526     May 20, 1963 (LIVE)
Bill, Betsy, Henry, Bess

Mr. X from Washington, DC: “I spent 5 months in solitary confinement – voluntarily…for space research”                 
Whilden Breen, a research assistant at the University of Maryland, agreed to live alone in a windowless isolation chamber with little outside contact, despite the fact that he was a newlywed who had gotten married only six months earlier.  He entered his confinement in November of 1962 and got out in late April.  This was a test of the human ability to endure isolation, considered necessary for long space flights of the future.   


Georg Olden from New York: “I designed the I’ve Got a Secret title card”                 
The design he refers to is the large block letters I’VE GOT A with the word SECRET flashing inside the crossbar of the A.  Olden also designed the new five-cent postage stamp recognizing the 100th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation, which Garry displays.  He is the first African-American to design a US postage stamp.  Olden is identified here as working for the ad agency McCann Erickson, but from 1945 to 1960 he worked as a graphic artist for CBS, prolifically churning out title cards and promotional material for numerous programs, often with a modern art twist.  Among his creations is the To Tell the Truth icon of a man with his hand raised and fingers crossed.   


Special guest Morey Amsterdam takes a subject from the panel and immediately comes up with a joke about it.  Later, the tables are turned and the panel comes up with jokes on various subjects.  Amsterdam has released the album Funny You Should Ask (Marsh 1963) featuring comical interviews with historical figures.  His The Dick Van Dyke Show costars Rose Marie and Richard Deacon are both also featured on the album, and Van Dyke himself created the caricature of Amsterdam featured on the cover.

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