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Brenda Elthon
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“A girl who's bespectacled

“May not get her nectacled.”

Ogden Nash as a television game show panelist, 1955.

To call Ogden Nash a poet, or a satirist, or a humorist is to do him an injustice.

For he was all of these.

Plus, a ‘laughing philosopher,’ according to admiring literary critics.

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