364     December 16, 1959
Bill, Bess, Henry, Betsy

George and Edward Pupp, brothers from Wisconsin: “We married their sisters” and Aloysius and Joseph Geiger, brothers from Wisconsin: “We married THEIR sisters”             Wacky matrimony.  The large families lived on farms about seven miles from each other.  There were nine Pupp children and 17 Geiger children.  A sad note not mentioned on the show is that there was a third Geiger sister who married a third Pupp brother, but that wife had died six years earlier.  Between them, the five couples had 36 children of their own at the time of this Secret.   

Hans Kraus from New York: “I just bought a book…it cost $182,000 (highest price ever paid for a book)” 
Klaus, a rare book dealer, bought The Apocalypse of St John at auction on December 1.  Also known as Revelation, the last book of the New Testament, this work had been printed in St Albans, England around 1240.  Kraus would sell the work to a German collector in 1961.  
 
Special Guest Pat Boone’s Secret is that the panel will provide vocal accompaniment while he sings The Twelve Days of Christmas.  Boone is appearing in the movie Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959).