[Ivy Ivey] from Dallas, Texas: “I have poison
ivy”
Mrs. Ivy
contacted the show immediately after catching it while leading a Cub Scout
hike, and they whisked her to New York to be on the program right away.
Special Guests Howard Duff and Ida Lupino
spotlight goofy laws
The game is based
on Dick Hyman’s 1936 book and newspaper comic feature “It’s the Law.” The guests break ridiculous or obsolete laws (“It’s
against the law to tickle a girl with a feather duster in Portland, Maine”) as
they are flashed on a screen behind the panel.
Duff and Lupino were married film stars who played married film stars in
the TV series Mr. Adams and Eve (1957-58), a show very broadly based on their own experiences. The series would premiere two days from this
broadcast and run until September 1958.
Bill has tickets to the boxing match between
Sugar Ray Robinson and Gene Fullmer, so he leaves the live show to get to
Madison Square Garden in time. Fullmer
would win the bout and briefly capture the middleweight title before Robinson
reclaimed it in a rematch four months later.
Tom Attridge from Glen Cove, Long Island: “I
shot myself down (in a U.S. Navy jet plane)”
Attridge was a
test pilot of supersonic jets. On
September 26, 1956, Attridge flew so fast that his plane overtook bullets he
had fired moments earlier. He crash
landed and spent two weeks in a hospital.
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