Profile: Gerald Charles Dickens performs a one-man version of "A Christmas Carol"

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Profile: Gerald Charles Dickens performs a one-man version of "A Christmas Carol"

Host: BOB EDWARDS Time: 11:00 AM-12:00 Noon

BOB EDWARDS, host:

About twice a day for the past month, a man in full Victorian costume has stood in front of a live audience somewhere in America and recited these famous words.

Mr. GERALD CHARLES DICKENS: Marley was dead: to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that.

EDWARDS: Those are the first lines of Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol." The performer is the great-great-grandson of ...

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