643     April 4, 1966 (Taped March 28)
Jayne Meadows, Bill, Bess, Henry

[Terry Stump] from Brooklyn, Michigan: “Through the efforts of my high school class…” and Basil Jovin from New York City: “…I was freed from behind the Iron Curtain”                 
Jovin’s father had fled Romania in 1947, eventually settling in the mid-Michigan community.  He left behind a wife and two young sons.  The family was reunited in March, 1965, partly as a result of a letter-writing campaign by Miss Stump’s government class.  Basil was a nightclub performer in his native Romania, where he ran afoul of the Communist leadership by singing American rock and roll.  Here he performs the German song “Sieben mal.”   

Mrs. Doris Baum of New York: “I posed as Miss Liberty for the U.S. 25-cent piece”                 
Mrs. Baum, then Doris Doscher, was a model, actress and newspaper columnist who posed for sculptor Hermon Atkins MacNeil in 1916.  She was profiled in a 1917 newspaper article and became known as “the girl on the quarter.”  The Standing Liberty was minted from 1916 until 1930.  It was replaced in 1932 by the Washington quarter still used today.  After Baum’s death in 1970, a small controversy would arise in numismatic circles when a second model of the era, Irene MacDowell, claimed to have been MacNeil’s muse.  Most modern collectors continue to assign credit to Doscher.   

Special guests Phil Ford enters with a toolkit: “I borrowed these tools from a dress designer…He used these tools to make a dress for my wife”                 
Ford and his wife Mimi Hines (who is also on hand) are appearing on Broadway in Funny Girl (1964-67).  Hines replaced star Barbara Streisand late in 1965 and would continue to play the lead role until the show closed in July, 1967.  The couple married in 1954 and would frequently perform together, even after their 1972 divorce.  They were best known for their variety and talk show appearances, and Mimi would also have other notable stage roles. Spanish dress designer Paco Rabanne is in the audience, and we are treated to a brief fashion show featuring his designs as well as those of Georges Kaplan and Betsy Johnson.