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pretty girl, “What's your telephone number?" and leering at her. He even got up once and chased a pretty girl across the stage like Harpo Marx used to do. He thought this was funny. It was because of his desire to shine and be essential. He sat at the end seat, next to Daly, and he was the one who made the jokes.

Gradually I began to introduce some of my awful puns and jokes and Hal became second banana. He also became more and more risque. In fact, John Daly invented the trick of pulling the ear, which meant, stop this line of questioning, because somebody--usually Block--would be venturing on thin ice. Also Arlene and I, who are rather mischievous, would sometimes deliberately ask questions in an innocent way that we knew darned well we shouldn't ask. For instance, one time we had a diaper salesman on. His occupation was very quickly established. Nevertheless, I asked, “Does your work cover a large territory?" That brought a scream of laughter. Of course I knew exactly what I was doing. I looked very innocent. Arlene was a great one at asking some seemingly innocent question that had a double meaning. Because she's so charming, she got away with murder. We'd get warnings every once in a while from CBS, but ignored them. It didn't seem to bother them too much.

Also, when I'd drag in some name of a Random House book, which I managed to do occasionally, or the name of some personal friend, I'd get reprimanding letters. When a