35     April 30, 1953
Bill, Jayne, Henry, Laraine Day

Paul Smith of Palmerton, PA: “I made a speech at a nudist’s convention” 
Palmerton was home to the Sunny Rest Camp Lodge, where several hundred guests to the annual nudist convention gathered to hear a welcome from Mayor Smith.  The convention ended with the crowning of a beauty queen known as Miss Sun Tan.   

Special Guest Leo Durocher: “The panel’s picture will be upside down throughout this game” 
Through fairly simple technical wizardry, even for the time, the camera pointed at the panel has its image flipped, so the panel appears to be hanging from the ceiling.  The audience can see the trick on their monitors while the panel tries to understand what’s so funny.  Durocher played baseball for many years but left his mark as a manager for several teams, primarily the Brooklyn Dodgers (for a while as a player-manager) and, at the time of this appearance, the rival New York Giants. Fiery and prone to ejections, “Leo the Lip” is credited with the line “Nice Guys Finish Last,” which he used as the title of his memoir.  As the show was quick to point out at any opportunity, Durocher and panelist Laraine Day are married.   

Donald Kenneth from Leominster, MS: “I was freed by the Reds in the Korean P.W. exchange” 
The reveal of the Secret results in sustained applause from the audience, and again after Henry’s quick solve.  The release of Korean POWs had been a major news story for days, and Corporal Donald Kenneth Legay (the show withheld his last name to try to fool the panel), among the first to reach American soil, had only arrived in town hours earlier.  Legay is showered with gifts, including a television set, season tickets to the Red Sox (courtesy of Durocher) and the unprecedented amount – by Secret standards – of $260 dollars in prize money.   

Mrs. Carl Dudeck from Somerville, NJ: “My house is stranded in the middle of the street” 
With extended time taken on Durocher and Corporal Legay, Mrs. Dudek hardly has time to play, much less to explain that workers were moving her large house to a new location, but had to abandon the task because the telephone crews needed to splice lines blocking the path had gone on strike.  The house spent 34 days stranded in the street a half mile from its eventual destination.