20     November 13, 1952
Bill, Jayne, Henry, Kitty Carlisle

Henry Morgan’s first appearance.  He would stay with the show for the entire run.  Some contemporary newspaper listings indicate that actor Gene Raymond (not to be confused with game show host Gene Rayburn) was to be the new panelist that week.  There is no explanation as to how Morgan got the job instead, but it certainly worked out well for him!   

Myram McCormick of The Bronx: “I spanked Dwight D. Eisenhower” 
The elderly Mr. McCormick was the principal of the president-elect’s childhood school in Kansas.  He tells of five students (including Ike) getting into a real “donnybrook” over a game of shinny (street hockey).  As he tells it, “When they got through, I took them in and used a rubber hose on their rears.”   

Mrs. Maurice Girouard, a housewife: “My father is Papa Dionne”  
The Dionne Quintuplets of Canada were a sensation for many years following their 1934 birth.  Put on exhibition at a young age in a compound known as Quintland, they were the subject of books, movies, and more memorabilia than anyone could count.  Sometime later, the public began to recognize that the children were essentially being exploited by the government of Ontario, but at this point, they were still just a fascinating human interest story.  The contestant here, Rose-Marie Girouard, was not one of the famous quints but rather one of several older children of the Dionnes.  At the time of this episode, she was 24 and her famous siblings had turned 18.    

Special Guest Chester Morris: “I sleep in a nightshirt” 
A ruggedly handsome star of stage and screen, Morris’ career went all the way back to the silent era.  Oscar nominated for his first talking role in Alibi (1929), he was most famous in the 1940s for a series of low-budget films in which he played the criminal turned detective Boston Blackie.    

Jean Lussier: “I went over Niagara Falls in a rubber ball” 
Before Lussier’s 1928 stunt, most daredevils who attempted to go over the falls did so in a barrel.  “Smiling Jean” designed and built a 6’ rubber ball lined with oxygen tubes and supported by a spring steel frame.  After his successful stunt, he moved to Niagara and sold pieces of his ball to tourists as souvenirs, resorting to chunks of used tires when he ran out of the original material.  (Also see E448 )