Agree, but Fred should’ve tried during the introductions, as opposed to consistently attempting humor at Arlene’s expense. When Fred said Arlene’s bird spoke with an English accent because of the British newspaper on the floor of its cage, I thought Fred could best be described as the stuff the bird deposited on the paper. Arlene deserved an appropriate introduction.
Miss Devereaux graduated from Mercy School of Nursing in Detroit, and met and married a gent named John Coe in 1957. (Well, she married him in 1957, I assume they met earlier than that.) I don't know if she kept up nursing after that, though I would bet so; they had four kids, a bunch of grandkids, and a pretty good life together. He was a teacher & coach at the West Bloomfield (Michigan) schools, and was the kind of person Everyone Knew. She goes by Margo now, and, as far as I can tell, is still with us.
@@accomplice55 Whoops! Yes indeed, thank you for the correction. I shall edit. (I think my problem is that they also lived in Bloomington, Indiana, at one point, so I conflated the two.)
Joe E. Lewis was not just a great entertainer but a gutsy guy who stood up for himself and made a miraculous comeback despite the odds against it. A man to be admired.
From what I can make out from Google, Lee Stath is still with us and still riding his motorcycle in his late 80's. I guess flying through the air for a living is one of the secrets to a long life.
The poise of the first challenger was quite apparent from the beginning of her segment. There was no surprise that she was a top level beauty contest winner, seeing that poise is an important part of what takes to win. Her profession was rather ordinary by WML standards. They might have assumed that the panelists wouldn't associate someone who was a nurse with being successful in beauty pageants.
@Jon Boy When I had my son I thought all my nurses were beautiful. I later read that is a phenomenon resulting from going through an awful experience. You see your rescuers as being better looking than what they are. Firemen get this.
Interesting how they consistently sign in with good penmanship ... a skill that is fading away, certainly here the U..K. as it is not taught in schools.
What are you blabbering about? They still teach joined up or real writing from primary school, 7 years old. They did when i was 7 in 83 and my 8 year old niece started last year. There have always been scruffy writers like me and beautiful writers, there always will be. The UK is 4 separate countries each distinct from the next, each with their own laws and culture, so why are you generalizing the whole of it like ignorant Americans do? It's more interesting how people from 4 separate countries are losing their identity through silly generalizations. I am an English man not a UK man!
Candice Honeycutt -- Not in my section of the Houston area. All of us "old folks" can't believe it. I'm glad it's still being taught elsewhere. Thanks for the good news! 😊
Thank you for posting these in what seems like a few chronologically each day or two. I really look forward to these and hope you have many many many episodes of WML yet to be posted. Thanks!
@@WhatsMyLine Well, I'm glad it went out of reruns if I may say so myself, otherwise, you wouldn't upload them and I wouldn't have known about this show, you see, me being from another country and all.
In the past, there have been a number of comments about challengers who come from the borough of Queens identifying themselves as coming from Long Island. The second challenger comes from Bellerose. That is a community that was divided in two when the western part of Queens County became the borough of Queens and was incorporated into NYC and the eastern part became a new county (Nassau County) and didn't become part of NYC. Bellerose is divided where a short section of the boundary between Queens and Nassau runs east-west rather than north-south. North of Jericho Turnpike, Bellerose is a neighborhood in Queens. South of that road, it is a village in Nassau County. And once the road is totally in NYC, it becomes Jamaica Avenue. Directly south of the village of Bellerose is Belmont Park in the hamlet of Elmont where the third leg of horse racing's Triple Crown is held. The challenger and the business she worked for was well located. And Eddie Arcaro who was a part owner of the business was one of the greatest jockeys of all time. He rode more horses to Triple Crown victories (17) than any other jockey, winning the most Belmonts (6), the most Preaknesses (6) and tied for the most Kentucky Derby wins with Bill Hartack (5). He raced professionally from 1932 (at age 16) to 1962. The 5'2" tall jockey rode in 24,092 races and won 4,779 times.
I am such an admirer of Joe E. Lewis. I’ve uploaded elsewhere on this site the song that Bennett mentions which Joe sang about What’s My Line. It’s a great parody. He was amazing, and it’s a shame he is forgotten today. To me, he was the greatest nightclub comic of the era.
@@rharvey2124 yes he did, I know of the film “Private Buckaroo” with the Andrews sisters and many Ed Sullivan show appearances, along with at least 2 What’s My Line? appearances. He was great :)
@@fonso1030 Thanks. Wow. TH-cam has lots of his work online. Sinatra played him in The Joker's Wild. Lots of celebs were always making references to him if I remember right.
@@rharvey2124 I’ve added a few songs of his on TH-cam and his whole LP. It’s amazing how he lived through the throat slashing, he really made a great comeback. He was a unique entertainer :)
Bennet's crack about Joe E being an officer in the Prohibition Society sure touched a nerve. John forbade any further talk of that. I wish I knew what that was about.
16:18 Joe’s face after the question was just great 😂. His expressions from the moment he comes on just make you happy. What a cheery, funny guy, and a survivor of a mafia hit. Now that’s admirable. RIP Joseph Klewan (1902-1971)
From Wiki: In Chicago in 1927, Lewis refused the request of Jack "Machine Gun" McGurn (an Al Capone lieutenant) to renew a contract that would have bound him to sing and perform at the Green Mill Cocktail Lounge, which was partly owned by Capone. After refusing, because he had been offered more money by a rival gang to appear at their own club, "The New Rendezvous", he was assaulted in his 10th floor Commonwealth Hotel room, in November 1927, by three enforcers sent by McGurn. The enforcers, who included Sam Giancana and Leonard "Needles" Gianola, mutilated Lewis (his throat and tongue were cut) and left him for dead. It took him several years to be able to speak again."
Lee "Skeeter" Stath (1926-2021) (ne Angel Leon Sonny Stath), the notable catcher in a flying trapeze act, wrote a book about his late wife Mary Rose (1917-2022), a trapeze flyer, entitled "She Flies Through the Air." The book was published a year after her death. They were part of an act called "The Flying Marilees." He died of cancer and she of complications from Altzheimer's disease.
Dorothy mentioned that she was named an honorary Admiral of the Navy of the state of Nebraska. It has usually been given by the Governor of the state of Nebraska for charitable work done that benefited their state.
oldfart4751 It's an ironic title, obviously. Like being made a Kentucky Colonel, as in Kentucky Colonel Harlan Sanders of the Kentucky Fried Ckicken company.
It's obvious here why Fred Allen spent his radio career fighting with the censors and sponsors. His crack about a do-it-yourself lynching kit drew some gasps.
FINALLY! The Game Show Network used to show these at 3:00 am each night. Then someone's obnoxious nephew decided that the ratings between 3 & 4 am could be "tweaked" and this & To Tell The Truth (or the Gary Moore show, which one was it?) got the bum's rush, which was my last contact with TV (as a viewer). I doubt these are in chronological order as they originally aired (since Fred Allen was not likely to have been an original panelist), but who cares? Thank you.
Don Reed Um. . . these shows have been posted in chronological order and there are chronological playlists of all the posted episodes on the main channel page. I don't know what would make you think otherwise.
Johan Bengtsson No. I was being a smart ass to Mr. WML, to whom I now apologize, on Christmas Day. And Happy New Year to you, sir. (Mr. WML: My mistake. Please forgive! And thanks for the direction to the main channel page. Now, to open our gifts. I got the Missus a spray of "Channel No. 5" which I am certain she will adore.)
It was more unruly than it was long. The haircut was needed to get the hair under control. Apparently he wasn't paid very well for risking his life flying above the ground on a trapeze.
From www.tv.com Humor author Matt Neuman used this actual September 11, 1955 WML date and wrote a spoof episode entitled "The Time God Appeared on What's My Line?" Read his story here: www.mattneuman.com/whatsmy.htm
It must have always been depressing to be the post-celebrity "contestant". Their segment was almost always cut short due to time constraints. Just one of the many problems with a scheduled show. You wanted and had to try to fill the entire show but the random nature of the show commonly prevented you from doing so with the celebrity guest.
+Jack Decker Shorter play game gave you far higher chances of getting the full $50 payout though since you automatically get it if the panel is unable to fully solve your line. I'm sure most of the contestants getting the equivalent of around $450 today didn't mind too much.
+Deathbrewer I understand that but I bet they would have liked to have been on the show longer. I'm sure they told all their family, friends, co-workers, and neighbors they were going to be on.
+gcjerryusc That's the famous Heidi game when the NY Jets blew a lead to the Oakland Raiders in the final 61 seconds of game time (not running time). NBC had a commitment to the sponsors of the Heidi TV movie (preempting Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color) to start its broadcast on time. When they tried to change that decision at the last moment, communications broke down for a variety of reasons. People in the western half of the country (except in the SF Bay area where the game was blacked out due to NFL rules at the time, even though the game was a sellout) were able to watch the game to its conclusion because the start time of the Heidi broadcast was still hours away. But in the Eastern and Central time zone, those watching the football game missed the last 7 minutes of the game during which the Raiders scored two touchdowns as the Jets had a meltdown as bad as NBC did. As a result of this fiasco, NBC made a number of changes to their procedures, including special private communication lines to the network's control centers and no longer promising that programming following a special event would start on time, which became standard industry practice. I was watching the game with my big brother. We were both Jet fans at the time and were indignant that they would cut away from a close game so close to the end, especially knowing that in those days of the old AFL, offense could be explosive and the passing attack of the Raiders with Daryle Lamonica at QB was especially so. It was especially maddening to not only know that the Jets blew the game but also that we couldn't see it. Since we lived in the NYC metropolitan area, we probably rushed to grab one of our transistor radios when we realized that it wasn't a temporary glitch in the broadcast and listened in stunned disbelief to the rest of the game that way. We probably would have had our radios tuned to WABC-AM, which carried the Jet games at the time, since we were big Top 40 music fans and by that time MusicRadio 770 WABC had become the king of Top 40 rock and roll stations. (One of the promos for the games was "Your dial is Jet set.") Merle Harmon did the play by play and Sam DeLuca the color commentary. A couple of months later, the Jets had the last laugh at Shea Stadium when they beat the Raiders to win the AFL Championship. That made them the AFL representative in Super Bowl III. On January 12, 1969, they became the first AFL team to win the Super Bowl when they beat the Baltimore Colts. It's the only time the Jets have played in the Super Bowl.
Jack Decker I've watched a good number of the show's over a period of time now since I'm a relatively new watcher. I think the way they could have drawn out the time at the end of the show after the guest celebrity was done, that they could engage the celebrity into a little lengthy conversation to kind of take up the time when there was very little time for even a last contestant to be used on the show like if there was 1 or 2 minutes to go. Or they could just engage each other in some useless banter to take up the rest of the time instead of rushing the next contestant on and off.
This has probably been asked before but why do the women guests bring their purses out with them? Just seems odd to me! I love watching these and am completely hooked!
liberty Ann -- having been a Registered Nurse for well over 30 years, I've seen the medical field focus more on profits than patients as the years have passed. The only reason humanity and compassion exist in the field is because of the people who choose to work in it.
@@xyzzyxyzzy2 Correct, but don’t conflate nonprofit, or even 501c3 qualified with truly charitable. Instead of profits being distributed to stockholders as dividends, profits are consumed by outsized executive pay packages. Nonprofit hospital administrators almost always receive more compensation than actual caregivers.
Sinatra was good in the Joe e Lewis movie bio The Joker is Wild but the real Lewis is way funnier ,I can see in this short bit why he was popular and likable..
From what I can find she is still alive. She would be approximately 83 as of 2019. The obit I found for 2014 the lady was already 85 and Devereaux was her married name not her maiden name and was not a nurse.
@@pepperroly Agreed. According to the US Census, she was 5 in 1940 so she would be about 85 as of 2020. Her married name is Margaret Coe, and she was still alive in June 2017 when her brother passed. (How I kill time during a pandemic...)
Bennett Cerf, who apparently was a very knowledgeable sports fan, couldn’t have been more correct when he expected WML to honor the Dodgers feat of having clinched the pennant on September 8, the earliest date in National League (breaking their own record set in 1953 by 5 days). Now the Dodgers were in the midst of what served as a western swing in those days. They had played a doubleheader in Cincinnati on the date of this WML episode and were headed to St. Louis for their next game. There were a number of star players on the Dodgers that year. Don Newcombe as the ace of the pitching staff who won 20 games that year plus also one of the Dodgers best offensive players on a team with a powerful offense, was one of the top candidates to represent the Dodgers on the program. If the Dodgers were in town, there were many players on the team who would have been great candidates to come on the show. There were four future Hall of Fame members, three other members of the All-Star team that year, batting champs and league leaders in other offensive categories, past 20 game winners, World Series record holders, no hit pitchers were all major contributors to the Dodgers runaway success that year. But the Dodgers were out of town. However, my guess is that Bennett Cerf, always on the lookout in the newspapers for candidates for mystery guests, may have known something. On the day after the Dodgers clinched the pennant, Newcombe started a game in Chicago and was knocked out after two innings. He didn’t pitch again until September 20. He had been bothered by a sore arm for much of the second half of the season. And while he was the Dodgers best pinch hitter (they called on him 23 times and he batted .381), he didn’t pinch hit during the 9/9 to 9/20 stretch. So it’s quite possible that Newcombe had been sent home to be examined by the team physician and told to stay there to rest up in anticipation of the World Series. But even if Newcombe were not available, there were other team officials in baseball operations who would have been there, excellent candidates to represent the team instead of the hot dog vendor, scoreboard operator and the team’s clown mascot who they did use. It was one more snub of the Dodgers and put down of Brooklyn by WML.
In today's world if Fred Allen said do it yourself lynching kit he would definitely be canceled. Even the audience back then kind of growles when he said it.
Stories about "Man on the Flying Trapeze" Lee Stath: www.expressnews.com/lifestyle/columnists/richard_a_marini/article/Flying-through-life-with-the-circus-5675313.php; dailytimes.com/article_dc3c9bce-d7ab-11e3-9ed1-001a4bcf887a.html . Also, his wife Mary: www.mysanantonio.com/news/local_news/article/Trapeze-artist-entertained-the-world-over-3957952.php
I think the question "would WE wear it?" should have been NO not YES....ppl dont WEAR horse blankets....the HORSE wears it.....the PPL SIT ON THEM.....oh well, we are all make mistakes....
if you were in a horse barn in freezing weather without a coat, you would wear a horse blanket. questions are taken literally. "is it intended for a human to wear" , the answer would be no.
Seeing that the Dodgers clinched the pennant during the middle of the week prior to the September 11 episode of WML, I will discuss the games in chronological order for the remainder of the season. There will be much less detail on the games following the clinching. The Phillies came into town for only a Labor Day doubleheader. They left town after being swept. It was part of why the Dodgers had a better record in 1955 against them than against any other team. Philadelphia had a winning record against the other six teams combined (71-61). In the opener, the Dodgers rode two big innings to beat the Phillies by a big margin. Newcombe went the distance for his 20th win, the second time he reached that level. He also hit his seventh and final home run of the season. The Phillies struck first with a run in the 3rd on a double by center fielder Richie Ashburn. By the time they scored again, they were trailing 11-1. In the Dodgers four-run 4th, Newcombe’s homer with two aboard off Murry Dickson broke a 1-1 tie. After the Dodgers added another run in the 7th, they scored five runs off Bob Kuzava in the 8th, as the lefty gave up four hits (two of them homers) and walked a batter while only recording one out. It was what they wished they could have done to him in the seventh game of the 1952 World Series. A 3-run homer by Don Zimmer put the Dodgers up 8-1 and Pee Wee Reese’s 2-run homer sent Kuzava to the showers. Ron Mrozinski entered the game and immediately served up a home run to Duke Snider. It tied his career best, but he went homerless the rest of the regular season. The World Series would be a different story. Of more immediate concern was what happened next: Mrozinski hit Roy Campanella in the left elbow with a pitch and he had to leave the game. While the pennant was all but sewn up, it would be a major blow to the Dodgers if he would be lost for the World Series. Campy would play in five World Series for the Dodgers and he was behind the plate for every inning of every game. He sat for the second game of the doubleheader but he was back in the lineup on Wednesday. The Phillies managed to get their first four batters on base in the 9th, including a 3-run home run by left fielder Del Ennis. But after right fielder Jimmy Greengrass singled, Newcombe set down the next three batters to conclude the 11-4 win. The Phillies usually matched up Robin Roberts to face Newcombe, but this time they decided to save Roberts for the second game. Carl Erskine was his mound opponent, and the little lefty had the best of it by far as the Dodgers had another easy victory. It was his first complete game since June 10 while Roberts would be kayoed in the 5th inning. This time the Dodgers chipped away, scoring in five of the 8 innings they batted, en route to an 8-2 win. The Dodgers took the lead in the 1st on a rare error by Ashburn followed by an RBI single by Carl Furillo. They scored two more in the 3rd when Erskine singled, Jim Gilliam doubled and Sandy Amoros sent them both home with a triple, although Sandy would be thrown out trying to stretch it to an inside-the-park home run. In the 4th, another Ennis homer made the score 3-1. And they pulled within one in the 5th when Roberts’ two-out triple followed a walk to third baseman Willie Jones. But Erskine was able to strand Roberts at third and keep the tying run from scoring. The Dodgers answered back in the 5th. Gilliam bunted for a base hit and Amoros doubled him home. Roberts then handed the ball to Herm Wehmeier and Amoros was able to come around to score on a ground out and a wild pitch. Two more runs were scored in the 6th. A single by Don Hoak started the rally, a ground out moved him to second and Erskine’s second hit of the game brought him home. Erskine advanced to second on the throw to the plate and was able to score on another errant throw by Wehmeier. Instead of a wild pitch, this was a pickoff throw. A good throw would have nailed him, but instead it sailed into center field and Erskine scored all the way from second. The Dodgers would add their final run in the 8th on a triple by Hoak off Bob J. Miller and a sacrifice fly by Don Zimmer. Erskine retired the heart of the Phillies lineup in the 9th to finish the doubleheader sweep. One other thing that the sweep did: combined with the Giants losing the first game of a pair against the Pirates in extra innings, the defending World Champs and their hated crosstown rivals were officially eliminated from the NL pennant race. Meanwhile in Chicago, the Braves split a doubleheader with the Cubs. The Dodgers’ magic number was now reduced to three. And their fate would be in their own hands. After an off day on Tuesday for the major leagues, they played the Braves in Milwaukee in a 2-game series. A split would clinch a tie for the pennant. A sweep would clinch it outright. And a sweep was what they got. On Wednesday, eccentric and unambitious Billy Loes took the mound for the Dodgers and fidgety Lew Burdette toed the rubber for the Braves. In the low-scoring contest, all the runs were scored in the 3rd inning. In the top of inning, Burdette retired the first two batters. But then Reese singled and Snider walked. Campanella brought home Reese with a single and Snider came home on center fielder Billy Bruton’s miscue, Campanella advancing to second. Furillo’s double scored the third run. In the bottom of the inning, catcher Del Crandall singled with one out. Ben Taylor batted for Burdette and walked. Bruton forced Taylor at second. Second baseman Danny O’Connell singled home Crandall to break the ice. Loes then walked third baseman Eddie Mathews to load the bases. But he induced right fielder Hank Aaron to hit a grounder to third which Hoak fielded and stepped on the bag for an inning-ending force play. Rookie Humberto Robinson hurled six innings of two-hit shutout ball in relief to keep the Braves in the game, but Billy Loes scattered four hits the rest of the way for the win. It was his first complete game in two months. It would also be his last complete game and last victory in a Dodger uniform. On Thursday afternoon, the Dodgers had only a couple of nervous moments before winning the game going away. When Bob Buhl lost his control with two outs in the 1st, the Dodgers took the lead without a ball leaving the infield. Snider walked. Campanella was hit on the right wrist with a pitch and once again had to leave the game. (This time, with the pennant clinched, he took a few days off before coming back into the lineup.) Then Furillo and Jackie Robinson walked to force in a run. A single by Hodges scored two more runs and sent Buhl to the showers. Phil Paine came in and Zimmer greeted him with another single to score Jackie. The Braves cut the Dodger lead in half on a two-run triple by shortstop Johnny Logan off Roger Craig in the 3rd inning. The lanky Dodger rookie ran into trouble again in the 4th. Left fielder Chuck Tanner led off with a single. After Crandall flied out Bobby Thomson was sent up to bat for the pitcher. During his time at bat, Craig uncorked a wild pitch to send Tanner to second. Thomson then singled to left but Tanner stopped at third. Karl Spooner came in from the bullpen and struck out the next two hitters to end the threat and preserve the Dodger lead. With that reprieve, the Dodgers put the game out of reach in the 5th and 6th innings. Ernie Johnson came in to pitch and the Dodgers greeted him with a single by Furillo and a homer by Jackie Robinson. With one out, Zimmer singled and went to third on Aaron’s error. With two outs, Gilliam bunted for a base hit, scoring Zimmer, and then Gilliam continued to second on first baseman George Crowe’s error. With the Braves unraveling, Reese followed with a single to make it 8-2. In the 6th, once again the Braves brought in Burdette in relief following the game in which he was given a quick hook as a starter. He walked the leadoff batter, Rube Walker, who was subbing for the injured Campanella. With one out, Jackie Robinson beat out an infield hit. A single by Hodges scored Walker and sent Jackie to third. Then Zimmer hit a grounder and Number 42 showed his legendary ability to escape a rundown. With all hands safe and the bases loaded, Spooner squeezed home Jackie with the final run of the game. Burdette held the Dodgers in check the rest of the way, but it was for naught. Spooner was in full control of this game. He held the Braves hitless for the rest of the game, striking out nine of the 19 batters he faced. When he walked two batters with two outs in the eighth, the only two base runners against him, he faced Andy Pafko batting for Tanner and retired him on a fly ball to Snider. Although Spooner pitched in relief, there were amazing coincidences with Loes who had started and won the previous game against the Braves. Both would start and lose a game in the 1955 World Series. For both, it was their last victory with the Dodgers. But at least Loes was able to pitch another six years in the majors. When Spooner reported for spring training in 1956, his arm was dead and his major league career was over. But that was in the future. The Dodgers were National League champions for the eighth time in the 20th century. They still had no idea who they would be facing in the World Series. The Indians were clinging to a half game lead on the Yankees, although both teams had the same number of losses. The White Sox were 2½ back and the Red Sox were hanging in at 4½ back and they still had games to play against the teams in front of them.
Bennet the pervert, first he asks about the bathing suit and then he goes for the "is this something a fortunate fellow like Fred or myself could avail ourselves of." Bennett couldn't keep that in his pants, lol.
@@lllowkee6533 ; And if the producers really wanted to play that game, they should have dressed and manicured everyone to the nines, and let the contestants keep the outfits on the way out the door. I have no problem having them walk around, and even inspect their hands, maybe, but to look inside their lapel? That's not right, it's straight up mockery and classism.
It was mostly likely to help the panel see something that would give away the contestants’ line of work. But it stopped after a few years because it was probably deemed mostly useless and boring, and threw off the timing of a live show.
I see no need to have them strut by like at an animal auction. Dorothy often wanted to feel their muscles??? Since they stopped it Im assuming someone or something STOPPED that asinine behavior . They would also mention being fat or overweight etc which was rude beyond believe for these cultured people, including Bennett Cerf whom I admired. I dont understand it??? I suppose we could critique any show of that time period ??? ( I was pre-school age child here)
I don’t think the reasons went that deep, I just think it was a waste of time, especially bc it was aired live, and it didn’t lend anything to the show, either.
Checking the walkby contestants was way to get and idea of what their work was. Many people were doing manual work. Dorothy got good clues by checking them out😊
For the weekend the Dodgers had five games in three days and two cities. But with the pennant wrapped up, they could rest their regulars as much as needed and get everyone in the best possible shape for the World Series. The Dodgers were originally scheduled to play single games on Friday and Saturday at Wrigley Field. A reschedule of the game rained out on Saturday, August 6 led to a doubleheader being played on Friday. The teams split the two games. In the opener, something was clearly not right with Newcombe. He gave up 7 runs (6 earned) and surrendered four home runs in two innings plus three batters in the third inning. All six earned runs scored on the homers. He wouldn’t appear in a game again for 11 days. Bob Rush went the distance for the Cubs in their 11-4 victory. A minor note was that Chuck Templeton made his major league debut in a mop up role for Brooklyn. Templeton had been converted from a position player when he originally started in pro ball. He was a footnote in Dodger history. Appearing briefly in 1955 and 1956, he started two games and relieved in 8, hurling 21 innings. He won no games while losing two, struck out 11 and walked 15, posting an ERA of 7.71. His professional career ended in 1958. In game two (can’t call it a nightcap at Wrigley Field), the Dodgers outslugged the Cubs 16-9 despite being outhit, 17 to 8. Twelve walks issued by Cubs pitchers gave the Dodgers plenty of base runners to drive in with their four home runs (the same number hit by the Cubs). Six was a key number as they scored that many in both the sixth and seventh innings to take a 13-4 lead after trailing 4-1. Zimmer drove in six runs in those two innings on a grand slam homer in the sixth and a two run homer in the seventh. Russ Meyer was credited with the victory despite allowing eight runs in seven innings. Clem Labine pitched the final two innings and capped the scoring with a three-run home run in the ninth. It was his third homer of the season, the only season (out of 11 with plate appearances: 227 at bats) in which he was able to hit a homer. The two teams managed the difficult feat of battling to a split of a three game series. It happened because the Dodgers and Cubs game on Saturday ended in a tie. With the score tied 2-2 in the middle of the third inning, there was a 43 minute rain delay. Each team added another run before the rains halted play after the Cubs made the last out of the sixth inning. After 40 minutes, the umpires decided to call the game. Darkness may have also been a factor, since Wrigley did not have lights yet, but the official version is that the game was called on account of rain. The Sunday doubleheader in Cincinnati would have been a traumatic experience had the Dodgers been in a close pennant race. The Redlegs swept them and the first game was no contest. By the end of the game, the only drama was whether Johnny Klippstein would pitch a no-hitter. A hard thrower with occasional streaks of wildness, he had been tough on the Dodgers all year. Of his eight victories up to this point in the season, four were against Brooklyn. He ended up with a 9-10 record for the season, same record that the Dodgers starting pitcher, Johnny Podres, had at the end of the game and the regular season. He walked four but took his no-hitter into the ninth against what were basically the starters the Dodgers would use for much of the World Series. After retiring Gilliam leading off the inning, Reese sent a clean single into right and Klippstein had to settle for a one-hitter, one of two during his career. But the following year, he would also be part of an unofficial no-hitter. On May 26, Johnny was pitching against the Braves. The Braves nicked him for a run in the second inning when his control deserted him to load the bases and a fly out scored the runner on third. After seven innings of work, Klippstein still had not surrendered a hit. But Ray Crone was shutting out Cincinnati. Manager Birdie Tebbetts broke tradition when he chose to bat for Klippstein in the top of the eighth. The Redlegs didn’t score that inning, but they did tie the game in the ninth. Meanwhile, Herschel Freeman and Joe Black each pitched an inning of hitless relief. At the time, it was considered the first time that more than one pitcher combined for a nine inning no-hitter in major league history. The game where Babe Ruth walked the first batter, was thrown out of the game for arguing the home plate umpire’s call, Ernie Shore relieved and after the base runner was thrown out trying to steal second, retired the last 26 batters in a row was originally listed as a perfect game. That game is now listed as a combined no-hitter. Eventually, Black gave up a hit in the tenth and a run in the eleventh and Cincinnati lost 2-1. And when major league baseball dropped from the list of no-hitters any game where a team didn’t get a hit until extra innings, Klippstein’s efforts were dropped from the list as well. But some baseball unofficial record books keep their list with the original definition. Klippstein alternated between starting and relieving for the first part of his career. But when Cincinnati traded him to the Dodgers in the middle of the 1958 season, they made him primarily a relief pitcher and that’s what he did for the remainder of his career. It was also the role in which he had the most success. He pitched for the Dodgers in the 1959 World Series and against them in the 1965 Series. He didn’t surrender any runs in his postseason appearances. In game two of the twin bill, the Redlegs topped the Dodgers 5-3. Sandy Koufax was given another start. He had struck out 14 Redlegs the last time he faced them. This time, while he wasn’t terrible, giving up 4 runs (3 earned) in 6 2/3 innings, he only struck out 1 batter while walking 6. It was his first loss as a major league pitcher. It was all part of the learning process for the hard-throwing but inexperienced pitcher, a process that was frustrating at times, but at the end yielded magnificent results. In the American League on Sunday, the Indians and Yankees split a doubleheader at Yankee Stadium, while the White Sox and Red Sox split a doubleheader at Fenway Park. The Indians had opened a sliver of daylight between them and the Yankees with a 1½ game lead. The White Sox were 3½ back and the Red Sox were desperately running out of time, 6 games behind. Dodger scouts could start to narrow their attention to three teams.
He doesn't actually always flip all the cards; in fact, he often does not. And the main purpose of the show was for entertainment/amusement, not for the prizes. That's why John, when talking after a round ends, says something about the prize and then says that more importantly, he hopes they had fun
Daly had plenty of time to comment on matters helping to explain the answers given. He did not have to endlessly talk about his life, his friends, his views in the most gooey, insincere terms and then talk so much, when the contestant was capable of answering unaided, that he gave away the game by blithering on about white collars. He just cannot shut up and his moderator position, at which he was good, gave him ample opportunity to avoid this logorrhea.
Agree. Everyone wants to be funny, but not everyone can be. He is better as a straight man. I wish they had had writers prepare segues for him for when he asks the contestant to walk by the panelists. He tries so hard to be clever and almost never is.
There's that blustering guy bellowing in the audience. Yup, he's totally either a paid "audience member" or he gets free passes. But I'm guessing he's paid to laugh to rile up people up. Eeeek, it's so annoying. It goes beyond enticing the audience into replying and is actually distracting as hell. I just want to clock him. No manners, especially for 1950's public.
Free passes meant some fans were in the audience so often that some show hosts would even chat with them some on air. How many us if living in NYC then would have gone to WML, TTTT, and / or I've Got a Secret? Raise your hand.
I attended this show on a regular basis. Admission was free. This guy Jim Obrian was a audience attendee. Obviously he really enjoyed the show as I did. Many people were just vocal 😅
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I wish I could reach back across time and tell these people how much I appreciate and adore them. This show is a treasure.
I'm so sorry Fred Allen passed away at such a young age; he was a treasure.
Arlene Francis was too beautifully charming for words too explain
Agree, but Fred should’ve tried during the introductions, as opposed to consistently attempting humor at Arlene’s expense. When Fred said Arlene’s bird spoke with an English accent because of the British newspaper on the floor of its cage, I thought Fred could best be described as the stuff the bird deposited on the paper. Arlene deserved an appropriate introduction.
Fred Allen has to be one of the least funny comedians I’ve ever seen. I guess what was considered funny in the fifties was different than now.
@@trock6577 Yes; regarding peoples' tastes, a LOT was different back then.
@@trock6577You're correct😊
" I just can't afford a haircut. " Ha ha ha.. one of the sharpest, on-the-spot answers I've ever heard on WML?
Agree.
Miss Devereaux graduated from Mercy School of Nursing in Detroit, and met and married a gent named John Coe in 1957. (Well, she married him in 1957, I assume they met earlier than that.) I don't know if she kept up nursing after that, though I would bet so; they had four kids, a bunch of grandkids, and a pretty good life together. He was a teacher & coach at the West Bloomfield (Michigan) schools, and was the kind of person Everyone Knew.
She goes by Margo now, and, as far as I can tell, is still with us.
Do you mean West Bloomfield?
@@accomplice55 Whoops! Yes indeed, thank you for the correction. I shall edit.
(I think my problem is that they also lived in Bloomington, Indiana, at one point, so I conflated the two.)
@@juliansinger: I grew up near West Bloomfield, so I thought that was probably it. :)
Wonder what part Blanche was in the family? 😂❤ #iykyk
Joe E. Lewis was not just a great
entertainer but a gutsy guy who
stood up for himself and made a
miraculous comeback despite the
odds against it. A man to be admired.
Arlene was always so pleasant with the contestants.
I think that the horse blanket Q&A was one the longest string of yeses Fred Allen ever had.
From what I can make out from Google, Lee Stath is still with us and still riding his motorcycle in his late 80's. I guess flying through the air for a living is one of the secrets to a long life.
The poise of the first challenger was quite apparent from the beginning of her segment. There was no surprise that she was a top level beauty contest winner, seeing that poise is an important part of what takes to win.
Her profession was rather ordinary by WML standards. They might have assumed that the panelists wouldn't associate someone who was a nurse with being successful in beauty pageants.
@Jon Boy When I had my son I thought all my nurses were beautiful. I later read that is a phenomenon resulting from going through an awful experience. You see your rescuers as being better looking than what they are. Firemen get this.
Not all that pretty
Agreed. I couldn't figure out why on Earth they thought such a common occupation for women was worth the panel's time.
@@sandrageorge3488 You kidding??? She was the definition of pretty in my book
Lee Stath was a "catcher" and wife Mary Atterbury was his "flyer" in their circus act. He later wrote a book on his circus life with his wife.
I love Dorothy's necklace
Me too
Ditto
Miss Devereaux was so poised and lovely and game; she could teach today's young ladies a thing or too.
Interesting how they consistently sign in with good penmanship ... a skill that is fading away, certainly here the U..K. as it is not taught in schools.
Ditto in the U.S.
What are you blabbering about? They still teach joined up or real writing from primary school, 7 years old. They did when i was 7 in 83 and my 8 year old niece started last year. There have always been scruffy writers like me and beautiful writers, there always will be.
The UK is 4 separate countries each distinct from the next, each with their own laws and culture, so why are you generalizing the whole of it like ignorant Americans do? It's more interesting how people from 4 separate countries are losing their identity through silly generalizations. I am an English man not a UK man!
2019: cursive writing is no longer being taught in schools. What with text-speak, the "dumbing down of America" continues. What a shame!
Juanette Butts Plenty of schools still teach cursive writing
Candice Honeycutt -- Not in my section of the Houston area. All of us "old folks" can't believe it.
I'm glad it's still being taught elsewhere. Thanks for the good news! 😊
People of Nebraska must have a wonderful sense of humour ...
It's a TRIPLE LANDLOCKED state!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nebraska_Admiral
Dorothy: Is it a type of hospital garb? 7:42
Contestant: You may say so.
Dorothy: If I say so will I get a card flipped in my face? :)
Gil Fates writes in his book that the only reason Joe E. Lewis accepted to be a MG was that he had heard the Show had a good bar behind the scene....
"She's so pretty I'm trying to think of where she would fit in where they'd be no profit attached to it." Arlene, witty as worldly.
That made me literally slap my knee like I'm a old gold prospector. Lmao
Thank you for posting these in what seems like a few chronologically each day or two. I really look forward to these and hope you have many many many episodes of WML yet to be posted. Thanks!
Glad to share the shows. I miss this being in reruns every night-- good to see I'm not the only one!
@@WhatsMyLine Well, I'm glad it went out of reruns if I may say so myself, otherwise, you wouldn't upload them and I wouldn't have known about this show, you see, me being from another country and all.
So thankful we will always have them here..... Haven't watched TV in years
@@WhatsMyLineYou're a very special person to invest part of your life for others to enjoy your hard work! God Bless you 😊
In the past, there have been a number of comments about challengers who come from the borough of Queens identifying themselves as coming from Long Island. The second challenger comes from Bellerose. That is a community that was divided in two when the western part of Queens County became the borough of Queens and was incorporated into NYC and the eastern part became a new county (Nassau County) and didn't become part of NYC. Bellerose is divided where a short section of the boundary between Queens and Nassau runs east-west rather than north-south. North of Jericho Turnpike, Bellerose is a neighborhood in Queens. South of that road, it is a village in Nassau County. And once the road is totally in NYC, it becomes Jamaica Avenue.
Directly south of the village of Bellerose is Belmont Park in the hamlet of Elmont where the third leg of horse racing's Triple Crown is held. The challenger and the business she worked for was well located.
And Eddie Arcaro who was a part owner of the business was one of the greatest jockeys of all time. He rode more horses to Triple Crown victories (17) than any other jockey, winning the most Belmonts (6), the most Preaknesses (6) and tied for the most Kentucky Derby wins with Bill Hartack (5). He raced professionally from 1932 (at age 16) to 1962. The 5'2" tall jockey rode in 24,092 races and won 4,779 times.
I am such an admirer of Joe E. Lewis. I’ve uploaded elsewhere on this site the song that Bennett mentions which Joe sang about What’s My Line. It’s a great parody. He was amazing, and it’s a shame he is forgotten today. To me, he was the greatest nightclub comic of the era.
Think Joe E Lewis did movies and TV also didn't he?
@@rharvey2124 yes he did, I know of the film “Private Buckaroo” with the Andrews sisters and many Ed Sullivan show appearances, along with at least 2 What’s My Line? appearances. He was great :)
@@fonso1030 Thanks. Wow. TH-cam has lots of his work online.
Sinatra played him in The Joker's Wild. Lots of celebs were always making references to him if I remember right.
@@rharvey2124 I’ve added a few songs of his on TH-cam and his whole LP. It’s amazing how he lived through the throat slashing, he really made a great comeback. He was a unique entertainer :)
Bennet's crack about Joe E being an officer in the Prohibition Society sure touched a nerve. John forbade any further talk of that. I wish I knew what that was about.
16:18 Joe’s face after the question was just great 😂. His expressions from the moment he comes on just make you happy. What a cheery, funny guy, and a survivor of a mafia hit. Now that’s admirable. RIP Joseph Klewan (1902-1971)
the great joe. e. lewis. the movie was excellent, and sinatra gave a fine performance.
From Wiki:
In Chicago in 1927, Lewis refused the request of Jack "Machine Gun" McGurn (an Al Capone lieutenant) to renew a contract that would have bound him to sing and perform at the Green Mill Cocktail Lounge, which was partly owned by Capone. After refusing, because he had been offered more money by a rival gang to appear at their own club, "The New Rendezvous", he was assaulted in his 10th floor Commonwealth Hotel room, in November 1927, by three enforcers sent by McGurn. The enforcers, who included Sam Giancana and Leonard "Needles" Gianola, mutilated Lewis (his throat and tongue were cut) and left him for dead. It took him several years to be able to speak again."
You can see the scars on his face in this film and after almost 30 years of surviving the attack.
Bennett refers to the soon to open play, "No Time For Sergeants," based on the Mac Hyman novel published by Cerf's Random House.
Lee "Skeeter" Stath (1926-2021) (ne Angel Leon Sonny Stath), the notable catcher in a flying trapeze act, wrote a book about his late wife Mary Rose (1917-2022), a trapeze flyer, entitled "She Flies Through the Air." The book was published a year after her death. They were part of an act called "The Flying Marilees." He died of cancer and she of complications from Altzheimer's disease.
Dorothy mentioned that she was named an honorary Admiral of the Navy of the state of Nebraska. It has usually been given by the Governor of the state of Nebraska for charitable work done that benefited their state.
+oldfart4751 Maybe that was the whole point.
oldfart4751 It's an ironic title, obviously. Like being made a Kentucky Colonel, as in Kentucky Colonel Harlan Sanders of the Kentucky Fried Ckicken company.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nebraska_Admiral
Hearing Dorothy's happiness in the intro is heartbreaking
Frank Sinatra starred as Joe E. Lewis in the movie version of "The Joker Is Wild".
yep I saw that movie a bunch of times ....first saw it on tv at about age 15...now 52...great movie
London Times on the bottom of the bird cage.....LOL
Mr. Stath about brought down the house! Fun episode.
" Do you work in a side show?" The guest looks deeply offended- he is one of the stars. Fred so often managed to be insulting.
N very intelligent as well she’s the kinda woman every man longs for
Miss Michigan and the trapeze guy would have made a nice couple.
Miss Michigan had an incredibly beautiful smile!
The woman, Mary Civello, horse blanket maker, has the same last name as mine!!
I wonder what Joe gave Dorothy as he said goodbye to her on his way out ? Metals to show her rank? Admiral ✌
It's obvious here why Fred Allen spent his radio career fighting with the censors and sponsors. His crack about a do-it-yourself lynching kit drew some gasps.
It really is a pretty awful joke in any era - shocking back then when lynchings were still a thing and shocking now for the casualness of it.
@@tejaswomannothing much to report
@@tejaswomanpeople 70 years ago weren't appalled by his comments 😊
How unceremoniously John Daly gave Miss devereaux line away.
FINALLY! The Game Show Network used to show these at 3:00 am each night. Then someone's obnoxious nephew decided that the ratings between 3 & 4 am could be "tweaked" and this & To Tell The Truth (or the Gary Moore show, which one was it?) got the bum's rush, which was my last contact with TV (as a viewer).
I doubt these are in chronological order as they originally aired (since Fred Allen was not likely to have been an original panelist), but who cares? Thank you.
Don Reed Um. . . these shows have been posted in chronological order and there are chronological playlists of all the posted episodes on the main channel page. I don't know what would make you think otherwise.
What's My Line? "Um" is a town in Germany.
Don Reed Don't you mean Ulm?
Johan Bengtsson No. I was being a smart ass to Mr. WML, to whom I now apologize, on Christmas Day. And Happy New Year to you, sir.
(Mr. WML: My mistake. Please forgive! And thanks for the direction to the main channel page. Now, to open our gifts. I got the Missus a spray of "Channel No. 5" which I am certain she will adore.)
Don Reed Nothing to forgive!
The last contestant had very long hair and he joked about it and said he couldn't afford a haircut. 21:25
He was very funny when he said that, and again with his response to Fred's query if he performed in the sideshow.
Johan Bengtsson His hair's not even that long.
fishhead06 - No, it wasn't very long even for 1955 -- just getting to the point of needing a haircut by 1955 standards.
It was more unruly than it was long. The haircut was needed to get the hair under control.
Apparently he wasn't paid very well for risking his life flying above the ground on a trapeze.
NURSE
MAKES HORSE BLANKETS
MAN ON THE FLYING TRAPEZE
You win blankets or coolers for winning some races....people save them and throw over their sofas
Seems Dorothy jumped the gun on taking off the blindfold.
From www.tv.com Humor author Matt Neuman used this actual September 11, 1955 WML date and wrote a spoof episode entitled "The Time God Appeared on What's My Line?"
Read his story here: www.mattneuman.com/whatsmy.htm
Funny, apparently he didn't know what the Q meant.
There were times when John Daly gave away too much, with his silly quips.
It must have always been depressing to be the post-celebrity "contestant". Their segment was almost always cut short due to time constraints. Just one of the many problems with a scheduled show. You wanted and had to try to fill the entire show but the random nature of the show commonly prevented you from doing so with the celebrity guest.
+Jack Decker Shorter play game gave you far higher chances of getting the full $50 payout though since you automatically get it if the panel is unable to fully solve your line. I'm sure most of the contestants getting the equivalent of around $450 today didn't mind too much.
+Deathbrewer I understand that but I bet they would have liked to have been on the show longer. I'm sure they told all their family, friends, co-workers, and neighbors they were going to be on.
+gcjerryusc
That's the famous Heidi game when the NY Jets blew a lead to the Oakland Raiders in the final 61 seconds of game time (not running time). NBC had a commitment to the sponsors of the Heidi TV movie (preempting Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color) to start its broadcast on time. When they tried to change that decision at the last moment, communications broke down for a variety of reasons. People in the western half of the country (except in the SF Bay area where the game was blacked out due to NFL rules at the time, even though the game was a sellout) were able to watch the game to its conclusion because the start time of the Heidi broadcast was still hours away. But in the Eastern and Central time zone, those watching the football game missed the last 7 minutes of the game during which the Raiders scored two touchdowns as the Jets had a meltdown as bad as NBC did.
As a result of this fiasco, NBC made a number of changes to their procedures, including special private communication lines to the network's control centers and no longer promising that programming following a special event would start on time, which became standard industry practice.
I was watching the game with my big brother. We were both Jet fans at the time and were indignant that they would cut away from a close game so close to the end, especially knowing that in those days of the old AFL, offense could be explosive and the passing attack of the Raiders with Daryle Lamonica at QB was especially so. It was especially maddening to not only know that the Jets blew the game but also that we couldn't see it. Since we lived in the NYC metropolitan area, we probably rushed to grab one of our transistor radios when we realized that it wasn't a temporary glitch in the broadcast and listened in stunned disbelief to the rest of the game that way. We probably would have had our radios tuned to WABC-AM, which carried the Jet games at the time, since we were big Top 40 music fans and by that time MusicRadio 770 WABC had become the king of Top 40 rock and roll stations. (One of the promos for the games was "Your dial is Jet set.") Merle Harmon did the play by play and Sam DeLuca the color commentary.
A couple of months later, the Jets had the last laugh at Shea Stadium when they beat the Raiders to win the AFL Championship. That made them the AFL representative in Super Bowl III. On January 12, 1969, they became the first AFL team to win the Super Bowl when they beat the Baltimore Colts. It's the only time the Jets have played in the Super Bowl.
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Jack Decker I've watched a good number of the show's over a period of time now since I'm a relatively new watcher. I think the way they could have drawn out the time at the end of the show after the guest celebrity was done, that they could engage the celebrity into a little lengthy conversation to kind of take up the time when there was very little time for even a last contestant to be used on the show like if there was 1 or 2 minutes to go. Or they could just engage each other in some useless banter to take up the rest of the time instead of rushing the next contestant on and off.
This has probably been asked before but why do the women guests bring their purses out with them? Just seems odd to me! I love watching these and am completely hooked!
Rhonda Sewell there were not any lockers. 😉
A powder compact and lipstick?
Probably more of a fashion accessory back then.
@@4seeableTV For money, lipstick and cigarettes. It did have to be fashionable and go with the outfit, however.
As an old friend used to joke, why does Queen Elizabeth carry a purse.. what's in it? ID card? keys to the castle?!
These days, hospitals are profit making organizatios unfortunately.
liberty Ann -- having been a Registered Nurse for well over 30 years, I've seen the medical field focus more on profits than patients as the years have passed. The only reason humanity and compassion exist in the field is because of the people who choose to work in it.
62% of the hospitals in the U.S. are nonprofit.
@@xyzzyxyzzy2 Correct, but don’t conflate nonprofit, or even 501c3 qualified with truly charitable. Instead of profits being distributed to stockholders as dividends, profits are consumed by outsized executive pay packages. Nonprofit hospital administrators almost always receive more compensation than actual caregivers.
@@igkoigko9950 John Kenneth Galbraith was spot on correct about that point you mention.
Sinatra was good in the Joe e Lewis movie bio The Joker is Wild but the real Lewis is way funnier ,I can see in this short bit why he was popular and likable..
Absolutely, Joe seemed like a natural, funny and lovable guy. Sinatra was an incredible talent, but I never found him funny, even when he tried to be.
If she is Miss Michigan 1956 how is this from 1955?
Found her obituary she lived to 2014.
Mick.T. Shaft: the winner was crowned for the following year not the year gone by.
From what I can find she is still alive. She would be approximately 83 as of 2019. The obit I found for 2014 the lady was already 85 and Devereaux was her married name not her maiden name and was not a nurse.
@@pepperroly Agreed. According to the US Census, she was 5 in 1940 so she would be about 85 as of 2020. Her married name is Margaret Coe, and she was still alive in June 2017 when her brother passed. (How I kill time during a pandemic...)
Crowned for the following year.
How could that woman say that a blanket didn’t come in contact to the body if it was a horse blanket?
Because she is just plain dumb
This is not a courtroom. It's a gameshow
A human body😅
Vincent shoulda cut deeper. Anyone ever hear of loyalty?
Only people who aren't in the rodeo say rodayo.
Not so!!😮
Bennett Cerf, who apparently was a very knowledgeable sports fan, couldn’t have been more correct when he expected WML to honor the Dodgers feat of having clinched the pennant on September 8, the earliest date in National League (breaking their own record set in 1953 by 5 days). Now the Dodgers were in the midst of what served as a western swing in those days. They had played a doubleheader in Cincinnati on the date of this WML episode and were headed to St. Louis for their next game.
There were a number of star players on the Dodgers that year. Don Newcombe as the ace of the pitching staff who won 20 games that year plus also one of the Dodgers best offensive players on a team with a powerful offense, was one of the top candidates to represent the Dodgers on the program. If the Dodgers were in town, there were many players on the team who would have been great candidates to come on the show. There were four future Hall of Fame members, three other members of the All-Star team that year, batting champs and league leaders in other offensive categories, past 20 game winners, World Series record holders, no hit pitchers were all major contributors to the Dodgers runaway success that year. But the Dodgers were out of town.
However, my guess is that Bennett Cerf, always on the lookout in the newspapers for candidates for mystery guests, may have known something. On the day after the Dodgers clinched the pennant, Newcombe started a game in Chicago and was knocked out after two innings. He didn’t pitch again until September 20. He had been bothered by a sore arm for much of the second half of the season. And while he was the Dodgers best pinch hitter (they called on him 23 times and he batted .381), he didn’t pinch hit during the 9/9 to 9/20 stretch. So it’s quite possible that Newcombe had been sent home to be examined by the team physician and told to stay there to rest up in anticipation of the World Series.
But even if Newcombe were not available, there were other team officials in baseball operations who would have been there, excellent candidates to represent the team instead of the hot dog vendor, scoreboard operator and the team’s clown mascot who they did use. It was one more snub of the Dodgers and put down of Brooklyn by WML.
In today's world if Fred Allen said do it yourself lynching kit he would definitely be canceled. Even the audience back then kind of growles when he said it.
He was eventually canceled
Cancelled by who? No life losers that's who.
@@peternagy-im4beI’m assuming he meant canceled by the grim reaper, since he dropped dead on the street.
Stories about "Man on the Flying Trapeze" Lee Stath: www.expressnews.com/lifestyle/columnists/richard_a_marini/article/Flying-through-life-with-the-circus-5675313.php; dailytimes.com/article_dc3c9bce-d7ab-11e3-9ed1-001a4bcf887a.html . Also, his wife Mary: www.mysanantonio.com/news/local_news/article/Trapeze-artist-entertained-the-world-over-3957952.php
I think the question "would WE wear it?" should have been NO not YES....ppl dont WEAR horse blankets....the HORSE wears it.....the PPL SIT ON THEM.....oh well, we are all make mistakes....
Actually, Fred phrased the question as "is it something that might be worn?"
if you were in a horse barn in freezing weather without a coat, you would wear a horse blanket.
questions are taken literally. "is it intended for a human to wear" , the answer would be no.
Breeding, training and racing horses, have wrapped myself in a horse blanket many times
Joe was great in "Some Like It Hot"
theblueman57 You are correct, sir-- that was Joe E. Brown, not Lewis. He got to say the classic final line of the whole movie, "Nobody's perfect!"
Different Joe E. (Brown).
Joe E.Brown
Seeing that the Dodgers clinched the pennant during the middle of the week prior to the September 11 episode of WML, I will discuss the games in chronological order for the remainder of the season. There will be much less detail on the games following the clinching.
The Phillies came into town for only a Labor Day doubleheader. They left town after being swept. It was part of why the Dodgers had a better record in 1955 against them than against any other team. Philadelphia had a winning record against the other six teams combined (71-61).
In the opener, the Dodgers rode two big innings to beat the Phillies by a big margin. Newcombe went the distance for his 20th win, the second time he reached that level. He also hit his seventh and final home run of the season.
The Phillies struck first with a run in the 3rd on a double by center fielder Richie Ashburn. By the time they scored again, they were trailing 11-1.
In the Dodgers four-run 4th, Newcombe’s homer with two aboard off Murry Dickson broke a 1-1 tie. After the Dodgers added another run in the 7th, they scored five runs off Bob Kuzava in the 8th, as the lefty gave up four hits (two of them homers) and walked a batter while only recording one out. It was what they wished they could have done to him in the seventh game of the 1952 World Series. A 3-run homer by Don Zimmer put the Dodgers up 8-1 and Pee Wee Reese’s 2-run homer sent Kuzava to the showers. Ron Mrozinski entered the game and immediately served up a home run to Duke Snider. It tied his career best, but he went homerless the rest of the regular season. The World Series would be a different story.
Of more immediate concern was what happened next: Mrozinski hit Roy Campanella in the left elbow with a pitch and he had to leave the game. While the pennant was all but sewn up, it would be a major blow to the Dodgers if he would be lost for the World Series. Campy would play in five World Series for the Dodgers and he was behind the plate for every inning of every game. He sat for the second game of the doubleheader but he was back in the lineup on Wednesday.
The Phillies managed to get their first four batters on base in the 9th, including a 3-run home run by left fielder Del Ennis. But after right fielder Jimmy Greengrass singled, Newcombe set down the next three batters to conclude the 11-4 win.
The Phillies usually matched up Robin Roberts to face Newcombe, but this time they decided to save Roberts for the second game. Carl Erskine was his mound opponent, and the little lefty had the best of it by far as the Dodgers had another easy victory. It was his first complete game since June 10 while Roberts would be kayoed in the 5th inning. This time the Dodgers chipped away, scoring in five of the 8 innings they batted, en route to an 8-2 win.
The Dodgers took the lead in the 1st on a rare error by Ashburn followed by an RBI single by Carl Furillo. They scored two more in the 3rd when Erskine singled, Jim Gilliam doubled and Sandy Amoros sent them both home with a triple, although Sandy would be thrown out trying to stretch it to an inside-the-park home run.
In the 4th, another Ennis homer made the score 3-1. And they pulled within one in the 5th when Roberts’ two-out triple followed a walk to third baseman Willie Jones. But Erskine was able to strand Roberts at third and keep the tying run from scoring.
The Dodgers answered back in the 5th. Gilliam bunted for a base hit and Amoros doubled him home. Roberts then handed the ball to Herm Wehmeier and Amoros was able to come around to score on a ground out and a wild pitch.
Two more runs were scored in the 6th. A single by Don Hoak started the rally, a ground out moved him to second and Erskine’s second hit of the game brought him home. Erskine advanced to second on the throw to the plate and was able to score on another errant throw by Wehmeier. Instead of a wild pitch, this was a pickoff throw. A good throw would have nailed him, but instead it sailed into center field and Erskine scored all the way from second.
The Dodgers would add their final run in the 8th on a triple by Hoak off Bob J. Miller and a sacrifice fly by Don Zimmer. Erskine retired the heart of the Phillies lineup in the 9th to finish the doubleheader sweep. One other thing that the sweep did: combined with the Giants losing the first game of a pair against the Pirates in extra innings, the defending World Champs and their hated crosstown rivals were officially eliminated from the NL pennant race.
Meanwhile in Chicago, the Braves split a doubleheader with the Cubs. The Dodgers’ magic number was now reduced to three. And their fate would be in their own hands. After an off day on Tuesday for the major leagues, they played the Braves in Milwaukee in a 2-game series. A split would clinch a tie for the pennant. A sweep would clinch it outright. And a sweep was what they got.
On Wednesday, eccentric and unambitious Billy Loes took the mound for the Dodgers and fidgety Lew Burdette toed the rubber for the Braves. In the low-scoring contest, all the runs were scored in the 3rd inning.
In the top of inning, Burdette retired the first two batters. But then Reese singled and Snider walked. Campanella brought home Reese with a single and Snider came home on center fielder Billy Bruton’s miscue, Campanella advancing to second. Furillo’s double scored the third run.
In the bottom of the inning, catcher Del Crandall singled with one out. Ben Taylor batted for Burdette and walked. Bruton forced Taylor at second. Second baseman Danny O’Connell singled home Crandall to break the ice. Loes then walked third baseman Eddie Mathews to load the bases. But he induced right fielder Hank Aaron to hit a grounder to third which Hoak fielded and stepped on the bag for an inning-ending force play.
Rookie Humberto Robinson hurled six innings of two-hit shutout ball in relief to keep the Braves in the game, but Billy Loes scattered four hits the rest of the way for the win. It was his first complete game in two months. It would also be his last complete game and last victory in a Dodger uniform.
On Thursday afternoon, the Dodgers had only a couple of nervous moments before winning the game going away. When Bob Buhl lost his control with two outs in the 1st, the Dodgers took the lead without a ball leaving the infield. Snider walked. Campanella was hit on the right wrist with a pitch and once again had to leave the game. (This time, with the pennant clinched, he took a few days off before coming back into the lineup.) Then Furillo and Jackie Robinson walked to force in a run. A single by Hodges scored two more runs and sent Buhl to the showers. Phil Paine came in and Zimmer greeted him with another single to score Jackie.
The Braves cut the Dodger lead in half on a two-run triple by shortstop Johnny Logan off Roger Craig in the 3rd inning. The lanky Dodger rookie ran into trouble again in the 4th. Left fielder Chuck Tanner led off with a single. After Crandall flied out Bobby Thomson was sent up to bat for the pitcher. During his time at bat, Craig uncorked a wild pitch to send Tanner to second. Thomson then singled to left but Tanner stopped at third. Karl Spooner came in from the bullpen and struck out the next two hitters to end the threat and preserve the Dodger lead.
With that reprieve, the Dodgers put the game out of reach in the 5th and 6th innings. Ernie Johnson came in to pitch and the Dodgers greeted him with a single by Furillo and a homer by Jackie Robinson. With one out, Zimmer singled and went to third on Aaron’s error. With two outs, Gilliam bunted for a base hit, scoring Zimmer, and then Gilliam continued to second on first baseman George Crowe’s error. With the Braves unraveling, Reese followed with a single to make it 8-2.
In the 6th, once again the Braves brought in Burdette in relief following the game in which he was given a quick hook as a starter. He walked the leadoff batter, Rube Walker, who was subbing for the injured Campanella. With one out, Jackie Robinson beat out an infield hit. A single by Hodges scored Walker and sent Jackie to third. Then Zimmer hit a grounder and Number 42 showed his legendary ability to escape a rundown. With all hands safe and the bases loaded, Spooner squeezed home Jackie with the final run of the game.
Burdette held the Dodgers in check the rest of the way, but it was for naught. Spooner was in full control of this game. He held the Braves hitless for the rest of the game, striking out nine of the 19 batters he faced. When he walked two batters with two outs in the eighth, the only two base runners against him, he faced Andy Pafko batting for Tanner and retired him on a fly ball to Snider.
Although Spooner pitched in relief, there were amazing coincidences with Loes who had started and won the previous game against the Braves. Both would start and lose a game in the 1955 World Series. For both, it was their last victory with the Dodgers. But at least Loes was able to pitch another six years in the majors. When Spooner reported for spring training in 1956, his arm was dead and his major league career was over.
But that was in the future. The Dodgers were National League champions for the eighth time in the 20th century. They still had no idea who they would be facing in the World Series. The Indians were clinging to a half game lead on the Yankees, although both teams had the same number of losses. The White Sox were 2½ back and the Red Sox were hanging in at 4½ back and they still had games to play against the teams in front of them.
Bennet the pervert, first he asks about the bathing suit and then he goes for the "is this something a fortunate fellow like Fred or myself could avail ourselves of." Bennett couldn't keep that in his pants, lol.
70 years ago this questioning was acceptable 😊
Unfortunately the guests make the mistake of thinking the host is on their side.
He is not on their side, he is supplicant to the panelists only.
There are no sides...this not WAR
I didn't like they always talked about Arlene being attractive. She gloded in that. Dorathy was just as pretty.
GLOATED??
Arlene never gloated. She was just confident in her own skin.
Arlene wasn't attractive, she was gorgeous and intelligent woman 😊
What’s up with this walking around in front of panel?
To better judge a persons station in life!
Unnecessary!! The Walk of Shame.
What were the producers thinking???
@@lllowkee6533 ; And if the producers really wanted to play that game, they should have dressed and manicured everyone to the nines, and let the contestants keep the outfits on the way out the door.
I have no problem having them walk around, and even inspect their hands, maybe, but to look inside their lapel?
That's not right, it's straight up mockery and classism.
It was mostly likely to help the panel see something that would give away the contestants’ line of work. But it stopped after a few years because it was probably deemed mostly useless and boring, and threw off the timing of a live show.
@@fonso1030You have the correct answer😊 The younger crowd doesn't get it!😅
In today’s world Cerf would not have lasted on that panel for 5 minutes. What rude, obnoxious person.
In today's world Cerf would be considered a genius compared to the shallow morons on television nowadays.
I met Bennett Cerf once. He was a total gentleman.
Lmao Today’s world is nothing to be used as a good reference point 😂
@@fonso1030I agree 👍 💯 percent
I see no need to have them strut by like at an animal auction. Dorothy often wanted to feel their muscles???
Since they stopped it Im assuming someone or something STOPPED that asinine behavior .
They would also mention being fat or overweight etc which was rude beyond believe for these cultured people,
including Bennett Cerf whom I admired. I dont understand it???
I suppose we could critique any show of that time period ??? ( I was pre-school age child here)
I don’t think the reasons went that deep, I just think it was a waste of time, especially bc it was aired live, and it didn’t lend anything to the show, either.
Checking the walkby contestants was way to get and idea of what their work was. Many people were doing manual work. Dorothy got good clues by checking them out😊
For the weekend the Dodgers had five games in three days and two cities. But with the pennant wrapped up, they could rest their regulars as much as needed and get everyone in the best possible shape for the World Series.
The Dodgers were originally scheduled to play single games on Friday and Saturday at Wrigley Field. A reschedule of the game rained out on Saturday, August 6 led to a doubleheader being played on Friday. The teams split the two games.
In the opener, something was clearly not right with Newcombe. He gave up 7 runs (6 earned) and surrendered four home runs in two innings plus three batters in the third inning. All six earned runs scored on the homers. He wouldn’t appear in a game again for 11 days. Bob Rush went the distance for the Cubs in their 11-4 victory.
A minor note was that Chuck Templeton made his major league debut in a mop up role for Brooklyn. Templeton had been converted from a position player when he originally started in pro ball. He was a footnote in Dodger history. Appearing briefly in 1955 and 1956, he started two games and relieved in 8, hurling 21 innings. He won no games while losing two, struck out 11 and walked 15, posting an ERA of 7.71. His professional career ended in 1958.
In game two (can’t call it a nightcap at Wrigley Field), the Dodgers outslugged the Cubs 16-9 despite being outhit, 17 to 8. Twelve walks issued by Cubs pitchers gave the Dodgers plenty of base runners to drive in with their four home runs (the same number hit by the Cubs). Six was a key number as they scored that many in both the sixth and seventh innings to take a 13-4 lead after trailing 4-1. Zimmer drove in six runs in those two innings on a grand slam homer in the sixth and a two run homer in the seventh. Russ Meyer was credited with the victory despite allowing eight runs in seven innings. Clem Labine pitched the final two innings and capped the scoring with a three-run home run in the ninth. It was his third homer of the season, the only season (out of 11 with plate appearances: 227 at bats) in which he was able to hit a homer.
The two teams managed the difficult feat of battling to a split of a three game series. It happened because the Dodgers and Cubs game on Saturday ended in a tie. With the score tied 2-2 in the middle of the third inning, there was a 43 minute rain delay. Each team added another run before the rains halted play after the Cubs made the last out of the sixth inning. After 40 minutes, the umpires decided to call the game. Darkness may have also been a factor, since Wrigley did not have lights yet, but the official version is that the game was called on account of rain.
The Sunday doubleheader in Cincinnati would have been a traumatic experience had the Dodgers been in a close pennant race. The Redlegs swept them and the first game was no contest. By the end of the game, the only drama was whether Johnny Klippstein would pitch a no-hitter. A hard thrower with occasional streaks of wildness, he had been tough on the Dodgers all year. Of his eight victories up to this point in the season, four were against Brooklyn. He ended up with a 9-10 record for the season, same record that the Dodgers starting pitcher, Johnny Podres, had at the end of the game and the regular season.
He walked four but took his no-hitter into the ninth against what were basically the starters the Dodgers would use for much of the World Series. After retiring Gilliam leading off the inning, Reese sent a clean single into right and Klippstein had to settle for a one-hitter, one of two during his career. But the following year, he would also be part of an unofficial no-hitter.
On May 26, Johnny was pitching against the Braves. The Braves nicked him for a run in the second inning when his control deserted him to load the bases and a fly out scored the runner on third. After seven innings of work, Klippstein still had not surrendered a hit. But Ray Crone was shutting out Cincinnati. Manager Birdie Tebbetts broke tradition when he chose to bat for Klippstein in the top of the eighth. The Redlegs didn’t score that inning, but they did tie the game in the ninth. Meanwhile, Herschel Freeman and Joe Black each pitched an inning of hitless relief. At the time, it was considered the first time that more than one pitcher combined for a nine inning no-hitter in major league history. The game where Babe Ruth walked the first batter, was thrown out of the game for arguing the home plate umpire’s call, Ernie Shore relieved and after the base runner was thrown out trying to steal second, retired the last 26 batters in a row was originally listed as a perfect game. That game is now listed as a combined no-hitter.
Eventually, Black gave up a hit in the tenth and a run in the eleventh and Cincinnati lost 2-1. And when major league baseball dropped from the list of no-hitters any game where a team didn’t get a hit until extra innings, Klippstein’s efforts were dropped from the list as well. But some baseball unofficial record books keep their list with the original definition.
Klippstein alternated between starting and relieving for the first part of his career. But when Cincinnati traded him to the Dodgers in the middle of the 1958 season, they made him primarily a relief pitcher and that’s what he did for the remainder of his career. It was also the role in which he had the most success. He pitched for the Dodgers in the 1959 World Series and against them in the 1965 Series. He didn’t surrender any runs in his postseason appearances.
In game two of the twin bill, the Redlegs topped the Dodgers 5-3. Sandy Koufax was given another start. He had struck out 14 Redlegs the last time he faced them. This time, while he wasn’t terrible, giving up 4 runs (3 earned) in 6 2/3 innings, he only struck out 1 batter while walking 6. It was his first loss as a major league pitcher. It was all part of the learning process for the hard-throwing but inexperienced pitcher, a process that was frustrating at times, but at the end yielded magnificent results.
In the American League on Sunday, the Indians and Yankees split a doubleheader at Yankee Stadium, while the White Sox and Red Sox split a doubleheader at Fenway Park. The Indians had opened a sliver of daylight between them and the Yankees with a 1½ game lead. The White Sox were 3½ back and the Red Sox were desperately running out of time, 6 games behind. Dodger scouts could start to narrow their attention to three teams.
Will you please tell me what the purpose of this game show is if no matter how much money the guest gets, he always flips all the cards anyway?
He doesn't actually always flip all the cards; in fact, he often does not. And the main purpose of the show was for entertainment/amusement, not for the prizes. That's why John, when talking after a round ends, says something about the prize and then says that more importantly, he hopes they had fun
@@michaelamacdonald1992 Excellent reply Michaela. I couldn't have said it any better!
Interaction between witty panelists and guests with a secret, under the paradigm of unending 20 questions. WGAS about the money part.
Daly had plenty of time to comment on matters helping to explain the answers given. He did not have to endlessly talk about his life, his friends, his views in the most gooey, insincere terms and then talk so much, when the contestant was capable of answering unaided, that he gave away the game by blithering on about white collars. He just cannot shut up and his moderator position, at which he was good, gave him ample opportunity to avoid this logorrhea.
Agree. Everyone wants to be funny, but not everyone can be. He is better as a straight man. I wish they had had writers prepare segues for him for when he asks the contestant to walk by the panelists. He tries so hard to be clever and almost never is.
Kee-rist, put away the brass knuckles. I'm sure he meant no harm.
@@kennethlatham3133I agree with you 😊
There's that blustering guy bellowing in the audience. Yup, he's totally either a paid "audience member" or he gets free passes. But I'm guessing he's paid to laugh to rile up people up. Eeeek, it's so annoying. It goes beyond enticing the audience into replying and is actually distracting as hell. I just want to clock him. No manners, especially for 1950's public.
Merrida100 I love it, as you say he is in a few episodes, it cracks me up
I enjoy his laugh! I do not think it disingenuous. I like to honk he is enjoying himself. Why worry about it now after so many years?
Personally, I love that guy that laughs! 😂🤣
Free passes meant some fans were in the audience so often that some show hosts would even chat with them some on air.
How many us if living in NYC then would have gone to WML, TTTT, and / or I've Got a Secret?
Raise your hand.
I attended this show on a regular basis. Admission was free. This guy Jim Obrian was a audience attendee. Obviously he really enjoyed the show as I did. Many people were just vocal 😅
francis can not shut her mouth
Very impolite😢