Mark Frattalone from Miami, Florida and Tony Milasi from
Binghamton, New York are friends who share a secret with a third man
backstage. Mark met the third man in
Miami and: “I mistook him for Tony.”
Tony: “He’s my twin-brother who I didn’t know existed”
The twins were adopted by different
couples at an early age. Roger Brooks
was aware that he had a twin brother somewhere, though Tony had no idea. The two reunited in 1962 and were the subject
of a 1964 profile by Bard Lindeman in the Saturday Evening Post. Lindeman would expand that piece into the
book The Twins Who Found Each Other (Morrow 1969).
Geoffrey Liddiard from London: “We bet 40 cents apiece in the
English Soccer Pool…We won almost one million dollars…It’s tax free”
Liddiard and
two pals received their $886K windfall in March 1965. “The pools” are a popular form of inexpensive
lottery-style gambling in the UK.
Bettors try to predict the outcome of various and multiple football
matches each weekend. Liddiard’s jackpot
was a record at the time, eclipsed many times since.
Special guest Sheila MacRae first
explains how American singers record in different languages by seeing the words
spelled out phonetically. She then shows
the panel what singers from other countries would see if they tried to sing
English lyrics spelled out for them phonetically in their own language, and the
panel tries to identify the classic song.
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