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Dennis Donovan

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1. Mr Seymour didn't smoke cigarettes

Reply to underpants (Original post)

Tue Aug 27, 2019, 09:58 AM

Aug 2019

From the Wikipedia article linked in the OP:

Because Seymour smoked a pipe rather than cigarettes, the show's sponsor, R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company gave him a can of Prince Albert pipe tobacco instead of the usual prize of a carton of Winston cigarettes.

Good thing - he might've smoked that free carton and died!

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I've Got A Secret - witness to Lincoln assassination TV appearance [View all] underpants Aug 2019 OP

Mr Seymour didn't smoke cigarettes Dennis Donovan Aug 2019 #1

Yes I read that. underpants Aug 2019 #2

I assume they also paid for the transportation and lodging? Dennis Donovan Aug 2019 #5

They paid transport, lodging and site seeing rpannier Aug 2019 #11

Thanks for posting that! nt FoxNewsSucks Aug 2019 #3

Poignant and sort of a blessing that as 5 yo, he didn't realize the President had been shot... hlthe2b Aug 2019 #4

As a guy with a second hand smoke caused cancer who spent the fifties and ... marble falls Aug 2019 #7

Yeah. LOTS of cigarettes underpants Aug 2019 #8

What were the odds that "I've Got A Secret" could get 3 guys named Seymour ... marble falls Aug 2019 #6

This is why historical documentaries are so important. cab67 Aug 2019 #9

You probably know this but John Tyler's (born 1790) has two GRANDsons still alive underpants Aug 2019 #10

That is remarkable. PCIntern Aug 2019 #12

I recall listening to 2naSalit Sep 2019 #13