Bill McLellan from Pasadena, California: “I built the smallest
electronic motor in the world…you need a microscope to see it work”
McLellan works for Electro-Optical
Systems in Pasadena. Richard Feynman,
the legendary theoretical physicist, offered a $1000 prize to anyone who could
build a working motor no more than 1/64 of an inch high. McLellan’s design was far smaller even than
that. Dr. George Schwartz and microscope equipment provided by Bausch and Lomb (hooked
up to an enormous CBS camera) allow us to see the ridiculously tiny motor spin.
Min Pai from Seoul, Korea: “I can drive my bare hand through…5
inches of wood”
Min works at the Sigward Sports
Academy, a martial arts facility in New York City from the late 40s into the
60s. Karate was introduced in the US by
American servicemen returning from the Pacific after World War Two, but more
than a decade later it still wasn’t well known by the general public. Even with Min wearing his traditional ‘gi’
uniform, all the panel can come up with is “something like judo.” Karate is a far more ancient system, but came
to America far later than judo did.
Special Guest Keenan Wynn brings a
dramatic scene for the panel to perform.
However, Betsy doesn’t get a script. She must ad-lib her way through the
plot while the others read their prepared lines. Eventually, she even has to keep up with two
male dancers (George Foster and George Reeder from Garry’s variety show) doing
a choreographed routine. Wynn doesn’t have anything to plug, but mentions with
delight that he woke up this morning in Santa Monica, got his little girl off
to school, and jetted across the country to do the show.
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