Last week, the show introduced
ventriloquist Bernard George and pretended he was an engineer from Minitone
Electronics, a company name the show made up.
It turns out there really is a Minitone Electronics, though they have
nothing to do with tiny radios. The real
Minitone produced the “Scourmaster”, a cordless multi-use brush device that
they claimed could clean everything from glassware to barbecue grills to vegetables. The product would only be on the market for a
few years.
John Cameron from Weston, Connecticut is suspending Pat McCormick
in the air by: “A magnet”
McCormick, of the show’s production
staff, is only seen from the waist down, his top half hidden by a curtain. Cameron works for Union Carbide, and designed
this electromagnet, powered by a flashlight battery. Later, Garry and Mr.
Cameron are lifted by the magnet, a weight of more than 350 pounds. Founded in
1917, Union Carbide produced a wide variety of consumer and industrial products,
primarily related to the chemical industry.
Since 2001 it has been a subsidiary of Dow Chemical.
Paul White from the University of Illinois: “I made a phone call
to a girls’ dormitory” and Frank Morrell also from the University of Illinois:
“I hung up the phone 5 day later (120 hours of talk)”
The boys of
Hopkins House chatted with the girls of Flagg House in shifts. 72 boys and 99
girls ended up participating. The
talkathon resulted in a number of blind dates, and a pizza party for the two
houses. The call was made on a pay
phone, and, being a local call, only cost a single dime. Morrell is the dorm counselor, who bent a few
house rules to keep the call alive, and was given the honor of ending the call.
Special guest Roy Rogers has brought a western outfit for Henry to
wear because: “I’m going to give Henry Morgan a job on my ranch”
Rogers dresses Henry in the getup
during the questioning. Henry will work
a day on Roy Rogers’ ranch in California’s San Fernando Valley, with a filmed
report to follow on next week’s show.
Henry reads from “The Truth About Cowboys,” a monologue he recorded a
couple of years ago which paints cowboys in a negative light. Rogers and his wife Dale Evans will appear on The Bell Telephone Hour on December
8.
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