127     March 16, 1955
Bill, Jayne, Henry, Faye

Unidentified female contestant: "I was the first girl Garry kissed"
Presumably some lass that caught Garry's eye growing up in Baltimore, but alas, we don't know her identity.

Special guest Thelma Ritter: "I gave Garry his latest kiss"
Ritter grew up as a stage actress and didn't make her first movie until she was 45 years old (a small, unbilled role in 1947's Miracle on 34th Street ).  Despite that late start, she would turn in a series of memorable performances in such films as All About Eve (1950) Rear Window (1954) and How The West Was Won (1962).  Along the way, she earned six Academy Award nominations for Best Supporting Actress, a record in that category which still stands today. She never won an Oscar but would win a Tony in 1958 for her performance in the musical New Girl In Town.  Oddly, she and co-star Gwen Verdon shared that Leading Actress win.

Col Martin H Foery from New York City: "I am leading the St Patrick's Day Parade tomorrow"  
The identity of the contestant is a bit of speculation on our part, but here's the story.  New York City's annual St Patrick's Day Parade down 5th Avenue, which began in 1762, is steeped in traditions.  Since 1851, one of those is that the parade is led by the 69th Infantry Regiment, today part of the New York Army National Guard.  Colonel Foery is the commanding officer of the 69th, making him (at least according to an Ed Sullivan newspaper column) the de facto leader of the entire parade.  Foery is a highly decorated career Army man who would eventually reach the rank of Major General.  Here, he is joined by a 42-piece band, which likely had its own leader. The "Fighting 69th" was originally organized as a militia unit for Irish Catholic immigrants. Today, the 69th continues to honor and maintain many Irish traditions, though as one writer put it, the modern regiment is " no more Irish than the Notre Dame football team."