John Bartlett, a college professor at Rutgers
University: “I was a cow milking champion”
Bartlett is identified after the game
as the head of the School of Agriculture at Rutgers. Today, a building on the New Brunswick campus
of Rutgers University is named in his honor.
Robert Schenk of New Jersey: “I am married to
Mrs. America of 1953”
The
Mrs. America Pageant was a beauty competition conceived in 1936 as a
promotional event for the Palisades Amusement Park in New Jersey, and Evelyn
Joyce Schenk was its 1953 champion.
Participants were judged not only on their looks and personality, but on
such skills as cooking, sewing, ironing, and party preparation. The original program ended in 1969. A new pageant, in which the winner goes on to
compete in Mrs. World, started in 1977 and is active today.
Special Guest Maxie Rosenbloom: “I’m taking
ballet lessons”
“Slapsie Maxie” Rosenbloom was a world
champion light heavyweight boxer of the 1930s who retired from the ring in 1939
after taking, by some accounts, thousands of punches to the head. Following his boxing career, he parlayed his
lovable, punch-drunk personality (which was almost certainly not entirely an
act) into a second career as an actor, television personality and nightclub
owner.
Matthew Joel Guy of Brooklyn (a child): “I hid
grandma’s teeth in my toy chest”
Seven-year-old Mr. Guy would grow up
to be a gastroenterologist. (Seriously!)
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