320     January 21, 1959
Bill, Bess, Henry, Betsy

Bill Ballantine from Rockland County, New York: “I have a troupe of trained fleas at the end of this rope” 
Ballantine was a career circus man, a professional clown and an author and illustrator about circus topics.  He employs his clown training (though out of makeup) to make it appear that something large and ferocious is on the other end of his rope.  Garry plugs his current book, Wild Tigers and Tame Fleas (Rinehart, 1958), one of ten that Ballantine would write in his lifetime.  From 1969 to 1977, Ballantine would be Dean of the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Clown College.   

Four brothers and sisters in the Thorn family: 
Georgette: “I was born Jan. 22, 1947” 
Terry: “I was born Jan. 22, 1949” 
Cheryl: “I was born Jan. 22, 1951” 
Randy: “I was born Jan. 22, 1953” 
Wacky childbirth.  The Thorn children would turn 12, 10, 8 and 6 the next day.  The show showers the kids with gifts.   

Special Guest Dana Wynter applies old-age makeup to herself during the panel’s blindfolded questions. 
Wynter, who pronounces her first name “donna,” had a solid if unspectacular career in film and television, playing both victim and villain with cool elegance.  Here, she is promoting In Love And War (1958).  Her final role would be as the wife of Raymond Burr’s wheelchair-bound detective in the TV-movie The Return of Ironside (1993).

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