Garry the Weatherman: "Thanks a lot and greetings to you out there dear friends on this pleasant Wednesday evening. Raining outside but we don't care; it's nice in here."
Mrs X: "My great-great-grandmother ​posed for the Statue of Liberty"
Dorothy Bartholdi is not only the great-great-granddaughter of the model, she is the great-granddaughter of the sculptor. Frederic Auguste Bartholdi began designing the statue in 1870 and it is believed (but not proven) that he used his own mother's face for the face of Liberty herself. The statue was finished in France in 1985, disassembled, shipped to the United States and then rebuilt on what was then known as Bedloe's Island in New York Harbor in 1886. Dorothy is related to her ancestors through the distaff side of the family and re-gained the famous last name when she married a second cousin.
Mrs X and Mr Y: "Nous sommes les parent de sept paires de jumeaux"..."We have 7 sets of twins"
Mr and Mrs Paul Tremblay were on the show a little more than a year ago (
E147) with a mere six pair. Their seventh set arrived in May. The Tremblays are from Quebec and Mrs Tremblay doesn't speak English, so Secret production manager Mitchell Leiser is on hand to translate for her. The show appropriately doubles their winnings to $160 and TWO cartons of Winston cigarettes. Keeping with their tradition of giving their twins confusingly similar names (seriously, see
E147), the latest pair is named Suzie and Suzanne. As is typical of the era, Mrs Tremblay's first name is not mentioned on the show, nor in dozens of contemporary newspaper reports of their growing family. However, our research team is tenacious. It's Rosa. You're welcome.
Special guest Douglas Fairbanks Jr raffles off turkeys to the audience on Thanksgiving Eve.
Complicated bit Each audience member has a numbered card. The panelists are, in turn, quizzed on American history. All the questions have numerical answers. (How many years are referenced in the first line of the Gettysburg Address?) Whatever number a panelist gives, even if it's wrong, is matched with the audience member with the corresponding card, and that person will be shipped a turkey. Fairbanks is in New York in his capacity as vice-president of the American Association for the United Nations, a grassroots organization founded in 1944 and dedicated to fostering public and political support for the global body. Today known as the United Nations Association of the United States of America (UNA-USA), its efforts are ongoing.
This episode has been reviewed at the Library of Congress but is not generally available to the public.