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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