342     July 8, 1959
Bill, Bess, Henry, Eva Marie Saint

Coincidentally, all three regular panelists have record albums to plug: Bill Cullen’s Minstrel Spectacular (ABC-Paramount), Bess Myerson’s soon to be released piano album for the MGM label (her prototype cover misspells her last name!), and Henry’s comedy album The Saint and the Sinner (Offbeat) with Isobel Robins.  Miss Saint has only her Alfred Hitchcock film North By Northwest (1959) to promote.   

Mr. X: “This is my third appearance on I’ve Got a Secret…The first time was when my 25th child was born…The second time was when my 26th child was born…We’ve done it again! (the 27th is a boy)” 
Heliodore Cyr is the champion of wacky childbirth Secrets ( E71 , E117 ).  All 27 children were the result of single births.  The New Brunswick native and potato farmer speaks no English.  Garry secretly cues him to answer yes or no to the panel’s questions.  Later, production manager Mitch Leiser comes out to serve as interpreter.  The show gives Mr. Cyr several RCA appliances.   

Stephanie Conlow from Teaneck, New Jersey: “The State Department is sending me to Russia to model American fashions” 
Four-year-old Stephanie leaves to change clothes quickly between each set of questions, aided greatly by the fact that half the time, it’s her twin sister Meghan who comes back out.  The girls’ father Peter is the choreographer for Garry’s variety show.  With the Cold War raging, the American National Exhibition in which the Conlows participated was an effort by the US government to show Russians what typical American family life was like, and more specifically to show the merits of capitalism over socialism.  Historically, it is noteworthy today as the site of the Kitchen Debates between then vice-president Richard Nixon and Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev.   

Special Guest Walter Brennan: “I’m going to answer every 3rd question the panel asks” 
With the panel blindfolded, two impressionists, Tom Allen and Edwin Bruce, are answering alternate questions in Brennan’s distinctive voice.   Brennan’s film career earned him three Academy Awards (only five other performers have as many), but he gained an entirely new generation of fans for his TV role as Grandpa McCoy in The Real McCoys (1957-1963).