391     June 29, 1960 (Taped June 22)
Bill, Betsy, Henry, Bess

Special Guest Victor Borge is going to sit in for a panelist, and that panelist will take over the rest of the show as host, allowing Garry to begin his summer vacation.  Garry protests that he’ll still be around all summer with brand new episodes, not mentioning that those shows (and, in fact, this one) have all been taped in advance.  Garry sneaks out during the blindfolded questioning, leaving Borge alone to answer.  Bill is selected to host the remainder of the show.   

Mr. X: “Henry Morgan plays me in a movie (We’ve never met)” 
Burton Turkus is the former Chief of Homicide and Chief Assistant District Attorney for Kings County, New York.  In 1940, he prosecuted the notorious Murder, Inc. gang of professional hit men, founded in the 1920s by Meyer Lansky and Benjamin “Bugsy” Siegel.  Turkus wrote a 1951 book about his experience in bringing down the syndicate.  In the film Murders, Inc. (1960), Henry plays Turkus.   

Henry Feldman from Oak Ridge, Tennessee: “I’m the U.S. Spelling Bee Champion” 
Feldman challenges the panel to a spelling bee of their own.  The competition known today as the Scripps National Spelling Bee started in 1925 as a consolidation of several regional bees.  The E.W. Scripps newspaper chain (then known as Scripps-Howard) began sponsoring the event in 1941.  Now a media conglomerate that owns dozens of television stations as well as newspapers, Scripps has continued to put on the event.  At its peak of popularity, many later rounds (including the finals) appeared on ESPN and were treated like a major sporting event.  Since 2022, the competition has aired on Bounce TV and ION, two broadcast entities co-owned by the Scripps company. (See also E137 and  E680 )

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