72     February 24, 1954
Bill, Jayne, Henry, Polly Bergen

James Martin from Miami, Florida: "I've been here on top of this flagpole for 62 days"
In a fairly tricky bit of technical wizardry, Garry conducts this first game outdoors on a ladder.  Martin started his marathon stunt on Christmas Day in Miami.  His pole is mounted on a 46-foot truck that transported him to New York City.  He complained that he had to get out of Miami to avoid unwanted attention from "love-hungry" women.  He intends to live in his six-foot-square shack high in the air until next Christmas Day, shattering the current record of 152 days for such a thing.  However, after a flurry of initial interest, contemporary newspapers do not appear to indicate whether Martin was successful, suggesting (to us anyway) that he was not.

Chef James Beard: "I just served the panel fried octopus"
According to a newspaper account, Henry Morgan takes one look at the exotic cuisine and immediately says, "This is octopus!"  Effectively, Henry solves the Secret even before the game begins.  Beard is a pioneering TV personality who hosted the first network cooking show in the United States.  His I Love To Eat ran on NBC on Friday nights from August 1946 until May 1947.  His fame and reputation would continue to grow throughout his life, and today he is revered as a legend in the industry.

Special guest Phil Silvers: "There are no lenses in my glasses...and I can't see"
Silvers enjoyed a complicated relationship with his trademark thick-rimmed glasses over the years.  When he first started wearing them as a young burlesque comic, there were no lenses in the frames.  It was just part of the look he established for himself.  As he got older (he's 42 here) he needed corrective lenses, though often for television work he would still wear lens-less glasses to avoid glare and reflections.  He eventually had surgery to correct his vision, but since his glasses had become such a part of his identity he kept wearing them, once again with nothing in the frames..  At this point he is still best known for his stage work, including Top Banana,  the Broadway show  that made him a star. In the fall of 1955 he would enjoy even greater fame on television with the success of his situation comedy You'll Never Get Rich (1955-1959) which was quickly renamed The Phil Silvers Show.  Oh, and those rims have an odd footnote in pop culture history.  Rock and roll pioneer Buddy Holly wore glasses that his optometrist claimed were patterned after those of Phil Silvers.