447     August 23, 1961
Bill, Betsy, Alan King, Bess

Henry Morgan hosts

Ronnie Robertson from Laguna Beach, California: “I can spin faster than this fan is turning (420 RPM)”                 
Robertson is a figure skater well known for his ability to spin rapidly on ice.  He was a silver medalist in the 1956 Olympics and is currently performing in the Ice Capades traveling show.  The Ice Capades started in 1940, featuring Olympic medalists and other champions who had retired from formal competitions.  Various Ice Capades tours ran for fifty years before the popularity of such shows waned.  The producers had intended to show Robertson perform, but they could not get the ice to freeze under the hot studio lights (see E416 ) and showed film instead.   


John Mosco from Bristol, Pennsylvania: “I became a father and a grandfather on the same day”                 
Wacky childbirth. On August 9.  Both his wife and his 24-year-old daughter (from a previous marriage) had sons.   


Special guest George Gobel arrives with six finalists in the Miss America Pageant, who help him test whether one can concentrate on more than one thing at a time.  The panelists all have reading material they have to study while at the same time being distracted by the beauty queens, by Norman Paris playing the piano, and by a scripted conversation about horse racing between Henry and Gobel.  “Lonesome George” is in rehearsal for the Broadway musical Let It Ride! (1961) which would open on October 12 and close on December 9 after 68 performances.  The Miss America pageant would air on September 9 on CBS.

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