Garry poked himself in the eye a half
hour before air, and wears sunglasses throughout the show as a precaution.
Larry Stagg, Gordon Mitchell, Dennis Paperd, Vincent Melosky,
Virginia Melosky and Earl Collins from Detroit, Michigan bring out an
eight-foot-long, slender case which contains: “A harmonica…It takes 6 of us to
play it”
The group belongs
to the Detroit chapter of the Society for the Preservation and Advancement of
the Harmonica. Stagg designed and built
the instrument himself in 1932 and gave it the name “Big John.” They perform “Chinatown, My Chinatown”
(1906). The SPAH still operates today.
Mrs. Margaret Cahill from Revere, Massachusetts: “I just won
$140,000.00 in the Irish Sweepstakes.”
The show had
another Irish Sweepstakes winner way back in 1952 (
E9
) where you can read
more about the sweepstakes itself.
Cahill’s good fortune is somewhat offset by the large tax rates in
1963. She expects to keep only $40,000
for herself after taxes are paid.
Special guest Suzy Parker brings 8-year-old Nancy Edelman, who has
a secret: “I designed the fabric for Miss Parker’s dress,” followed by Parker’s
secret: “I’m going to have dresses made for Betsy and Bess…the fabrics will be
designed by Bill and Henry”
Fashion designer Adele Simpson saw
Nancy’s colorful, abstract painting at a school art exhibit, and liked it so
much she had it reproduced on silk and made into a dress. Young Nancy and her classmates were featured
in a recent LIFE magazine feature. As
for the panel, Bill and Henry create their designs by finger-painting, and the
dresses will be revealed on a later show. Parker was a popular model/actress in the days
when there weren’t as many of those as there are now. Her fame and beauty inspired The Beatles to
write a song about her called, imaginatively, “Suzy Parker” (1969) which
appears in the film Let It Be (1970). She has nothing specific to plug here, but
was appearing as a guest on various television series.
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