Charles Escoffery from El Segundo, California: “The fuel that
powers this car is sunlight”
Escoffery’s car is a 1912 Baker
Electric, which he has retrofitted with a solar panel on the roof at a cost of
$20,000. It is the first full-sized car
to run on solar power. Dr. Escoffery
points out that the panel is similar to those used on the new Pioneer 5 space
satellite, which had launched five days earlier. Today, practical solar cars are still rare,
though testing continues with exotic experimental vehicles.
George Graff from the Pocono Mountains: “I wrote ‘When Irish Eyes
Are Smiling’”
An appropriate Secret on this day
before St. Patrick’s Day. Though assumed
to be an old Irish ballad, the standard was written in 1912 for a now
long-forgotten Broadway play called The
Isle O’Dreams (1913). Chauncey
Olcott wrote the play, co-wrote the lyrics of the song with Graff, and
performed the song in the show. Ernest Ball composed the music. Of the three men, only Olcott had Irish
heritage.
Special Guest Olivia de Havilland will
test the panelists’ steady hands by having them stack matchboxes while
questioning. The winner of the
competition gets to paint a portion of the green stripe running down Fifth
Avenue, marking the St Patrick’s Day Parade route. In the end, all four are sent off into the
night to complete the task, leaving Garry to finish the show alone.
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