BIG HOAX REVEALED
Clothing For Animals (N.Z. Press Assn.—Copyright) PALM SPRINGS (California), March 14. A nation-wide “drive” to clothe naked animals was unmasked today as a hoax perpetrated by a television gag writer. He posed as G Clifford Prout, tun., but is really Buck Zuckerman, of New York. Resting in the desert sun at a resort hotel where he is registered as Buck Henry, writer for “The Garry Moore Show,” Zuckerman said: “I had no particular reason for dreaming up the Society for Indecency to Naked Animals.”
Zuckerman, who as Prout picketed the White House in an attempt to have animals clothed said: “Everything fell illogically into place. “I. did it partly to amuse Buck Henry, but Prout takes it all very seriously. I know Prout quite well. He’s a great guy. I wouldn’t say he’s eccentric, but has the qualities of most men his age (32) only more so.”
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30082, 16 March 1963, Page 11
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