73     March 3, 1954
Bill, Jayne, Henry, Polly Bergen

Unidentified retired colonel: "I bought undies for the WACs during WWII"
From the beginning, producer Allan Sherman recognized the Secret potential for slightly naughty humor, especially with a titillating "secret" and panelists willing to pursue a line of questioning that got laughs without going over the edge.  In fact, the show played with almost exactly the same secret less than a year earlier ( E34 ).  In her newspaper column, Faye Emerson (at this point not with the show) raved about the segment and specifically applauded Polly Bergen for her ability to get laughs out of it.  On the other hand, a TV columnist in Memphis found the whole thing terribly offensive and briefly mounted a campaign against panel shows and their filthy content.  He also suggested that Henry in particular made a very vulgar joke that he later had to apologize for, certainly a possibility on live television. 

Unidentified 11-year-old boy, probably from Connecticut: "I was baptized by Jayne Meadows' father"
The Rev Francis James Meadows Cotter and his wife Ida were Episcopal missionaries in China when Jayne was born in 1919.  (Jayne and sister Audrey took the family middle name as their professional stage names.)  Rev Cotter and his wife spent 13 years in China, eventually fleeing in 1927 amid growing warfare there.  In 1935, Rev Cotter became rector of Christ Church in Sharon, Connecticut, a position he would keep until his retirement in 1957.

Special guest Ralph Bellamy squirts water down someone's neck during the panel's questioning.
Bellamy was a solid character actor who typically played the second lead in movies, often cast as the rich but dull character who in the end loses the girl to the film's star.  He would gain acclaim, and a Tony Award, for his portrayal of FDR in the stage (1958) and film productions of Sunrise at  Campobello  (1960). Later generations saw his lighter side as one of the Duke Brothers in Trading Places (1983).  Off screen he was known as a fierce fighter for the rights of actors.  He was one of the founders of the Screen Actors Guild and served four terms as the president of Actors Equity (representing live theater) from 1952 until 1964.  It was for that work as much as for his acting roles that he would receive an honorary Academy Award in 1987.