J.A. Cupler from Cumberland, Maryland: “I have a machine that can
drill holes through a human hair”
Cupler is the president and founder of
the National Jet Company. His tiny drills
have many practical industrial uses. As
one example, they help create an efficient fuel injection system for diesel
engines. A hair is taken from Bess’ head, and a CBS
camera has been fitted with a special microscopic lens, so we see the drill
working live. The National Jet Company
continues to operate today, and continues to specialize in micro-hole drilling
techniques.
Mr. X and Mr. Y: “We’re sports writers…We picked Cassius Clay to
win the fight”
Leonard Koppett of the New York Times and Bob Waters of Newsday were two of only three
sportswriters out of the 46 (Garry says close to sixty) polled by the AP and
UPI at the start of the fight who picked the underdog Clay to defeat Sonny
Liston. The third was Bill Wise of True
Magazine. Waters would cover boxing for
Newsday for 30 years before retiring in 1986.
Koppett covered very few fights in his career. He was primarily known as a baseball writer,
and in addition to his reporting would author 22 books about sports. Garry touches on the controversy already
brewing that the fight might have been fixed, which both writers dismiss.
Special guest Woody Allen: “I am going to make my debut as a
singer tonight…My singing partner is a French poodle”
The dog had earlier made an impressive
appearance on Johnny Carson’s Tonight
Show, “speaking” a handful of words and phrases. On this live performance, he is mostly
uncooperative, even when his owners are brought out to coax him. At this point in his career, Allen is
starting to make a name for himself as a stand-up comic, having first been a
writer for many of television’s top shows.
He is performing at the Blue Angel in New York City, the nightclub where
he made his professional debut as a comic in October 1960.
This site was created with the Nicepage