Hackett
is appearing in The Wonderful World of
the Brothers Grimm (1962).
John Heitsch from Madison, Wisconsin: “I parachuted into the ocean
last week…to help astronaut Scott Carpenter”
On May 22, after orbiting the Earth
three times aboard Aurora 7, Carpenter splashed down in the Atlantic 250 miles
away from his target. After forty minutes of searching, with the world holding
its collective breath, he was finally located northeast of Puerto Rico. Airman Heitsch was one of two paratroopers
dispatched from the USS Intrepid to bring Carpenter back safely. The other
paratrooper, Staff Sgt Ray McClure, appears loaded with the equipment they both
used for their jump. Following
controversy over how Carpenter handed his landing, this would be his only trip
into space. He would retire in 1967.
Mrs. Gerard Curtis from Rockport, Massachusetts: “The furniture in
my house is made of newspapers…The house is made of newspapers too”
The house was originally built as a
summer cottage in the 1920s by mechanical engineer Elis Stenman. Stenman’s wife Esther gave tours of the
unusual house until her death in 1961.
Mrs. Curtis is their niece. After
her death in 1995, her daughter Edna Beaudoin would take over maintaining the
property, though it hadn’t been used as a residence for decades. The Paper House, located just north of
Boston, remains a tourist attraction today.
Special guest Jimmy Dean s
ings lines
inspired by his smash hit “Big Bad John” (1961) but related to the panel, and
has the panelists try to come up with extemporaneous rhyming lines. Henry presents Dean with a gold record, and
on May 29, the day after this broadcast, he would win two Grammys for his
recording. Soon after, The Jimmy Dean Show (1963-1966) would be
credited with bringing country music to the general public, and was an early
showcase for Jim Henson’s Muppets, specifically Dean’s sidekick Rowlf the
Dog. Today, though, he is probably best
known for the sausage company he founded in 1969, which still bears his name. In fact, though he died in 2010, his voice is still heard in some of the company's advertising.
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