538     October 7, 1963 (LIVE)
Bill, Betsy, Henry, Bess

3-year-old Gordon Hawthorne from Troy, Pennsylvania: “I fell into a pond,” his 5-year-old brother Hugh: “I jumped in to save him,” and their German Shepherd Dutch: “I rescued both of them” 
The harrowing event took place last October 31.  In August, Dutch was recognized as Dog Hero of the Year by the Ken-L Ration dog food brand.   

Ray Stits from Riverside, California is in front of a large box which contains: “The world’s smallest airplane”                 
Called “Sky Baby,” Stits and colleague Robert Starr built the plane in the mid-50s specifically to set the diminutive record.  The tiny biplane has a wingspan of 7’2” and is 9’10” long.  It flew for only 25 total hours before Stits donated it to the Smithsonian.  Sky Baby would hold the record for smallest airplane until 1984, when Starr would create an even smaller one called the Bumble Bee.   


Special guest James Garner challenges the panel with simple English words and phrases that have been translated phonetically into other languages.  Less confusing than it sounds.  Garner is appearing in the film The Wheeler Dealers (1963) and is on his way to London to shoot The Americanization of Emily (1964).  Garner would later call Emily his favorite of his own films.

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