Evelyn Currie from Chattanooga, Tennessee: “I have a lion
backstage…I’m going to put my head in the lion’s mouth”
Currie is a lion tamer for the
Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus, currently performing at
Madison Square Garden. Currie had a
colorful life (she was much older than she claimed to be), and made headlines
in 1960 when her rare tigon, a tiger-lion hybrid, escaped from its cage during
a photo shoot. She spent a tense thirty
minutes getting the animal under control.
Tonnes Anderson from Point Pleasant, New Jersey: “I caught an
atomic submarine in my fishing net”
Anderson’s
trawler and the USS Nautilus got tangled up on April 22, 1956. In the moment, Anderson had no idea what
nearly pulled his boat underwater, while no one aboard the Nautilus noticed
anything unusual at all. Anderson’s net
snapped, saving the boat from capsizing.
Only later, when the Nautilus returned to port and the crew saw pieces
of the damaged net, did the whole story come together. Over the years, the Nautilus would have
several run-ins with fishing nets.
Special guest Jonathan Winters brings
a Marine drill team. Pairs of marines
are assigned to each panelist, who each must give military instructions to get
them to march to a designated point.
Garry plugs two Winters albums, Here’s Jonathan (Verve 1961) and Another Day, Another World (Verve 1962).
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