Mr Bones of Reading, Pennsylvania: "I inherited $50,000"
Mr Bones is the pseudonym that March assigns to Bobby, an Airedale terrier whose saga had made just enough news that the panel might have recognized his real name. (Some clever newspaper headline writers called him an Heir-dale.) Mrs Ruth Maurer, a widow who kept to herself, left virtually her entire estate to the care and feeding of her beloved pet. Freda Kirby, an old friend of the late Mrs Maurer, has taken over Bobby's care, and is in the studio with him today. Maurer left Kirby a stipend of $125 a month, and rent-free use of the apartment Bobby knows as home. Only after Bobby's death is the remainder of the estate to be doled out to Mrs Maurer's relatives, who include a niece, two brothers and a sister. Bobby would die of a kidney infection in 1963, by which time his assets had grown to about $60,000. Bobby was apparently a good investor.
Mr X: "I'm going to eat my shirt"
Chaz Chase was a vaudevillian comic whose act consisted primarily of his omnivorous consumption of what most of us would consider inedible items. Lit cigars and cigarettes were a specialty. The panel is blindfolded because Chase is enjoying a resurgence in his career, and because he's doing his stunt during the questioning. Chase would go on to make many TV appearances in the decades that followed, including two bookings on Late Night With David Letterman, the last just months before his death in 1983. In a nice punch line to the entire segment, Chase starts to eat the sponsor's product, and says, "Winstons taste good like a cigarette should."
Special guest Vera-Ellen: "My dress is made from an old suit of Bill Cullen's...and the rest of my outfit is made from Henry's shirt, tie and cuff links"
March and his guest stand center stage for the game, which immediately alerts the panelists to something a little different. In the end, they fail to guess the secret, though Bill notes when it's over that he has a suit "made of the same material." Vera-Ellen Rohe (she lopped off her last name professionally, but the hyphen was always there) was an actress, dancer and singer, though her singing voice in films was often dubbed. She appeared in classic film musicals such as On The Town (1949) and White Christmas (1954). She's on the show to plug her latest picture Let's Be Happy (1957) which would be her final film role. After a few more TV appearances, she would retire from acting, and after the death of her three-month-old child in 1963, she would retire from public life entirely.
To close, March asks each of the panelists what their chosen category might be if they appeared on his big-money quiz The $64,000 Question. Bill chooses history, Jayne the stage, Henry the American railroad, and Faye admits she doesn't know that much about any one subject.
This episode has been reviewed at the Library of Congress, but is not generally available to the public.