346     August 5, 1959 (Taped June 17)
Bill, Bess, Henry, Betsy

Wrestler Gorgeous George: “I’m wearing a wig…I lost a bet and had to shave my head” 
Long before the WWE, George was the first true wrestling superstar.  Wrestling had been a staple of early television, but George, with his flamboyance and theatricality, fascinated the public outside the ring as well as inside it.  His platinum blonde locks were his trademark, so losing them in a March 12 match seen by millions on television was set up as the ultimate humiliation.  Ever the showman, he displays his smoothly shaved dome after the game.   

Mrs. Agnes Clarkston and her son George Liebl, both from Eagle, Wisconsin: “We’re both sergeants in the Army” 
Master Sergeant Agnes outranks Sergeant First Class George.   

Special Guest Red Buttons chooses three finalists from jokes submitted by audience members.  Those three audience members read their jokes on stage for cash prizes.  Buttons is plugging his new film The Big Circus (1959).

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