471     February 5, 1962
Bill, Betsy, Henry, Bess

Pocket billiards champion Willie Mosconi sinks six balls with one shot.  His secret: “I taught Bill Cullen to do the trick I just did”
Between 1941 and 1957, Mosconi won the world billiards championship fifteen times, and for decades after remained one of the most recognized names in the sport.  The only rival to his fame was the more flamboyant Rudolph “Minnesota Fats” Wanderone, with whom he had a years-long feud.  Mosconi was demonstrably the better player and would win almost all of their face-to-face matches into the 1980s.  Mosconi served as the technical advisor on the Paul Newman film The Hustler (1961), which drew even more attention to his sport.  For his part, Bill nails his shot perfectly here.  Mosconi performs additional trick shots.   

Airman X from Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas:  “My grandfather is Congressional Medal of Honor holder…Sergeant York”
Airman Mary Elizabeth York is following in the military footsteps of her famous grandfather.  Alvin York’s most famous exploit during World War One was a 1918 attack on a machine gun nest in which he killed 25 Germans and captured 132 more.  For this he received the Congressional Medal of Honor, along with nationwide fame when his story was told in a Saturday Evening Post magazine article a year later.  The biographical film Sergeant York (1941) starring Gary Cooper added to and embellished his fame.  The elder York is not present here but is still alive at the time of this episode.  He died in 1964.   

Special guest Michael Rennie brings British slang terms, and the panelists try to use them in a sentence.  Rennie is starring in the TV series The Third Man (1959-1965).  Today he is perhaps most famous for his role as the alien Klaatu in the science fiction classic The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951).