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Mencken No. 3.(Book Review)
Marion Elizabeth Rodgers Mencken: The American Iconoclast. Oxford University Press, 662 pages, $35
One of the most popular television game shows of my youth was a program called To Tell the Truth, whose celebrity panel matched wits with teams of three contestants, all of whom signed affidavits claiming to be the same person but two of whom were in fact impostors. (On one occasion, each contestant claimed to be the real-life victim of mistaken identity portrayed in Alfred Hitchcock's The Wrong Man.) At the end of each round, Bud Collyer, once the mellifluous voice of radio's Superman, intoned, "Will the real Mr. x please stand up?" and, after a bit of preliminary ...
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