238     June 5, 1957
Bill, Jayne, Henry, Faye

For June, practically an entire show featuring love, brides and wacky matrimony.

Mrs Terry Ann Manahan from Hagerstown, Maryland: "I was married today"
Miss Terry Ann Overstreet and 2nd Lt Richard Manahan wed earlier today in the Cadet Chapel at West Point.  The proud husband appears after the game.  Their wedding announcement in the Hagerstown Herald-Mail even mentioned that the couple had appeared on the show.  Manahan had only graduated from West Point the day before, so it was a busy week for him.  Manahan retired from the military in 1978.

James and Lolita Woodward from Kingsport, Tennessee: "We were married in our car"
In what was probably an elopement, the bride and groom reached out to a minister they knew, and when they found he had another engagement that night, agreed to meet him in the tiny town of Cohutta, Georgia, where they'd figure something out.  In the pouring rain, it turned out the easiest thing to do was to have the minister slide into the back seat of the car and conduct the ceremony there.  The minister's wife was also on hand as the only witness.  Another twist to the tale: The minister and the bride had once been engaged to each other.  Not surprisingly, the 1952 announcement of their wedding in the Chattanooga society page left a lot of these details out.

The show singles out Henry, the only unmarried person on the panel, for an elaborate nationwide contest.  Unmarried women were asked to send in their responses to "I would marry Henry Morgan because..."  In a sign of the times, one source reported that the entrants all had to be no more than 25 years old.  Henry himself was 42 at the time. The age thing was played somewhat for laughs, however.  When the winners appeared in the studio later in the summer ( E244), the second place winner was a ten-year-old girl.  The three winners received an amusingly tiered set of prizes.

Special guest Eddie Cantor has a new memoir out called Take My Life (Doubleday 1957) that may or may not have had anything to do with his secret.  It's also possible that they used Cantor's time to set up the Henry Morgan contest.