171     January 25, 1956
Bill, Jayne, Henry, Faye

We begin with the panel singing “Happy Birthday” to Garry, who turns 41 next week.   

Robert Nelson of Kansas City: “I married my commanding officer in the Marines” 
Nelson was a staff sergeant, and his wife Peggy was a captain when they were assigned to the marine recruiting office in St Louis in 1953.  Now out of the military, Nelson works in insurance.   

Charles Atlas challenges Garry to an arm-wrestling match 
Charles Atlas, born in Italy as Angel Siciliano, began marketing his “Dynamic-Tension” method of strength training and muscle building in the 1920s.  Through aggressive marketing, frequently on the back cover of superhero comic books, Atlas became the best-known bodybuilder of his era.  Even today, the name alone is synonymous with strength and power.  Concepts like the “97-pound weakling,” and having sand kicked in your face at the beach, became iconic elements of popular culture, and the subject of frequent parodies.    Atlas is 63 years old here, and still easily bests Garry in their match.  The company Atlas founded continues to operate today as an online presence.   

Special guest Ernest Borgnine drove Jayne to the studio tonight in a taxi, and she doesn’t know it was him. 
Not only that, he secretly recorded their conversations about the show, and plays some of it back to Jayne's mild embarrassment.  Later this year, Borgnine will play a taxi driver in The Catered Affair (1956), a poorly-received follow-up to his Oscar-winning performance a year earlier in Marty (1955).  (Both movies were based on ​Paddy Chayefsky TV scripts.) In a busy and prolific career, Borgnine later became famous for his starring role in the television sitcom McHale’s Navy (1962-1966).  Coincidentally, decades later, Borgnine would play another cabbie, known only as “Cabbie,” in the sci-fi film Escape from New York (1981).  The Borgnine Taxis company in the Grand Theft Auto videogame universe is a nod to him and that role.