Daniel Garcia from Cotulla, Texas: “President Johnson was my
teacher in 6th grade…he once gave me a spanking”
The
president’s first teaching job back in 1928 was in a class combining fifth,
sixth and seventh graders at the Welhausen School in Cotulla. Johnson became principal of the school the
following year. It turns out the
president is watching the live show.
Johnson calls the studio and invites Garcia to meet him at the White
House, which Garry happily announces at the end of the program. Garcia, 49, is a furniture and appliance
salesman. (See
E594
)
Paul Goodman from Bethel College in St Paul, Minnesota: “I won a
cookie baking contest…the cookie weighs 2300 pounds”
Radio station KDWB in Minneapolis offered
$1.63 a pound for the largest Christmas cookie brought to their studio. The enterprising Goodman raised money from
his Bethel classmates for ingredients and worked with volunteers in a church
basement to create the behemoth. The
station had expected a five pound cookie to win, but dutifully paid Goodman
$3,749. After paying back his investors,
Goodman used the balance to pay for college.
The now inedible enormous cookie, a month old, appears on stage.
Special guest Jose Ferrer shows the
panel animal sounds written in foreign languages, and the panelists have to
identify the animal. Ferrer is fully
costumed for his first scene in the Broadway show The Girl Who Came to Supper (1963), which is playing across the
street from the TV studio and which starts the moment I’ve Got a Secret ends. The musical,
which also starred Florence Henderson, opened on December 8, 1963 and would run
for 112 performances. Its original
opening number “Long Live the King (If He Can)” was cut from the show in
previews after the assassination of John F Kennedy.
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