6     August 7, 1952
Bill, Jayne, Melville Cooper, Laura Hobson
  
Steve Allen hosts

Mrs. Victor Cahill from Washington, DC: “I was the first Miss America (1921)” 
Margaret Gorman uses her married name on the show.  In that early pageant, Gorman only competed against seven other girls representing cities along the eastern seaboard.  The term Miss America Pageant wasn’t even used until 1940.  Still, by 1952 it was a massive annual cultural event before declining in popularity in the ensuing decades amid controversies and changing societal norms.  The 1945 Miss America, Bess Myerson, would later become a regular Secret panelist.   

Mr. Ellenburg from Glastonbury, Connecticut: “I’m on my honeymoon.” 
Fred Ellenburg, a 76-year-old veteran of the Spanish-American War, married 83-year-old Margaret E Beebe just a few days earlier at New York's noted Little Church Around The Corner.  (Some early newspaper reports erroneously pegged Mrs Ellenburg's age at 93.)  It is Mr Ellenburg's fourth marriage and the third for his bride.  Mrs Ellenberg makes an appearance at the end of the segment.

Special Guest Paul Lukas: “I’m going to kiss Laura Hobson.” 
In her autobiography, Hobson goes into detail about this segment, and how Allan Sherman gave her questions designed to get a laugh (“Is it dangerous?”) without telling her the secret.  She would say afterward, “I felt like the biggest damn fool in the world.”  A versatile, Academy Award-winning actor, the Hungarian-born Lukas began his career playing smooth womanizers, but increasingly drifted to villainous roles.  He made dozens of pictures in the 30s and 40s but is possibly best remembered today as Professor Aronnax in the Disney film 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954).