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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