“Chris” from Salt Lake City: “I’m wearing contact lenses”
Chris is a beagle. Though the concept for contact lenses dates
back to DaVinci, ones similar to what we know today were only first introduced
in 1948. Chris is part of a group of beagles at the University of Utah
College of Medicine, where contact lenses are being studied on animals with the
goal of improvements for human eyes. Dr.
Raymond Fehr from the University of Utah comes out and explains everything.
(See also E661)
John Kresse from Brainard, Nebraska: “I was the first boy in Boys
Town (1917)”
Father Edward J Flanagan founded his
orphanage for boys in a rundown Victorian mansion in Omaha in 1917. Today, the organization operates in its own
city, Boys Town, Nebraska. Kresse and
his family believe him to be one of the “First Five” boys in a famous
photograph, but modern Boys Town historians have been reluctant to conclusively
agree. The facility gained national fame
following the release of the movie Boys
Town (1938) starring Spencer Tracey as Father Flanagan. A logo for the orphanage shows one boy
carrying another on his back, with the caption, “He ain’t heavy, Father, he’s
my brother.” A variation on that slogan would
become a worldwide hit for The Hollies in 1969, and an enduring ballad.
Special Guest Robert Q Lewis, in dark
sunglasses, a beret and a goatee, encourages the panel to be beatniks, giving
them all similar stereotypical costumes.
Beatniks, according to Q, are beginning to make the scene in clubs at San
Francisco and New York’s Greenwich Village.
The word itself had only been coined in 1958. Q’s Secret is that Henry Morgan will leave
from the studio for the Village Vanguard club to recite poetry to jazz music.
As warm-up, Henry performs a selection from his recent album The Saint and the Sinner.
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