Garry is wearing the sunglasses he
wore three weeks ago due to a minor eye injury (
E520
), forcing him to admit
to the home audience what the studio audience already knows, that this episode
was recorded on that date.
Mr. X: “I’ll be holding Garry in the air”
Paul Anderson
is a world champion weightlifter, who holds Garry aloft in a chair while the
blindfolded panel asks questions.
Anderson is a gold medal winner in the Olympic Games in Melbourne in
1956. He became famous a year earlier
when he traveled to the USSR to compete in an amateur weightlifting
championship. His decisive win there was
a great symbolic victory for the US during the Cold War. He later performed strength exhibitions professionally
across the country. He has been credited
with the greatest weight ever lifted by a human being, an astonishing 6,270
pounds, though there is dubious documentation for that feat. Anderson
first appeared on the show in 1955 (
E164
).
Mrs. Harry Lehman, Mrs. Albert Sellers, Mrs. Lester Wagner and Mrs.
Gordon Hay, all from Kankakee, Illinois: “We got 4 perfect bridge hands in one
deal”
Which is to
say, one player was dealt all hearts, another all spades, and so forth. The odds of thirteen cards of the same suit
being dealt to even one player among four are 635,013,559,600 to 1. Garry displays the number
2,554,511,322,166,132,992,344,640,000 (to 1) on stage as a graphic says: “These
are the odds against this happening.” That’s more than two octillion to one. Another foursome and a hostess were in the
room when it happened. (Also see E667)
Special guest Vic Damone tests the
panel on how well they know each other.
For example, presented with three fashionable outfits, Henry secretly
picks which is his favorite, and the other panelists try to guess his
choice. Garry mentions that Damone is
co-owner of the Jerry Lewis Restaurant.
That eatery, located on the Sunset Strip in Hollywood, opened in 1962
and closed in 1964.
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