374     February 24, 1960
Bill, Betsy, Henry, Bess

One-year-old Donald Carter Jr: “Today is my birthday”, his father Donald Carter Sr: “Today is my birthday, too”, Donald Sr’s father: “Today is my birthday too” and Donald Sr’s grandfather: “Today is my birthday, too”                 
Four generations, all born on February 24.  Garry cutely identifies the two older generations as Donald Carter “Sr Sr” and Donald Carter “Sr Sr Sr.” Their names are actually George and Richard, respectively.  The family is from Indiana.  The show gives them all savings bonds in the name of the youngest Carter, plus a birthday cake with 153 candles on it (their combined ages).   

Special Guest Zsa Zsa Gabor: “I’m wearing a dress made out of a potato sack”  
The dress is mostly obscured by her fox stole.  Zsa Zsa is the middle child of the three Hungarian Gabor sisters, all known for their glamorous socialite behavior and multiple marriages more than their actual acting ability.  Garry identifies Gabor’s latest film as Blue Contessa, known in its native Italian as La contessa azzurra (1960).  She is also promoting her autobiography My Story (World 1960).  Sister Eva would visit the show a few months from now with a near-identical Secret ( E412 ).   

John Cage from Stony Point, New York: “I’m going to perform one of my musical compositions…The instruments I will use are a water pitcher, an iron pipe, a goose call, a bottle of wine, an electric mixer, a whistle, a sprinkling can, ice cubes, 2 cymbals, a mechanical fish, a quail call, a rubber duck, a tape recorder, a vase of roses, a seltzer siphon, 5 radios, a bathtub and a grand piano”                 
The man who would become legendary for his experimental and avant-garde works has not yet achieved that level of fame here, though arguably his best known work, a composition in which musicians do not play their instruments known as 4’33”, was “composed” in 1952.  Garry refers to him here as “controversial” and skips the game in order to devote more time to an interview and the performance itself.  In a weird twist, two competing labor unions got into a dispute as to which had the jurisdiction of plugging in the five radios, so they remain powerless and Cage treats them as percussion instruments.  Cage’s work here is called Water Walk (1959) and had been performed the previous year on a TV program in Italy.