At this point, Toni (the makers of
Prom, White Rain and other beauty products) has dropped its alternate sponsorship, so the
show is entirely sponsored by Carter Products (makers of Arrid) and only seen
on alternate weeks. It alternates with
the police drama Racket Squad. Kitty
Carlisle makes her last appearance on the panel because she’s moving to the
West Coast with husband Moss Hart.
“Young Man”: “I made the only touchdown in the Rose Bowl last
week”
Halfback Al
Carmichael caught a touchdown pass in the third quarter for Southern Cal’s 7-0
victory over Wisconsin. This broke a
string of six straight wins by the Big Ten representative over the Pacific
Coast team, and was only the second time ever that a Pacific Coast team had beaten
a Big Ten team in the Big Game. While
Carmichael scored the lone touchdown, it was USC quarterback Rudy Bukich who
gained most of the acclaim for executing the drive, for which he won MVP
honors.
Mrs. Ethel Bell from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: “I fed Bill Cullen his baby bottle”
Mrs Bell is
not in the studio. Unable to make the
trip because of bad weather, she instead is watching the show live in the
studios of WDTV (now KDKA) in Pittsburgh, and responding to questions via an
audio link, a fairly impressive bit of technical wizardry by 1953 panel show standards. She was Bill’s next-door neighbor when he was
an infant, and she a child of 13. In a bit of irony, coverage of a local Duquesne basketball game ran long, so while Mrs Bell could watch and participate with the show from the studio, no one else in the Pittsburgh area got to see her. (Also
see
E123
)
Special Guest Zsa Zsa Gabor: “I’m wearing the Hope Diamond”
The Hope
Diamond, one of the most famous gems in the world, has ownership records dating
back to 1666. Many people possessed it over
the years, including the 19th century Hope banking family of London,
from which it gets its name. Jeweler
Harry Winston purchased the gem in 1949, and loaned it out for public
exhibitions like this one. In 1958 he would donate it to the Smithsonian
Institution where it resides today in the National Museum of Natural
History. Zsa Zsa is in town to promote
her film Moulin Rouge (1952).
Mrs. George Scott: “I live in the zoo”
Mrs. Scott’s
husband is in charge of the bird house at the Bronx Zoo, and they live in an
apartment on the property.
This site was created with the Nicepage