On last week’s show, actress Gretchen
Wyler invited Henry to join her and a group of performers on a trip to
Greenland to entertain at Air Force bases.
This show opens with filmed highlights of that trip. Among the performers seen in the film is a
young Rich Little.
Marvin McCamis from Falmouth, Massachusetts: “I’m the pilot of the
submarine that found the missing H-Bomb”
On January
17, a B-52 bomber collided with a refueling tanker in midair. Both planes were destroyed, and seven of the
eleven crewmembers perished. Moreover,
the bomber was carrying four hydrogen bombs which fell to the surface near the
Spanish fishing village of Palomares.
Three of the bombs were found and recovered quickly, but the fourth
remained missing, submerged in the Mediterranean Sea. The search for the fourth
bomb took two and a half months, amidst growing Cold War fears that the bomb
might go off (unlikely) or might be found first by Soviet subs. McCamis located the bomb while piloting the
DSV Alvin. The radioactive contamination from the
incident, as well as the political fallout, continues to reverberate today.
Special guest Joe Garagiola brings
film of baseball plays for Bess and Betsy to describe. Bill and Henry are blindfolded and try to
understand and interpret what they describe.
Later, the women are quizzed about various baseball terms. Garagiola played for four different teams over
nine seasons in the National League from 1946 until 1954, but his mediocre
playing career would be overshadowed by his successful later career as a
television broadcaster. In addition to
his long association with NBC baseball coverage, he would also serve as a Today co-host from 1967 until 1973, as
well as a second stretch in the early 90s.
He would also host five game shows.
Here, he is the play-by-play announcer for the New York Yankees.
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