533     July 15, 1963 (Taped May 6)
Bill, Betsy, Merv Griffin, Bess

Henry Morgan hosts

Dan Grinstead from Seattle, Washington is going to perform with Norman Paris and the Orchestra using: “18 soda pop bottles and a vacuum cleaner”                 
Grinstead has built a musical instrument on the premise of blowing across the top of a pop bottle.  The vacuum blows across all 18 bottles, and his keyboard determines which bottles receive the air and make their carefully pitched tones, resulting in a calliope-like sound.  He and the band perform “The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze” (1867).    


Larry and Phyllis [Aig] from St Petersburg, Florida: “We were married by long-distance telephone”                 
A few years earlier, Larry was serving overseas and couldn’t get leave, so the couple arranged this unusual way to tie the knot.  The eight-minute long-distance phone call cost 48 dollars.  Larry was a contestant on the unauthorized Japanese version of the show with this same secret.   


Special guest Peter Lawford challenges the panel with more riddles from the book How Come? (Doubleday 1953) just a few weeks after Cliff Robertson did the same thing for his Secret ( E524 ). Lawford has produced the new movie Johnny Cool (1963).  He does not appear in the film, but his Rat Pack buddies Sammy Davis Jr and Joey Bishop each have parts.

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