Gary Senese from Staten Island: “I pitched a no-hit game against
his team”
and [Anthony Genovese] from Staten Island: “But my team won the
game”
The boys are wearing their
little-league baseball uniforms. Anthony’s teammate scored their single run
with a walk, advancing on a ground out, a passed ball and an error. Garry reads a letter from Harvey Haddix of
the Pittsburgh Pirates. On May 29,
Haddix pitched twelve perfect innings against the Milwaukee Braves, but lost
the no-hitter and the game in the 13th inning. Though the show doesn’t mention the
coincidence, one newspaper report says that both games happened on the same
day.
Special Guest Monique van Vooren brings a tiny gift box onto the stage with her. Her secret is that it contains
Brigitte Bardot’s bathing suit. The
Belgian van Vooren, who had appeared on the panel the previous week, is a
smart, statuesque blonde beauty with an entrancing European accent, drawing
comparisons to the popular French star.
Her career never reached the heights of Bardot’s, however. Here, she is promoting the film Happy Anniversary (1959).
Carl W Bollum, Sr from Washington, DC: “I’m floating on air”
Bollum sits on a platform that rises
off the ground on columns of air forced (noisily) into it from an offstage
compressor. Bollum runs Spacetronics,
and has high hopes for his Hydro-Air vehicle, claiming it could revolutionize
transportation. Though Bollum says such
advancements are years away, later in July a rival British company would travel
across the English Channel on their vehicle, which carried the brand name
Hovercraft. Today, ‘hovercraft’ is used
generically to refer to any such air-cushioned vehicles, which continue to have
practical consumer, military and commercial applications. Bollum’s company never advanced beyond early
demonstrations.
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