512     February 11, 1963 (Taped February 9)
Henry, Betsy, Tony Perkins, Faye Emerson

Perkins is appearing in the films The Trial (1962) and Five Miles to Midnight (1962).  Faye will star in a stage production of The Matchmaker in Palm Beach, Florida beginning February 25.   

Ivy Davenport from Hodgenville, Kentucky: “I was born in that log cabin”                 
The structure he refers to is a one-room cabin inside a museum building at the Abraham Lincoln Memorial National Park near Hodgenville.  It is supposedly the cabin where Lincoln himself was born.  Davenport worked at the memorial for 21 years, before retiring in 1959.  While Davenport was in fact born in that cabin, historians now agree it is a replica of the one Lincoln was born in, reconstructed on the site of Lincoln’s birth, but in the late 19th century. Today, the Park Service refers to the structure as the “Symbolic Log Cabin” and describes it as “yet another symbol of our collective heritage and of Lincoln’s myth.”   


Deanne Fitzpatrick from New Orleans, Louisiana: “I had triplets”                 
Less than wacky childbirth, but what makes the segment interesting is that Deanne was a member of the I’ve Got a Secret staff from 1960 until 1962.  Then single, Deanne Barkley was one of the people responsible for hunting down Secrets to use on the show.  Henry and Faye are put to work building one of three cribs the show gives Mrs. Fitzpatrick as a gift.  Meanwhile…   


Special guest Ann Sothern gives Betsy and Tony directions on how to dance the bossa nova, and gives Garry directions on how to ski.  Both efforts are from actual printed instructions found by the show staff.

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