644     April 11, 1966 (LIVE)
Betsy, Bill, Bess, Henry

Betsy will be playing Peter Pan at the Mineola Playhouse on Long Island beginning April 13.   

Arlene Gotkin from Rosedale, New York and Neal Bitran from Brooklyn, New York: “We met through a computer dating service” and [Sandy Fields] and [Dwight Johnson] from Norman, Oklahoma: “So did we – the computer goofed!” 
Arlene and Neal are engaged.  Sandy and Dwight are both male.  Both “couples” used a service based in Harvard known as Operation Match.   

Ensign Gale Gordon from Akron Ohio: “I am the first woman in history to become a U.S. Navy flier” 
Earlier in the year, Ensign Gordon flew solo in a Navy training plane, the first woman to do so.  Her feat is somewhat lost to history today.  In 1974, Barbara Allen Rainey would become the first woman to be designated as a naval aviator, and that accomplishment is more commonly pointed to in reference works today.  Gordon is studying experimental psychology and used her flight to gain firsthand experience with such issues as vertigo and motion sickness.   

Arnold Hyman, Henry Ross, John Bucher, Eric Hassel, Robert Thompson and Richard Dreiwitz: “We are a Dixieland jazz band” and special guest George Segal: “I used to be their banjo player” 
The men are the Red Onion Jazz Band, a New York based group. They were also known as Bruno Lynch and the Imperial Jazz Band, the name Segal would invoke more frequently in later interviews.  Segal would continue to indulge his passion for jazz banjo throughout his career, performing frequently in clubs and on television talk shows.  After years of small parts on film, TV and stage, Segal has risen to fame in the past year with major roles in Ship of Fools (1965), King Rat (1965) and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf (1966).  He will also be seen in a television adaptation of Death of a Salesman May 8 on CBS.