397     August 24, 1960
Bill, Betsy, Henry, Bess

Crayton Rowe from North Carolina: “I’ve got carrots in my ears”                 
He does too, great big ones sticking out from both sides.  Betsy plays this game solo, after a cover story about her in TV Guide pointed out that she rarely guessed any secrets.  Assuming the carrots to be too obvious, Betsy never does guess correctly.  Rowe is a young actor, presumably hired by the show for the stunt, who appeared in the very first staging of the musical The Fantasticks at Barnard College in 1959.  That show would move to an off-Broadway theater in 1960 (without Rowe) and run for a record-breaking 42 years.  Rowe would become a psychoanalyst and author.

Paul Eakins from Sikeston, Missouri: “This music roll plays piano, flute, snare drum, bass drum, cymbal, triangle, castanets, xylophone, viola and violin”                 
Mr. Eakins collects vintage coin-operated musical instruments and operates “The Gay 90s Village”, a tourist attraction in Sikeston.  He demonstrates two large instruments from his collection here, the Violano-Virtuoso and the Orchestrion.  Eakins would devote his life to the preservation of nickelodeons, player pianos and similar devices, as well as to the music generated on them.  His recordings are still available today.