Charley McCarthy is in for trouble. On Sept. 3 on the Chase & Sanborn program (NBC, Sun., 8-8:30 p.m. E.W.T.) Charley will be introduced to the first wooden woman who ever sat on Edgar Bergen's lap—a new not-so-dummy named Effie Klinker. From advance hints last week it appeared that McCarthy would find the rebuttal of Effie Klinker by no means so easy as, for five years, he has that of the gap-toothed, apple-knocking Mortimer Snerd.
For years Bergen has been as wary of female dummies as McCarthy is likely to be after his first encounter with Effie Klinker. Long ago Bergen had...