362     December 2, 1959
Bill, Bess, Henry, Betsy

This show starts with a bit of audio from the untelevised conclusion of Marion Lorne’s game from the previous week.  Garry says it took about fifteen additional minutes for the panel to succeed.   

Edwin Busbee from Bayside, Virginia: “I made the best bean soup in the United States Navy” 
Commissaryman First Class Busbee’s “Bean Soup a la Norfolk” (as in the Naval Air Station in Norfolk, Virginia) beat hundreds of other entries in the Navy’s third annual competition.  Admiral Hugh Hainsworth is on hand to present a trophy to CFC Busbee for his accomplishment.  Busbee shares his recipe with the panel.   

Charles I. Blood from Kansas City, Missouri: “I’ve been working for the same newspaper for 75 years” 
Mr. Blood writes a daily column for the Kansas City Star.  He was the paper’s city editor for thirty years.  He started as a delivery boy at the age of 14 in 1884.  The paper itself had been founded only four years earlier.  Blood is 88 years old here.  He died in June, 1963 at age 92, still on the paper’s payroll.   

Special Guest Jayne Meadows has Bess, the newcomer of the panel, perform a few of the various stunts foisted on the group over the seven years that Jayne was on the show.  They include testing a weight-reducing machine ( E110 ), catching raw eggs on the bounce ( E333 ) and milking a cow ( E202 ).  Bess avoids having to perform the final task when the cow relieves itself on stage.

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