313     December 3, 1958
Bill, Peggy Cass, Henry, Dorothy Ellington

Cass is appearing in the film Auntie Mame (1958), reprising her Tony-winning stage role as Agnes Gooch.  She would become a longtime regular panelist on To Tell the Truth.  Bill would later join her on the TTTT panel in a syndicated version of the show (1969-1978) hosted by Garry.  Mrs. Ellington, a court reporter from Charleston, West Virginia, was picked out of the studio audience two weeks earlier ( E311 ) to be a panelist on tonight’s show.    

Mr. X: “I have an 8-foot alligator at the end of this rope…I’m going to wrestle with it…Garry is going to help me” 
Ross Allen founded the Reptile Institute, a tourist attraction in Silver Springs, Florida.  In addition to genuine research and education, the Institute also lent its expertise to movies and television shows in need of exotic reptiles.  Allen founded the institute in 1929, sold his interest in 1962, but continued to work at the facility until 1975.   

George Hill from Seattle, Washington: “I’ve entered more than 5,000 contests…I’ve won…5 television sets…30 radios…500 pounds of sugar…1 pig…50 wrist watches…200 pounds of soap powder…1 beauty course…2 permanent waves…and 2,000 other prizes” 
Jingle contests and similar sponsored competitions were such a popular fad in the early decades of radio and television advertising that correspondence schools popped up offering training on “contest technique.”  One such school, which claimed Mr. Hill among its scholars, said that it had 40,000 alumni who together had won an estimated $4.5 million in prizes.   

Special Guest Pat Boone
Boone’s Secret is that he will perform a song accompanied by the panel on musical instruments provided by Emenee Toys.  Emenee was founded in 1949, and between 1955 and 1968 was a leading manufacturer of plastic toys and children’s musical instruments.  In 1968, it was acquired by Ohio Arts Company, the toy manufacturer best known for its Etch-A-Sketch.  Garry plugs Boone’s book Twixt Twelve and Twenty (Prentice Hall 1958).

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