Ann Strobel from New Orleans, Louisiana: “I’m the only woman ever
to win the World’s Fly Casting Championship”
As a
competitive effort, fly casting (as opposed to fly fishing) is more of a target
sport, with participants aiming for distance and accuracy rather than catching
fish. Strobel earned enough of a
reputation through her efforts that she would make public appearances at trade
shows and fairs into the 1980s.
Ted Jordan from Los Angeles, California: “I get shot every week by
Marshall Dillon at the start of Gunsmoke”
Jordan is
decked out in his western duds. The
opening sequence of the popular western, with Matt Dillon in a showdown with a
nameless, faceless villain, became an iconic piece of television history. When the show moved from black and white to
color in 1966, the opening sequence had to be reshot and Jordan was chosen to
take the fall. Jordan also played the
small role of freight agent Nathan Burke, as well as other assorted minor characters, in more
than a hundred appearances on the series. In the 1950s, he was married to
striptease artist Lili St. Cyr. He would later claim to have had a 20-year
on-again, off-again relationship with Marilyn Monroe.
Special guest Robert Merrill has the
panel play songs on xylophones, armed only with numbers that correspond to
notes, and they try to identify the melodies.
They fail on the first two (“Swanee” and “Rudolph the Red Nosed
Reindeer”) but identify the next two (“Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf” and
“There is Nothing Like a Dame”). See
also
E625
.
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