386     May 25, 1960
Durward Kirby, Betsy, Henry, Bess

[Rusty Simmons] from New York City at a microphone center stage: “I’m going to sing every other line of the song…My twin sister is going to sing the alternate lines” 
With the panel blindfolded, Rusty and her sister also alternated answering the questions.  Her sister’s name is never mentioned, and the song they perform, “Johnny Don’t Look Now,” appears never to have charted.   


Special Guest Burgess Meredith performs a dramatic reading of a comic story written by Garry many years ago.  Hugh the Blue Gnu was one of Garry’s radio monologues, which Garry taped on the Decca label in 1944.  Meredith is directing The Thurber Carnival (1960) on Broadway.   

Bill Sorensen from Jefferson, Iowa: “I’m going to give Garry and the panel…trampoline bouncing lessons” 
I’ve Got A Secret is once again capitalizing on the latest craze.  The modern trampoline was invented by two Iowa men in 1936, who named their trademarked device after the Spanish word for diving board, trampolin.  Sorensen is not only the president and founder of American Trampoline Company (later American Athletic Equipment Company), he was the Big Ten trampoline champion in 1953 as part of the University of Iowa gymnastics team. Competitive trampolining would become an Olympic sport in 2000.

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