Garry the Weatherman: “Oh, it is hotter than the inside of a
Russian horse doctor’s valise in here tonight.”
He mentions later that it’s 90 degrees in New York City.
11-year-old Dennis: “My father is a U.S. Senator-Elect from the 49th
State…ALASKA!”
William H Egan and his colleagues, Senator-Elect Ernest Gruening and
Representative-Elect Ralph Rivers (all of whom are in the studio) were elected
by territorial residents in October of 1956 in a mostly symbolic effort to
dramatize Alaska’s drive for statehood. Contemporary reporting nearly always
used quotation marks when referring to them as “senators.” Partly through their
lobbying efforts in Washington, Congress passed the Alaska Statehood Act, which
President Eisenhower signed on July 7, just five days after this broadcast. When Alaska held their first state elections
that fall, Gruening and Rivers retained their positions, and Egan won election
as the new state’s first governor. Alaska
officially became the 49th state on January 3, 1959.
Frank Crandall of Boston: “I have the world’s safest automobile
backstage”
Mr. Crandall is the chief engineer for the Liberty Mutual
Insurance Company. He worked with
colleagues from the Cornell Aeronautical Laboratory (now Calspan) on a personal
crusade to create a safer car. Garry
takes a tour of Crandall’s prototype, which cost $96,000. Among the more radical design elements are
six bucket seats (one of which faces the rear), a driver’s seat in the center
of the car, and a steering column with handles rather than a wheel.
Special Guest Art Carney “will do anything.”
Before the show, the audience wrote down
things they would like to see Art Carney do.
As the panel asks questions, Carney does whatever he sees on those
cards, usually to great slapstick effect.
In an unusual turn, the panel is still baffled as the show closes with
Carney’s Secret unexplained.
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