I'm looking for stories about out-of-the-ordinary
doings of your favorite TV people, national or local.
I'll get it started with one that I may have told
before but always gives me a laugh (and
my classes, too, when I show a video narrated by this
man and I tell this story to introduce him):
Source: TV Guide, May 20, 1961:
In the fall of 1960 Don Morrow, about to become host
of a new ABC game show, "Camouflage," was living with
his mother and daughter at their homeplace in Danbury, CT
(Morrow was divorced, but had remarried by the time this
article appeared). One day his mother brought home a six-
week-old male fawn that had been struck and stunned by
a neighbor mowing a field. Don decided to keep him, and his
nine-year-old daughter Donna named him Snowflake, changing
it to Romper when the white flecks disappeared.
Now it gets interesting. Snowflake/Romper was given the
run of the house (he was housebroken) but normally slept
outside except in bad weather, when it nudged Donna's dog
Patsy off the foot of Donna's bed. Romper liked dog biscuits
for a treat, even though his main meal consisted of a corn/oats/
wheat mixture.
Too bad I didn't live anywhere near the Morrows; I'd have given
anything to see this. And when I tell that story before a Morrow-
narrated video, my students always respond with a mixture of
laughter and disbelief.
What odd stories do you have?
doings of your favorite TV people, national or local.
I'll get it started with one that I may have told
before but always gives me a laugh (and
my classes, too, when I show a video narrated by this
man and I tell this story to introduce him):
Source: TV Guide, May 20, 1961:
In the fall of 1960 Don Morrow, about to become host
of a new ABC game show, "Camouflage," was living with
his mother and daughter at their homeplace in Danbury, CT
(Morrow was divorced, but had remarried by the time this
article appeared). One day his mother brought home a six-
week-old male fawn that had been struck and stunned by
a neighbor mowing a field. Don decided to keep him, and his
nine-year-old daughter Donna named him Snowflake, changing
it to Romper when the white flecks disappeared.
Now it gets interesting. Snowflake/Romper was given the
run of the house (he was housebroken) but normally slept
outside except in bad weather, when it nudged Donna's dog
Patsy off the foot of Donna's bed. Romper liked dog biscuits
for a treat, even though his main meal consisted of a corn/oats/
wheat mixture.
Too bad I didn't live anywhere near the Morrows; I'd have given
anything to see this. And when I tell that story before a Morrow-
narrated video, my students always respond with a mixture of
laughter and disbelief.
What odd stories do you have?
