Captain [Nick Miller] from Camp Pendleton, California: “I won 1st
prize in a cooking contest (against 4,000 women)”
Captain Miller is wearing his Marine
Corps uniform. When stationed in
Virginia, he took part in a contest sponsored by the Norfolk Ledger-Star.
Special Guest William Bendix
Nine people named Riley (some with
different spellings) are on stage. They
each have a different occupation, and during the panel’s questioning, Bendix
acts out each Riley’s job. The bit is a
nod to Bendix’s best-known role, that of Chester Riley in the radio and TV
series The Life of Riley. Bendix had played the part since 1941. The series had run its course, with its final
episode having aired just a few weeks earlier on August 22. That fact is only hinted at on this program,
suggesting that Bendix thought it might yet return.
Tom Blair from Ohio: “I have a full-size airplane in this box
(with propeller and motor)”
Blair unboxes and
inflates the plane during the questioning.
The “Inflatoplane” was an experimental aircraft developed for the armed
forces by Goodyear at their Akron plant.
Only a dozen or so prototypes were made between 1956 and 1959. Testing continued for another decade or so,
but when the military showed little interest in the design, Goodyear abandoned
the project in the early seventies.
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