592     February 1, 1965 (LIVE)
Henry, Bess, Bill, Betsy

Steve notes that the panel is sitting in reverse order, but does not explain why.    

Evalyn Horowitz from Bergenfield, New Jersey, who has experimented with the effect of sound waves on: “Radish plants…The sound made the grow twice as large as normal plants” 
The teenaged Horowitz is a Finalist (one of 40 prize winners out of thousands of entrants) in the Westinghouse Science Talent Search.  Her experiment is displayed on stage during the game, with the radishes hidden, of course.  The Westinghouse Science Talent Search, a competition for high school seniors, began in 1942.  It would be renamed in 1988 when Intel took over sponsorship, and again in 2016 when Regeneron Pharmaceuticals became the new title sponsor.  Finalists over the years have included thirteen Nobel Prize winners and eighteen MacArthur Fellowship recipients.  They also include inventor Ray Kurzweil, who would appear on the show two weeks later ( E594 ).   


Special guest Kaye Ballard performs brief scenes with Steve in Italian, stopping occasionally to see if the panel is able to understand what it is they’re saying and doing.  What they are doing is acting out the lyrics to the winter classic “Baby, It’s Cold Outside” (1944). Ballard made her television debut on a 1951 variety show hosted by Henry Morgan.  She would become a regular fixture on television in the decades that followed, both as an actress in sitcoms and as a frequent guest on talk, variety and game shows.  A talented singer, she also appeared on stage in musicals.   

[Sandra May] from Batesville, Arkansas: “I play on a girl’s professional basketball team” and [Charles Belcher] from Melrose, Massachusetts: “Her team beat my team (Playing men’s rules)”                 
Sandra plays for the barnstorming “All American Redheads.”  Some of her teammates join her at the end for a ball handling demonstration. The Redheads were founded in 1936 and would continue to be active until 1986.  “Men’s rules” is a reference to the fact that in the 60s, there was a six-on-six variant of basketball more commonly played by women and girls.  In this version, each team fielded three “forwards” who attempted to score, and three “guards” who played defense.  They played in two separate three-on-three matchups on either half of the court.  The implication of the day was that it was too taxing for female players to run the length of the court back and forth for an entire game.  That version would begin to be phased out in the 1970s, especially after the 1972 passage of Title IX, the federal law requiring equal opportunities in education. 

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