Television: TELEVISION Cut Short

Gypsy Rose Lee, who started her career by getting things off her chest, is back at it again. Only now she does it by quipping instead of stripping on a show taped by KGO-TV in San Francisco. The censors plague her still, but now it is her tongue they worry about. Every time they think it has turned blue they press a button, and what she has actually said comes out "blip."

"The most deceptive woman I knew," she reflected, "even used to say 'ouch' when someone bumped into her blip [falsies]." Today's dances...

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