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Pickup Girls on NBC Show Reporters Describe Unusual Casting
A segment from a New York NBC dressing room features four "runner-downers" who describe recruiting oddball participants for a TV bit. They seek sailors, soldiers, or blondes and even an ornithologist who can whistle, a Swahili speaker, and a ambidextrous writer. Compensation is $20 and nationwide exposure, with-upon request-a plan to approach men on the street in five seconds.
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New York
Mery Griffin
NBC
Jack Paar
Svat
Anne Nixon
Leni Epstein
Susan Wright
Merv
China
Mery
Beldon Katteman
el Rancho Vegas
Ed Sullivan
Cbs-Tv
Marla Lewis
Thurber Carnival
Comedienne
Alice Ghostley
Ll Spiel
Brasserie
Gary Merrill
Bermuda
Wilson
Elizabeth Alen
Gerry Mulligan
Judy Holliday
Jennie Grossinger
Concord
Conway Twitty
Marianna
Ark