shouldn't have said.

It was a family program.

It was a family program and very popular with church people. They would come home from church just in time to watch “What's My Line?", turn on the news, and then go to bed. So we had an enormous audience of respectable, conventional people all over the United States.

They resented Hal Block. He had a habit of asking a