At the start of the show Garry jokes
about the New York Mets and the San Francisco Giants finally finishing their
baseball game. He’s referring to the day
before, when the two teams took part in a Sunday doubleheader that took nearly
ten hours to complete. The second game alone
took 23 innings and lasted more than seven hours. It remains the longest doubleheader in major
league history. The Giants won both
games.
Louise Farmer and Paul Kalkwarf from Ames, Iowa: “We were brought
together by a computer”
Kalkwarf is a
student at Iowa State University, Farmer works at ISU, and the two are
engaged. Last October, 500 girls and 500
boys filled out a 200-item questionnaire at an “IBM Mixer Dance.” The results
were fed into the school’s computer and the matches were made on the spot. Some months later, Kalkwarf proposed. Three other couples matched at the mixer also
became engaged.
Special guest Victor Borge introduces eight
musicians who play extremely non-traditional instruments. One plays a saw, one
drives nails into a board, one rips fabric, another blows into a seashell,
another releases air from balloons and two play opposite ends of a garden hose
fitted to resemble a clarinet. Rounding
out the group is Nathan Wexler, who appeared on the show as a duck caller last
year (
E503
) and tonight has a new secret: “I play the kitchen sink.” The unusual group, along with Norman Paris at
the piano, performs “The Blue Danube” (1866) under the direction of Borge.
A final contestant, four-year-old
Cathy Holter, was to have ridden her ostrich across the stage, but Garry says
the floor was deemed too slippery for the bird to perform. Time may also have been a factor, since
Borge’s segment, as usual, took up a great deal of the show. Cathy’s father
Gene is an animal trainer with a ranch in California. He tours the country putting on animal acts
that include ostrich and camel races.
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