Faysie’s back!
Paul Anderson:
“I’m going to lift the panelists all at once”
The
combined weight of the panel is around 600 pounds. Anderson exploded into the public
consciousness earlier in the year when he traveled to the USSR to compete in an
amateur weightlifting championship. His
decisive win there was a great symbolic victory for the US during the Cold
War. In October, he won a gold medal at
the World Weightlifting Championships in Germany. He would go on to win an Olympic gold medal
in 1956 and become one of the great ambassadors for the sport of competitive
powerlifting. He would return to the
show in 1963 (
E523
). A brief clip of THIS appearance can be seen on the fourth anniversary show (
E192
)
George Kelly: “I
cut down the Christmas tree for the White House lawn”
The
tradition of an outdoor National Christmas Tree began in 1923 during the early
months of the Coolidge administration.
An indoor White House Christmas Tree is a different tradition altogether,
with 19th century origins. A Capitol
Christmas Tree has been yet another Washington DC tradition since the
1960s. This 1955 tree came from the
Black Hills of South Dakota, where Kelly is the Assistant State Forester. It’s
believed the tree started out as a seedling around 1890, coincidentally making
it the same age as President Eisenhower.
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