Six unidentified contestants: “Our names make
up the Winston slogan”
The six are Robert Winston of New
Rochelle, NY, Donald Tase of David’s, PA, Dorothy Good of NYC, Arthur Lika of
NYC, Charles Garrett of Hicksville, NY and Charles Schultz of Bronxville, NY. So
combined, they are, “Winston Tase Good Lika C Garrett Schultz.” The slogan “Winston tastes good like a
cigarette should” first appeared in print in 1954 and on radio and television
campaigns in jingle form soon after. It
is considered one of the most famous and effective ad campaigns of the 20th
century. The FCC banned radio and
television advertising of cigarettes effective January 2, 1971, and Winston
retired its campaign soon after.
Roger Billings: “My grandmother convinced
Abraham Lincoln to grow a beard”
Unlike impossible-to-prove Lincoln
stories (
E122
,
E173
), the saga of Grace Bedell and her correspondence with
the 16th president is well-documented. Eleven-year-old Grace wrote Lincoln weeks
before the 1860 election urging him to “let your whiskers grow,” adding, “you would look a great deal better for
your face is so thin.” Lincoln’s
charming reply four days later was non-committal, but a month later he began to
grow his now famous beard. In a February, 1861 visit to her hometown a few
weeks before his inauguration (which was in March in those days), Lincoln
sought out young Grace and personally thanked her for the suggestion.
Special Guest Gina Lollobrigida
Lollobrigida, she of the exotic looks
and even more exotic name, became an international sex symbol in the fifties
and sixties, though today you’d have to be a pretty good film buff to name a
single one of her movies. Here, she and
Jayne Meadows are parents of newborns.
Her child is six months old and Jayne’s only three. They compete in a diaper-changing contest
(using dolls) while the remaining panelists try to figure out what’s going
on. Henry jokes that he’s waited a long
time to see Lollobrigida, only to be blindfolded. Lollobrigida would die in 2023 at the age of 95.
This episode has not been reviewed. Details come from alternate sources, including thumbnail descriptions of the episodes in GSN documentation. Except where noted, “secrets” are not exact quotes.
This site was created with the Nicepage