Garry the weatherman: “Welcome, friends, on a miserable, murky,
unseasonably warm night in New York City”
Faye is presented with 40 pounds of
sugar cane from her home state of Louisiana by Paul Thomas, assisted by H.C.
McCalman and Joe Robertson. This was a
response to a comment she made last week.
Mr. X of Miami Beach, FL: “I’m the doctor who
brought Faye Emerson into the world.”
Dr. [Harold
Von Skate] delivered Faye in 1917 in her small hometown of Elizabeth, Louisiana.
Five Mr. Y’s: “Each of us won an Olympic
championship for the USA”
The athletes are Johnny Hayes
(Marathon, 1908), Dick Landon (High Jumping, 1920), Colonel Eddie Eagan (Boxing, 1920, 1924, Bobsled 1932), Dick Button (Figure Skating, 1948, 1952) and Jesse
Owens (Four Track and Field Medals, 1936).
Bill recognizes enough of them on sight to end the game when it’s his
turn. The appearance of the champions
allows Garry to make a plea for donations to the Olympic Games Committee. Oddly, the athletes are simply referred to as
“champions” (or in some cases “record holders”) and never as “gold medal”
winners.
Special Guest
Boris Karloff conducts a “screaming contest” featuring four women from the
audience.
The panel is blindfolded as the
contest takes place, taken aback by the screams after each of their
questions. One of the four women is Mrs Archie Shuford from Hickory, North Carolina, whose appearance on nationwide television caught the attention of the hometown paper. Karloff good-naturedly plays
into his frightening reputation, as he did in the show’s debut episode.
