David Shepard from Washington, DC: “I invented a machine that
reads and writes”
Shepard is vice president of research
and development for Farrington Manufacturing.
His optical character recognition machine, which could take typed or
printed information and convert it to machine-readable form, was the first of
its kind. Garry demonstrates the use of
the large, noisy machine by feeding it Henry’s typed musings, and the result is
impressive. Shepard would later develop
an early voice-recognition system similar to those used today in automatic
telephone prompts. He’s even credited
with designing the blocky numeric font common to credit cards.
Special Guest Joel McCrea will take
exactly as much time to answer each question as a panelist does to ask it,
measured by a clock the blindfolded panel can’t see. McCrea, already a screen veteran with a
hundred films to his credit, is starring in the western TV series Wichita Town (1959-1960) alongside his
son Jody.
Nine dentists from the Dayton, Ohio area: “We’ve organized our own
Dixieland Band”
“The Docs of Dixieland” perform. They are Doctors Herman Lehman (the leader),
Robert Bright, Robert Schamel, James Triffon, Robert Deebach, Jack Halstead,
Roger Kuhn and Paul McFall from Dayton and a Dr. [Synder] from Waynesville.
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