50     September 23, 1953
Bill, Jayne, Henry, Kitty Carlisle

Faye has left the panel and would not come back on a regular basis until the following September.  During this period, she is starring with her husband, bandleader Skitch Henderson, in an early-evening variety show called, creatively, Faye and Skitch.  The 15-minute show is seen on NBC’s flagship New York station, then known as WNBT.  It would debut on October 26 and run an entire season. 

Isabel Bailey from Montpelier, Vermont: "My father invented the donut hole"
In 1847, Hansen Gregory was a 16-year-old sailor who, like other seamen of his day, ate chunks of lard-fried dough that, even before his breakthrough, were known as "dough-nuts".  The reason for Gregory's inspiration is lost to history, though leading theories are that the center of the dough blobs were undercooked and indigestible, and that the hole proved convenient for holding the dough aboard a rocking ship.  Mrs. Bailey is 86 years old here, and would turn 87 on September 30.

Special Guest Gabby Hayes

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