Rear Admiral Albert Cushing Reed from Miami: “I commanded the
first airplane to fly the Atlantic Ocean (1919)”
It was neither a solo flight, nor even
a non-stop flight, as Charles Lindbergh would do eight years later, but Lieutenant
Commander Reed and four others flew a Navy NC-4 “flying boat” across the ocean
in May of 1919. The first transatlantic flight
to England took 23 days, which included a total of six layovers in stops such
as Newfoundland, the Azores and Lisbon, Portugal. After the admiral leaves the stage, Garry
promotes the book Triumph: The Incredible
Saga of the First Transatlantic Flight (Harper & Row 1961) by Hy
Steirman and Glenn Kittler.
Janet Prohaska: “I’m graduating from high school this week” and Mrs.
Edward Prohaska (Janet’s mother) and Mrs. Alvin Gardiner (Janet’s grandmother):
“We graduated from high school last week”
The family is from Ceres, California. Mrs. Prohaska gave birth to a baby boy three
months earlier and still finished her schooling. She had originally quit high school as a
senior to get married.
Special guest Carol Burnett will
perform dramatic scenes with each of the panelists. Stenotypist George Abraham records everything
the panel says during the questioning, and that dialogue becomes the script for
their scenes. Burnett makes the silly stunt work. One week from tonight, Burnett and Julie
Andrews will star together in the variety special “Julie and Carol at Carnegie
Hall.” That special (which would preempt
I’ve Got a Secret that night) would go on to win two Emmys, one of them for
Burnett herself. The two stars would
team up again for specials in 1971 and 1989.
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