Mrs. Clifford Barry from Warren, Ohio: “While
my husband was at the races today…I flew to Bermuda for lunch”
Mr. and Mrs.
Barry are at the desk together. They are
the parents of 18 children, and that’s the secret Mr. Barry thought they were
going to share with the panel. Instead,
while a production staffer took Mr. Barry to the racetrack, another took Mrs.
Barry to Hamilton, Bermuda for the afternoon.
Her husband had no idea. The show
shot film of the trip that was developed just in time to be shown on the
program. Garry gives the Barrys two more
tickets to Bermuda to enjoy the island together the next day.
[Edward Pierman] from Long Beach, New York:
“I’m wearing a suit designed for exploring the moon”
Pierman’s mouthful of a title is Space
Environment and Life Sciences Laboratory Coordinator for Republic Aviation
Corporation. Republic is a maker of jet fighter planes, and pivoted, like so
many aeronautic companies did in the early sixties, to manufacturing for space
exploration. At this point, the first
manned spaceflight of any sort, Yuri Gagarin’s Soviet mission, was still six
months away. This prototype looks like a
can with arms and legs sticking out of it, almost like something out of a bad
science fiction movie. Dr. William
Helvey, chief of Life Science Research for Republic, comes out to explain the
suit in more detail.
Special Guest William Bendix puts a
paper bag over Garry’s head and the panel tries to create a picture of Garry’s
face using the new Identikit. Identikit,
released in 1959, is the first mechanical system of creating facial composites,
the sort of thing used by police in criminal investigations. Identikit uses
various drawings of facial features on acetate sheets, which are stacked on top
of each other to create the composite image.
Today, composite artists and computer rendering do that work. Bendix is preparing to appear in the Broadway
musical Take Me Along (1959-1960),
replacing Jackie Gleason in the main role.
The show would close on December 17.
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