160     November 9, 1955
Bill, Jayne, Henry, Betsy Palmer

102-year-old George Worcester of New Haven, Connecticut: “I rode on Abe Lincoln’s campaign train in 1864”                 
Worcester was a twelve-year-old living in Maine in 1864.  Hannibal Hamlin, Lincoln’s vice-president at the time and also a Maine native, knew Worcester’s mother and invited them to ride on the train to visit Worcester’s grandfather.  Hamlin was campaigning with Lincoln for reelection in early 1864, but by June he had been thrown off the Republican ticket by party leaders in favor of Andrew Johnson from the politically key border state of Tennessee.  Nevertheless, Hamlin continued to campaign for the Lincoln-Johnson ticket.  Lincoln was reelected, and Johnson became the 17th president of the United States after Lincoln’s 1965 assassination.   

Jinx the Chimp: “I do an impression of Liberace” 
Jinx is owned and trained by Darlene Selleck, who originally wanted him simply as a pet.  Trained chimpanzees (such as Zippy, who made multiple Secret appearances) were a popular mainstay of fifties television. Jinx was particularly known for his ice skating prowess.  “Jinx and Darlene” would perform on television and in a variety of circuses for more than a decade.  Jinx “retired” in 1966 when, like a lot of older trained chimps, he became harder to control.   

Special Guest Linda Darnell: “I have a pet monkey under my coat” 
Darnell achieved movie stardom at a young age.  She was playing adult romantic leads while still in her teens.  In an up-and-down career marred by bouts of alcoholism, she made a few good pictures in the 1940s, but like so many beautiful young actresses, never achieved the sort of stardom expected of her.  She would die in a house fire in 1965 at the age of 41.