17     October 23, 1952
Bill, Jayne, Eddie Bracken, Kitty Carlisle

Kitty Carlisle begins a run of ten consecutive weeks on the panel.  Carlisle would eventually make much more of an impression on the Goodson-Todman panel game To Tell The Truth.   

Edward Zielinski of Erie, PA: “I went on my honeymoon with 58 women” 
Wacky matrimony.  Mr. and Mrs. Zielinski took a cruise to Bermuda along with Mrs. Zielinksi’s secretarial club.   

Mrs. Walter Bush of Concord, MS: “I was the first woman driver” 
The former Anne French was indeed the first woman (in the United States at least) to get what we would now call a driver’s license.  On March 22, 1900, she received a Steam Engineer's License (Locomobile Class), issued by the City of Washington, DC.  We get to see a picture of Mrs. Busch atop her 1899 Locomobile Steamer.  Mrs. Bush’s story had appeared in the September 8 issue of LIFE Magazine.   

Special Guest Elsa Maxwell: “I’ve never had a drink” 
Maxwell’s best-known talent was as a professional hostess and party-thrower, and in that role, she became one of the most famous women in the world from the 1920s through the 1950s.  She was name-checked in songs by Cole Porter and Irving Berlin and referenced in everything from I Love Lucy to early Superman comic books.  She is credited with inventing the modern scavenger hunt and for discovering ventriloquist Edgar Bergen.   

Mrs. [George Benjamin] of Nashua, NH: “I was sprayed by a skunk” 
Garry uses the opportunity to tell a surprisingly long story about a pet skunk he once owned, which he ended up giving away on his daytime variety show.

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