481     April 16, 1962
Merv Griffin, Betsy, Henry, Bess

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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