When an actress [on Fred’s program] The Children’s Corner once failed to appear to interview two local bakers she’d recruited, [assistant Margot] Woodwell had to jump in to do the interview:
“It was two men who were cake decorators, who wore white bakers’ suits with short sleeves. One had tattoos up both his arms. These guys were absolutely monosyllabic. There was this dead silence as they decorated a cake.
“I said, ‘Could you tell me how you do this?’
“They said, ‘Ya learn’.”