Ted Wells from Upstate New York: “I am a glass blower…I’m going to
make a drinking glass out of your handkerchief”
Wells is a
glass blower for the Corning Glass Works in Corning, New York. Corning is such a familiar name in specialty
glass and ceramics that they deliberately did not identify it as Wells’
hometown. The handkerchief is made of
beta yarn fiberglass, and is melted down on stage during the questioning by representatives
of Owens Corning, a different but related company specializing in fiberglass. Wells then blows the glass while Garry
explains the steps in the process in a fascinating three minute demonstration.
Peter Best from West Darby, Lancashire, England: “I left my job
two years ago…I was one of The Beatles”
It’s
apparently a day for hiding hometowns, since saying he was from Liverpool (West
Darby is a suburb) would have been too much of a clue. While the show suggests that he left the
group voluntarily, the truth is that he was fired. Best played drums for The Beatles from 1960
until 1962, when he was dismissed from the group at the cusp of their
fame. The reasons given for his dismissal are
varied, and depend often on who’s telling the story, but years later all
parties would agree that the firing should have been handled better, and it
remains an unpleasant stain on Beatles history.
Best was inconsolable in the weeks that followed, but slowly came around
to media appearances like this one and his place in history as one of many to
claim the title of “The Fifth Beatle.” Here,
he is also promoting his own group, Pete Best and the All-Stars. After being out of the music business for
decades, today Best tours the world with his Pete Best Band.
The show
collected questions from the studio audience for special guest Bette
Davis. The panel tries to answer the
question the way they think Davis would answer, and Davis then confirms or
denies their answers. Lucille Ball would
play a similar game next year (
E597
). Davis
is treated like royalty and is praised for her honesty and forthrightness, but
while she’s perfectly happy to reveal her age (56), she denies having a feud
with Joan Crawford after they appeared together in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane (1962). Their lifelong feud following that film was
the stuff of legend.
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