Bill Ballantine: “This horse is going horseback riding”
“Thistle” is a miniature but fully
grown Argentine horse introduced at the top of the show. He rides a 2500-pound
Clydesdale. Ballantine, a career circus
man, was on the show back in 1959 (
E320
) when he exhibited a flea circus. Ballantine’s latest book is Horses and their Bosses (Lippincott
1964).
Bill Hartley, a golf pro from Oceanside, California: “I gave her
eight weeks of golf lessons” and his student, Claire Valentine of Oceanside:
“My first day on the course I shot a 56…on the first hole”
Hartley says,
unsurprisingly, that Mrs. Valentine was 35th out of the 35 women in
his group class. She has since taken up
bowling.
Special guest Art Carney will sing “When Irish Eyes are Smiling”
(1912) in honor of St. Patrick’s Day, and: “I will accompany myself on an
electric organ…It’s in my pocket”
The small handheld
device is labeled “Motorola Integrated Circuit Chord Organ” and Garry says it
was built especially for the show by the Motorola folks. Founded in 1928 as the Galvin Manufacturing
Corporation, Motorola was one of the leading innovators in the
telecommunications industry for decades.
In the early seventies, they would be credited with introducing the
first handheld portable telephone.
Through several divestitures and acquisitions, the Motorola name
continues to appear on many electronics products today.
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