Beginning with this episode, the questioning only goes once around
the panel instead of twice. Contestants
earn $20 for each stumped panelist.
Winston Cigarettes is the new sponsor instead of Cavalier, though both
are products of the RJ Reynolds Company.
Bruno Ceresa of Langeloth, PA: “I am the all-time
US Champion liar”
The Burlington Liars Club has been
presenting annual awards since 1929, and Ceresa was the 1933 champion. For their silver anniversary in 1954, they
crowned Ceresa the “Champion of Champions” for his lie (more of a tall tale)
about a grandfather’s clock that had been operating for so long that the shadow
of the pendulum had worn a hole in the back of the case. (Also see
E88
and
E479
)
Mrs. [Anna Franks]: “I sat on Abraham
Lincoln’s lap (1864)”
In the 1940s and 1950s, hundreds of
senior citizens claimed to have met the president and sat on his lap when they
were very young, a terribly difficult thing to prove. A year from this episode,
Secret would have a far more remarkable eyewitness to Lincoln story. (
E173
)
Special Guest Paul Whiteman and his band: “We’re
beating our feet on genuine Mississippi mud”
Whiteman and his band were famous for their recording of the song "Mississippi Mud" (1927) and this secret simply took the lyrics of that song literally. The mud came from the banks of the Mississippi at Davenport, Iowa, not from the state of Mississippi. Whiteman led one of
the most popular jazz bands of the 1920s and 1930s, and in his time was known
as the “King of Jazz.” On Whiteman’s hit recording of “Mississippi Mud," one of the vocalists was a young Bing Crosby. At the end of the show, Garry joins the band
on drums.
This episode has not been reviewed. Information comes from alternate sources, including Gil Fates' handwritten notes. Quoted secrets are based on those notes and are believed to be accurate.
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