383     April 27, 1960
Bill, Betsy, Henry, Bess

One man ([Ed Underhill] from NYC) and twelve young women from a variety of cities and foreign countries: “We all live at the YWCA”
Mr. Underhill, the building manager, lives on the West Side YWCA property with his wife.  Throughout much of the 20th century, getting a room at “The Y”, especially in a big city like New York, was considered the first step for young people moving to the city.  Today, guest rooms can still be rented at YMCA facilities (YWCA is nowadays primarily a service organization) but at daily rates that cater more to tourists than to long-term residents.  Producer Chester Feldman appears on camera to answer a question about how these particular (and uniformly attractive) girls were selected.  The Y sent them.   

Courtney Metzger from Springfield, Ohio: “I was sealed in the nose cone of a rocket for 7 days” 
Mr. Metzger is a civilian Air Force engineer who tested life-sustaining space equipment and procedures in a key step in the progress toward manned space flight.  The testing took place in Dayton, not at the Cape Canaveral facilities.  Mr. Metzger demonstrates the conditions in an on-stage replica, including covering such common questions about issues regarding food, breathing and exercise.  Not mentioned on the show is that Metzger’s water supply was his own distilled urine.   

Special Guest Art Linkletter plays a House Party-like game with the panel, asking them to recognize each other under unusual circumstances.  For example, Henry dances blindfolded with three young women, and has to pick one which one is Betsy.  Linkletter’s freewheeling, loosely-structured House Party variety program ran on radio and later television from 1945 to 1969. Here, he is promoting his latest book, The Secret World of Kids (Random House 1959).