145     July 20, 1955
Bill, Jayne, Roger von Ost, Faye

Roger von Ost is Henry’s brother and is otherwise completely undistinguished in the world of show business.    

Bernard Dougherty from Piney Flats, Tennessee: “I carried a pin-up photograph of Faye Emerson during World War II” 
Dougherty gets to meet his wartime crush. Faye is mostly a stage actress at this point in her career, but she made 31 pictures between 1941 and 1946, and was a stunning beauty.    

Hubert B from Philadelphia: “I have the longest name in the United States” 
The name he uses legally is Hubert Blaine Wolfeshlegelsteinhausenbergerdorff, Sr.  (Yes, he saddled his son with it too.)  Mr…uh…Hubert claims that his full last name is 666 letters long and that he has 26 given names, one for each letter of the alphabet from Adolph to Zeus.  He says his full last name is a loosely translated Germanic story of shepherds who were descended from space aliens.  Hubert was interesting.  He would return to the show for the sixth anniversary special in 1958 ( E290 ).   

Special Guest Shirley Yamaguchi                  
The actress identified in the United States as Shirley Yamaguchi was born in China to Japanese parents as Yoshiko Yamaguchi.  That cross-cultural upbringing created perilous situations in her personal life during and after World War II, but ultimately led to film success in both countries under a variety of assumed Chinese names, as well as her real Japanese name.  In Japan, she worked with famed director Akira Kurosawa among others.  She was only known as “Shirley” in a handful of English-language films of the 1950s, including House of Bamboo (1955) which she promotes here.  Following her film career, she would be elected to the Japanese parliament in 1974, where she would serve for eighteen years.