537     September 30, 1963 (LIVE)
Bill, Betsy, Henry, Bess

Magician Milbourne Christopher: “I will take off Henry’s vest without removing his jacket”                 
Bill and Henry were specifically asked to wear vests for this segment.  Christopher removes the vest through one of Henry’s sleeves.  We learn here that Christopher, making his second of three appearances on the show, is a friend of Garry’s from their young Baltimore days.   


Phil Linz, infielder for the New York Yankees: “I hit a foul ball into the stands this season…the ball hit my mother”                 
Mrs. Linz is seated with her son at the desk.  The Yankees have just won the American League pennant earlier and are about to face the Los Angeles Dodgers in the World Series.  The Dodgers would sweep the Yankees in four games.  Linz had a modest seven-season major league career, mostly for the Yankees, but later for the Phillies and the Mets.  In the 1964 season, Linz would be at the center of a notorious “harmonica incident” involving his Yankee teammates.  Linz was chastised by manager Yogi Berra for playing his harmonica on the team bus, an altercation that oddly brought the team closer together.  Following the incident, the team rallied late in the season to capture yet another pennant.  Berra, however, was fired after the season.   


Special guest Gordon MacRae: “I am going to teach the panel to sing rock ‘n roll”  
MacRae, primarily known for film musicals of the 1950s, is hardly the most likely ambassador for the youth scene, and indeed, the segment is played for laughs. The panel performs backup vocals as MacRae sings a silly original song about bringing rock and roll records into space.  The show simply never took the younger generation’s music seriously.  MacRae is playing, for a decidedly older generation, at the Empire Room of the Waldorf Hotel.

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