Garry the Weatherman: “Welcome, friends…on just a magnificent
night in New York City. The entire city
is just covered with a beautiful five inch blanket of slush.”
Mrs. Robert Precht of Washington, DC: “I’m Ed
Sullivan’s daughter”
Betty Sullivan married Bob Precht in
1952, and at the time of this Secret, her husband was serving in the navy. Mr. Precht entered the television business
after military service, eventually becoming producer of Sullivan’s popular
variety show.
William F. Lahner of Philadelphia: “My great
grandfather invented the hot dog (in 1805)”
Cooked sausages are referenced as far
back as Homer’s Odyssey, but Johann Georg Lahner, a butcher from Vienna
Austria, is credited with inventing the wiener sausage. Vienna is ‘Wien’ in German, hence ‘wiener’. Lahner himself called his creation
‘frankfurters’ after the German town of Frankfurt which was already making
similar sausages. There were originally
differences between the two, and some purists might maintain there still are,
but today the general public uses ‘hot dog’, ‘wiener’ and ‘frank’
interchangeably.
Special Guest Ed Sullivan: “I was a caddy at
Garry Moore’s golf club (before Garry was born)”
Sullivan’s
secret was less important than a parallel game going on, in that no panelist
was allowed to ask their questions until they could get “Old Stoneface” to
laugh. Their efforts to do so provided the entertainment for the round. (Jayne,
for example, walks across the stage and tickles him.) Ed identifies the club as the Apawamis
Country Club of Rye, New York. Ray Bloch, the arranger and orchestra
conductor for The Ed Sullivan Show for its entire run (1948-1971), appears dressed as a
schoolboy in order to get one last giggle out of Ed.
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