513     February 18, 1963 (Taped February 9)
Betsy, Dorothy Loudon, Gretchen Wyler, Faye Emerson

Henry hosts.

Henry hosts an all-female panel.  After on-air tryouts with several comediennes, including Peggy Cass and Nancy Walker, Loudon has recently emerged as the replacement for Carol Burnett on The Garry Moore Show.  Burnett had left the show (on good terms) at the end of the previous season.  This is Faye’s last appearance on the program.   

Youngsters Victor Finmann, Jeff Narell, Paul Sibener, Arthur Finmann and Andrew Narell, all from Whitestone, New York: “We’re a calypso steel drum band” 
The steel drum sound originated in the Caribbean in the 1930s, and gained international attention in the years following World War Two, when large oil drums left behind on the islands by the US Navy were tuned into instruments.  These young men from Long Island call themselves The Steel Bandits.  The youngest, eight-year-old Andy, is also the lead.  The boys would continue to play together for several more years, including at a 1966 NASA event where they caught the attention and admiration of Vice-President Hubert Humphrey.   

Barbara Kiernan from Andover, Massachusetts is vice-president of a group of female pilots called The 99s: “We bought an airplane with trading stamps” 
The origin of trading stamps dates to the late 19th century, but by the 50s and 60s, they had exploded in popularity. Merchants, mostly grocery stores and gas stations, would provide rebates on purchases in the form of stamps which, when collected in “books,” could be redeemed for rewards such as toys, appliances and other personal items.  Kiernan and her club collected 2500 books, some three million individual stamps, to purchase a plane for the only female pilot in Korea.  Captain Kyung O. Kim is seated in the audience.  By the 1970s, trading stamps would begin to fade in popularity, replaced by other incentives like loyalty cards and, simply, lower prices.  The last trading stamp company in the US closed in 2008.   

Special guest Durward Kirby pairs each panelist with a woman from the studio audience.  The eight compete in a shopping game, trying to determine in each round which of an assortment of shoes, hats and dresses provided by Ohrbach’s Department Store is the one expensive example mixed in among less valuable ones.