118     January 12, 1955
Bill, Jayne, Henry, Faye

[Phil Phillips]: “My shorts fell off in a basketball game”   

Tom Houston from Oxford, England: “I’m going around the world on $14” 
The 25-year-old Brit was inspired by a speech given by the Duke of Edinburgh to an Oxford University audience.  In that speech, the queen’s husband said that any young man worth his salt ought to be able travel the world on five pounds sterling (about fourteen dollars).  Houston took up the challenge, taking a variety of odd jobs along the way.  He documented his exploits in a series of dispatches that were picked up by newspapers around the world, and would publish a book about his adventure called The Five Pound Look (Weidenfeld 1957).  A few weeks after this appearance, Houston would marry his British fiancé at Niagara Falls, and she would continue with him on his travels.   

Special Guest Edward Everett Horton is "following TV cues with Bill Cullen"
The Fates notes are vague, and the GSN notes aren't much better.  Those say that Horton "is doing different stage mannerisms as he answers questions."  One guess we have is that Horton is in cahoots with Bill, who's signaling him to react to the panel in various ways.  The colorful, eccentric, and self-effacing Horton was a busy actor on radio, television, film and stage for more than six decades.  Despite his prolific output, which included several Fred Astaire/Ginger Rogers musicals, many baby boomers remember him for a role in which he was not even seen, as the narrator of "Fractured Fairy Tales" on The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show (1959-1964).