Betsy is about to begin a run of South Pacific at City Center in New York
on Wednesday, and is dressed in a military uniform as her Nellie Forbush
character because she leaves straight from the show for a dress rehearsal.
G.E. Wheeler from Bloomington, Illinois is the principal of
Bloomington High School, and is about to award trophies to their state champion
basketball team: “They won the championship 55 years ago (1910)”
The
“Bloomers” as they were known then (today the school nickname is Purple
Raiders) are Byron Darst, Fred Wollrab, Walter Sutherland, Adlai Rust and
Harold Hufford. The first basketball game of any sort took place in
Springfield, Massachusetts in 1891, so the sport was still in its infancy. Bloomington defeated Rock Island in the
championship game 32-25, a typical basketball score for the era.
[Harry Lavinski] from Worcester, Massachusetts: “I spent $100 for
a ticket to the Clay-Liston fight”
The
Clay-Liston rematch had taken place on May 25.
Clay (soon to be better known as Muhammad Ali) knocked Liston out in the
first round, so the joke is that Lavinski didn’t get his money’s worth. Cries of “fixing” and a “phantom punch” were
in the newspapers immediately after the fight, and it remains one of the most
controversial moments of a controversial sport.
Special guest Liza Minnelli has Steve
and the panelist describe common objects (a paper bag, an egg beater, a can
opener) to the other, blindfolded panelists to see if they can figure out what
the object is. Minnelli is only nineteen
years old here, and just starting to make a name for herself (as something
other than Judy Garland’s daughter) in the Broadway musical Flora the Red Menace (1965). Like Betsy, Liza is dressed in her first-act
costume for the show, and leaves directly from the studio for a
performance. Thought the musical only
ran for 87 performances, she would win her first Tony Award for her title role.
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