Charles Baxter from Brooklyn, New York is lighting a jack
o’lantern on stage using: “Atomic energy”
Baxter is
project engineer for the Atomic Energy Commission. He has a small power source beside the
pumpkin which contains a vial of radioactive plutonium-238. The tiny power plant is similar to ones
powering satellites in orbit. Dr. Jerome
Morse comes out to further explain the science behind a nuclear reactor, still
mostly unknown to the general public. He
is director of small power systems for the Martin Marietta Company, an
aerospace and electronics manufacturer which would later become Lockheed Martin.
Garry refers to just “the Martin Company,” but the merger with Marietta had
happened in 1961.
Special guest Groucho Marx doesn’t
speak during his game. With the panel
blindfolded, comedian and impressionist Dayton Allen answers on Groucho’s behalf.
The panel is onto it almost immediately, but Garry keeps the game going for
laughs. With You Bet Your Life (1950-1961) cancelled and the failure of a
similar 1962 series, Groucho is no longer appearing on television
regularly. He would, however, remain in
the public eye until his death in 1977, especially after a new generation began
to rediscover the original Marx Brothers films.
Groucho has just published Memoirs
of a Mangy Lover (B. Geis Associates 1963).
Rusty Steubing from San Antonio, Texas: “I won the National
Top-Spinning Championship”
Steubing had
won the championship, and with it a $5,000 prize, in Disneyland on June
27. Duncan Toys Company, an outfit
better known for its enduring line of yo-yos, sponsored the contest. Rusty, a seventh-grader, puts on an
impressive demonstration of his talents to the delight of Garry and the
panel. Remarkably, he says he only
started spinning tops in January.
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