Donald Hewes from Newport News, Virginia explains the contraption
into which Steve is strapped: “It teaches astronauts to walk on the moon”
Steve is
wearing a helmet, and is suspended a couple of feet off the ground, but
perpendicular to the stage. Hewes is head of the Spacecraft Research Branch of
NASA, and designed the contraption.
Steve cavorts in the harness, and with a camera positioned at the same
ninety degree angle, it really does appear to simulate the moon’s lesser
gravity.
Leonore Modell from Sacramento, California: “I swam the English
Channel this summer…I’m the youngest person ever to do it (I’m 14 years old)”
Since Matthew
Webb’s first successful crossing in 1875, the 21-mile span between Dover and
Calais has challenged and fascinated swimmers.
Some, like Gertrude Ederle (
E189
), who became the first woman to swim the
channel in 1926, became instant celebrities.
When Modell accomplished the feat on September 3, she swam for fifteen
hours and 27 minutes, and accounting for tides and currents, swam a distance of
51 miles. Her record as the youngest to
swim the Channel would eventually fall.
The current record is held by a boy who was not quite twelve when he did
it in 1988.
Special guest Connie Francis brings
along original lyrics to popular standards, and the panel, given multiple
choice options, tries to figure out and perform the tune. With Steve at the keyboard and Francis
singing the unheard lyrics to such tunes as “Blue Moon” and “Easter Parade,”
it’s a fun musical bit. Francis will
appear on The Ed Sullivan Show October
11 and is starring in Looking for Love (1964). That film is possibly
best-remembered today as the only movie in which Johnny Carson appeared.
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