436     June 7, 1961
Bill, Betsy, Henry, Bess

Caroline Kearney and Gregg Placek from Delhi, New York will compete on stage in: “A calf feeding contest” 
The youngsters had won other competitions to reach this point, including the finals of the Delhi Dairyland Festival last week.  Caroline wins the competition, which is judged by the Dairyland Festival’s general chairmen Dr. Arthur Davis and Charles Holman.
  

Mr. X from Houston, Texas: “I won the Indianapolis 500 mile race last week” and Mr. Y from Anderson, Indiana: “I won the first Indianapolis race 50 years ago” 
A.J. Foyt and Ray Harroun today are both inducted in the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Hall of Fame.  Harroun’s original win in 1911 was the first 500 mile auto race of any sort, considered then to be a grueling marathon.  His average speed was just under 75mph.  This was the first of what would be four Indy 500 wins for Foyt in his legendary career, which also would include winning NASCAR’s Daytona 500 in 1972.     


Special Guest Charley Weaver brings four different Secrets, one for each of the panelists, and has them compete to see which can discover theirs first. The Secrets are: 
“Charley took Bill’s wife to dinner tonight” (Ann appears briefly at the end of the program) 
“Charley is wearing Betsy’s hat under his own” 
“Charley will serve Henry with a subpoena” 
“Charley has Bess’s paycheck in his pocket”
Charley Weaver is a fictional character, a creation of actor Cliff Arquette.  Arquette debuted the character on radio, but it was his folksy television appearances, especially on Jack Paar’s Tonight show, that made him famous.  Arquette rarely appeared in public as anyone but Charley Weaver, and the character became a bit of an industry, with toys, books and records to his name.  In his later years he would become a regular on The Hollywood Squares (1966-1981) until his death in 1974.  A generation of acting Arquettes that includes Rosanna, Patricia, Alexis and David are his grandchildren.

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