284     May 7, 1958
Bill, Jayne, Henry, Betsy

Garry the Weatherman: “Thank you to a most enthusiastic and I’m afraid somewhat soggy studio audience”    

Gene Scanlon from Bayonne, New Jersey: “I write an ‘Advice to the Lovelorn’ column” (Under the name “Jeanne”) 
Scanlon’s regular job is as a reporter for the Jersey Journal in Jersey City.  He would later go on to be public relations director for the city, and was the founder of its annual St Patrick’s Day Parade.   Scanlon had previously appeared on the show in 1953 ( E57 ).    

Mr. X: “My great-great-grandfather started the Mutiny on the Bounty” 
Parkin Christian is not only the direct descendant of Fletcher Christian, but he still lives on Pitcairn Island, where Fletcher and other mutineers hid out with their Tahitian captives after the 1779 incident.  Despite more than a decade of unrest and violence that followed, including the murder of Fletcher and other mutineers by the Tahitians, Pitcairn became a peaceful and stable, if small, community.  At the time of Parkin’s visit to the show, 152 people lived on Pitcairn.  Today, some fifty descendants of the original group remain on the island.   

Special Guest Phil Silvers 
Silvers has conspired with each panelist individually to react to certain actions on his part.  Each panelist thinks they’re the only one in on the joke, when the joke is actually being played on all four of them simultaneously.  Silvers is promoting next week’s TV special “Phil Silvers On Broadway,” which was produced by Allan Sherman.

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