Pat Carroll, Henry Morgan, Anita Gillette, Richard Dawson
Oliver A “Jolly” Batcheller has an attachment on the back of his car: “It’s an oven. It cools my dinner on the way home.”
Batcheller designed the oven, which operates on the heat
generated by his car’s engine. The
faster he drives, the more heat he generates.
Batcheller is a professor at Cal Poly, where he taught from 1946 to 1977. He was also the founder of Cal Poly’s
horticultural program.
Gene Marvin from Los Angeles reads the minds of the panelists.
In lieu of a traditional game, Marvin simply performs his nightclub routine. Each panelist writes down a harmless “secret” about themselves (Henry hates to fly in planes, Anita’s sister is having a baby) and one at a time, come to Marvin for him to identify the secret. A popular act of the seventies and eighties, Marvin is mostly forgotten today. This is somewhat ironic since he was billed as “The 21st Century Man.” Marvin seldom made television appearances, but instead plied his mentalist trade at Playboy Clubs, at the Magic Castle in Los Angeles and at various Las Vegas venues. He wrote Confidential Mental Secrets (PM Products c1970). Today, the website confidentialmentalsecrets.com indicates that 2024 will bring a new biography about the performer.
Special guest Vincent Price (and others) recreate a classic painting as living models.
The painting is The Cardinal’s Portrait (1896), a work by Toby Rosenthal. Price “plays” the Cardinal. Price explains that every summer, the Laguna Festival of the Arts holds its Pageant of the Masters in Laguna Beach, recreating works of art using live models and elaborate sets and costumes designed to look like the paintings. Del Wagner and Douglas Palmer are the other two models featured in this recreation, and Price acknowledges Pageant director Don Williamson. Today, the Pageant of the Masters still takes place each summer in Laguna Beach. Steve plugs The Vincent Price Treasury of American Art (Country Beautiful 1972), a coffee table sized collection.
Larry Capune from Balboa Island traveled from Boston to Miami in an unusual way: “I paddled a surfboard”
Capune’s adventure covered about 2400 miles in 110 days, finishing up in October. He had tried and failed a similar trip in 1965. He claims his purpose was to show kids that there were healthier “trips” they could take than to do drugs or alcohol. Over time, Capune would become legendary in surfer circles for his long-distance paddling trips, which would continue until his last one in 1987.
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