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.
After a few weeks of guest panelists in the fourth position (including Kitty's appearance here), Joan Bennett, Polly Bergen and Laraine Day would each, in turn, end up spending months on the panel. It appears that each of them were considered for a more permanent position, and in fact at one time or another, newspaper reports referred to each of them as regular panelists. However, when her variety show ended a year later, Faye returned to her old chair.
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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