Tom Joyner from Satellite Beach, Florida: “I caught a 370 pound
fish…it took me 19 hours to land it”
On Monday
(and Tuesday), August 17-18, 1964, 15-year-old Tom caught a stingray. He never let go of the line for the entire
ordeal, fortified with only liquids and a single ham sandwich. A year earlier, Tom had landed a 310-pound
shark.
Special guest
Tony Randall reveals answers to questions the panelists were given earlier, and
everybody tries to figure out which one gave each set of answers. Simple but fun game. Randall is appearing in the movie Fluffy (1965), a comedy in which he
plays a professor trying to domesticate a wild lion.
Ralph Eames from Wakefield, Massachusetts: “My band consists of 16
drummers”
The band
performs for historical societies and patriotic groups. They perform a drum cadence here, all performers
but Eames dressed in Colonial uniforms.
In 1937, a 19-year-old Eames appeared on The Major Bowes Amateur Hour, a hugely popular radio talent show of
the day. Eames’ passion for drums and
drum making, especially within the historical context of the Revolutionary War,
would be his life’s work.
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