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Skelton still the same
by Denise Richter
Battalion Staff
He hasn’t changed a bit.
Gertrude and Heathcliffe,
the sage seagulls, still ponder the
mysteries of life. Clem still is a
country bumpkin. The televi
sion announcer still tries to sell
Guzzler’s Gin. Red Skelton still is
... Red Skelton.
Skelton, who entertained
television viewers from 1951 to
1971, did the same Friday night
for an audience primarily made
up of people who were still in
grade school when his show was
cancelled.
“You didn’t watch me,” Skel
ton told the audience. “You used
me (as an excuse) to stay up.”
But the crowd proved him
wrong as G. Rollie White Col
iseum echoed with shouted re
quests for favorite characters
and pantomimes.
After each skit, he asked,
“Are you tired?” When the audi
ence assured him that it was not,
he said: “Good. We’ll stay here
all night.”
And he nearly did. After a
two-hour series of jokes, panto
mime and stories, he auto
graphed programs for a crowd
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of fans that filled the coliseum
corridors.
Skelton spent a week here
“studying the area and the audi
ence.” He passed the test with
flying colors as he described
Bryan-College Station as a
“beautiful community — if you
ever get it finished.”
He especially was impressed
with the cities’ road system.
“I don’t know who laid them
out,” he said, “but they must be
very proud of him at the
asylum.”
But after touring the campus
and the cities, he said he wasn’t
able to get the sleep he needed.
HLs hotel room was so cold that
his teeth chattered and he
couldn’t sleep. So he said he fin
ally got up and took them out of
the glass.
Skelton’s energy and enthu
siasm belied his 69 years. But he
made frequent references to his
age, telling the audience not to
worry if he stopped in the mid
dle of a sentence because his
mind sometimes wanders — but
not too far.
He also said he has ruled out
exercise as a way to stay healthy:
“The only exercise I get is acting
as pallbearer for my friends who
exercised a lot.”
Every day, he said, he checks
to see if he’s still alive.
“When I open my eyes, if I
don’t see candles and flowers, I
get up,” Skelton said.
After the performance,
Texas A&M President Frank E.
Vandiver “Aggie-ized” Skelton
by giving him a maroon cowboy
hat.
“Can you think of anyone
we’d be prouder to have wear
this than Red?” Vandiver asked.
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Coach Jackie Sherrill tried to re
cruit Skelton for the game
against Texas Tech University
by giving him a personalized
Aggie jersey.
“Kickoff’s at 2:45,” Sherrill
said. “We expect you to report
and we’ll play you.”
In addition, Skelton was
named an honorary member of
the 12th Man and an associate
member of the Association of
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