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Show By LYN CONNELLY TO DIANE JENNINGS, the pleasant pleas-ant young miss who presides aver the department of gifts, greeting greet-ing cards and gag inventions for "BS Television's Garry Moore, the people who watch TV are pretty I !abulous ... Or so she has been led to believe by the avalanche of many presents which they send to her boss each week . . . The morning morn-ing mail that crosses Diane's desk Is always pretty much like a "grab bag" . . . Even after six months, she is still surprised by the things she is liable to pull out of it . . Consider, for. instance, the beaver, fur bow-tie which a thoughtful viewer view-er whipped up for Garry during a cold spell last winter . . Or the bristleless hairbrush which an Iowa barber sent to the comedian to keep his crew cut in trim. Then there are the skid-chains a Chicago inventor designed for Garry's shoes when the comedian happened to mention on the show that. the ice was slippery up near his home . . Most of Garry's strange presents .come in as a result re-sult of his inadvertent remarks on his daytime TV show The Constant Parade Within the past two months, Diane Di-ane has found the following items in the mail: a life-size bust of Garry carved from, sandstone, a heating pad, a windup monkey toy, a double-barrelled cigarette bolder "for getting twice as much pleasure from your smoking," a patch-work quilt, an assortment of raw Florida sponges, etc . . . Understandably. Un-derstandably. Gary doesn't always al-ways know what to do with the unusual things that people send him, but no matter how strange they may be, he always dictates a "thank you note" to the donor . . . Most of the toys are sent to the children's hospitals id New York, but some of the most interesting items Garry keeps around the office. |