509     January 21, 1963 (Taped December 2, 1962)
Bill, Betsy, Henry, Bess

Jim Parry from Hamilton, New York, John Kernochan from Greenwich, Hank Schwartz from Los Angeles and Dave Hirschfeld from Woods Hole, Massachusetts: “We’re the national tiddlywinks champions”                 
The four are Harvard students.  Interest in a competitive form of tiddlywinks took hold in the fall of 1962 when a touring group of Oxford students came to America and introduced the game, complete with its own vernacular (you need to know your “squidge” from your “squop”), mostly on college campuses.  Within months, dozens of schools had competitive teams, and on December 30, 1962, Harvard won the first national title.  The quartet demonstrates their prowess.   

Special guest Carol Channing will be a panelist on the show next week. (The timing is correct, even though this show was recorded more than a month earlier.)  Her Secret is that she’s taking notes on what the panel asks so she’ll be prepared.  Garry plugs two upcoming projects for Channing, neither of which would come to fruition:  A record album of her Las Vegas show with George Burns, and a planned Broadway play she’s rehearsing called The King’s Mare.   

Seven-year-old Kim Chun Soo: “I don’t understand English…Garry Moore is showing me how to answer”                 
With the panel blindfolded, Garry holds up cards for Kim to give his answers.  Kim is a member of the World Vision Korean Orphan Choir, a group of some three dozen children selected from orphanages throughout Korea to tour and perform in the United States and around the world.  Like Kim, most do not speak English, and learn their lyrics phonetically.  World Vision would continue to put on tours into the 1970s, but received the most attention for their efforts in the early sixties.  The choir performs “Oh! Susanna” (1848) under the direction of Soo Chul Chang, who personally chose the performers.  The founder of World Vision, Dr. Bob Pierce, is in the audience.