This show is so much more entertaining than anything on free to air tv in Australia. It’s just plain fun, no drama, no one trying to cheat or be the best
That was a good line. :) I just noticed in rewatching this one that Fred Allen was actually shafted unfairly by John later in that second segment. He asked "You're not an officer for a school by any chance?", and the answer should have been one of those confusing "Yes, he is not" answers. Instead John gave Fred a totally wrong "No" answer and flipped a card, which no one even noticed!
Those backwards questions are tricky. My interpretation of what he said was the same as John's, that is to mean the same as "Are you…?" but I have seen other instances where I thought the ruling on such questions were wrong. (Usually in the other direction.) But I don't think anyone phrased their questions like that to be sneaky - it's a natural way of speaking that just happens to become tricky in this context, as the same phrasing could be used for both the intent of saying "I think you are…" and "I don't think you are…".
What's My Line? He did the same again when Fred (my fav panelist) asked Conrad Hilton, "You're not in politics by any chance?" ... but as RP posted - it can become tricky... Frankly, I would not have thought that he should have allowed the question of, "Are you in the entertainment world?" to have been given an affirmative, without stating his famous, "In the broader sense of the word" being mentioned. Hotels would not be linked with their definition of the entertainment business. Would a Davy Crockett hat really be found in the kitchen? just a thought...
***** If a child had a Davy Crockett hat and really loved to wear it, I'm sure he or she would sometimes wear it in the kitchen! :) As for Fred's getting a "No" to his negatively posed questions on this episode and not on others, I have noticed that it was simply Fred's habit to pose questions that way. I think that in some of his earlier appearances on the show, John may have thought he was deliberately posing the question in the negative to try to get a certain kind of answer (as some of the other panelists did -- e.g., "may I assume that you are not in politics?"). but I think by this time in Fred's WML career, John realized that this was not his intention. (I'm starting to sound as long-winded and convoluted as John Daly himself! Sorry about that!)
***** Hotels in the 1950's and 1960's (through the 1970's, although in dwindling numbers) often had performance showrooms and lounges. The top ones on the circuit of the day (the Persian Room at the Plaza; the Empire Room at the Waldorf; the Maisonette at the St. Regis; the Venetian Room at the Fairmont, SFt; the Eden Roc, Miami; the Fontainebleau, Miami; etc.) were very prestigious indeed. And during the Mystery Guest lines of questioning, a popular one was, "Are you appearing in a hotel room or nightclub?" The Hilton in NYC actually had a performance space right up through the 1990's. Peggy Lee played some of her last engagements there.
It's Jan 20, 2023. I've been watching an episode every evening before bedtime. Laughter is the best medicine and WML is the funniest show around. Guilty pleasure- reading all the posts as viewers of WML are wonderful folks with awesome content which means I end up reading way past midnight, longer than I intended instead of sleeping.
John should never have let Hilton claim an 'entertainment' designation. He was famous and well known, but in no way an entertainer. His was the field of hospitality.
In the May 22, 1955 show, Fred Allen says he received a letter telling him that panel introductions should say “AT my left” instead of “ON my left.” Then on May 29th there have been more letters, so it was changed to “TO my left.” And as the ON/AT/TO debate lingers on... in this episode we have one of each! :D
TO my left seems to be more appropriate, but ON certainly fits, based on language used by fighter pilots in a dogfight (before the advent of missiles). Ex: one pilot warned another: Watch out! you've got a bogey ON your six (a warning that an enemy plane was coming up behind him) -> So, behind, beside....ON or TO, it's 6 to 1 1/2 dozen or the other.
Bennett mentioned the Baltimore Orioles with the first contestant. This was only the second season in Baltimore for that franchise. It was one of the original American League teams in 1901, at which time it was the Milwaukee Brewers (no relation to the current team of that name). The following season the team moved to St. Louis and became the St. Louis Browns. In 1954 the team moved again and became the Orioles. The Browns/Orioles went against a trend in the 1950s by moving from west to east. Teams moving westward during that decade were the Braves (Boston to Milwaukee in 1953), Athletics (Philadelphia to Kansas City in 1955), Dodgers (Brooklyn to LA in 1958), and Giants (New York to San Francisco in 1958). This was a major realignment of baseball, as 5 of the 16 teams relocated within a few years. No major league franchise had moved since the Baltimore Orioles (no relation to the current team) moved to New York in 1903 to become the Highlanders, later renamed the Yankees.
The episode I stumbled upon 3:00 in the morning and found treasure. 😁 It became extra special for me since, like I, the first contestant was from Baltimore.
What a coincidence! This was aired exactly 9 years before I was born. As I watch this, I have a brand new copy of his autobiography next to me on my nightstand that I'm going to read for the 4th time.
I believe the Disney TV miniseries of Davy Crockett starring Fess Parker had recently aired (1954-55), and Disneyland had just opened a number of weeks prior to this WML broadcast (1955). Coonskin caps were all the rage, particularly for young boys, and they could be purchased in Frontier Land at the Magic Kingdom, at department stores, or via mail order.
WML was part of the "publicity tour circuit" for many stars when they went out to promote their latest play or movie. Plus, this was a good chance for the public to see their favorite stars as real people instead of just images up on the silver screen!.
So I didn’t watch the occupation to try to guess along with the panel, but I hit a roadblock right off the bat with the public bath house, because I had no idea what that was. I had a little chat with google, and apparently with the influx of immigrants in the 1800’s, the development of urban slums, and the lack of indoor bathing in low income housing, there was a social reform movement to help “the Great Unwashed”, and public bathhouses were established in several East Coast cities. The first bathhouse in Baltimore opened in 1900, and was managed by the city. People with no access to a shower could go and pay 3 cents for soap and a towel (they had to return the towel), and a person could take a 20-minute shower, and also do laundry in tubs for 2 1/2 cents an hour. Patronage of these bathhouses peaked in 1914, and leveled off to about 600,000 during the 1920’s, but later declined (i assume due to greater access to bathing facilities in later housing buildings and possibly places like the YMCA were established). The bathhouses then became a target of an austerity move (I think this means the city cut funding), and they were ordered closed in 1959. The things you learn watching a game show lol.
A side note on Nelson Burbrink: his first major league game occurred on this day in game two of the doubleheader between St. Louis and Brooklyn, but he didn't reach the majors until age 33. He was signed by the Cubs organization in 1941 as an outfielder, served in the Navy from 1943 to 1945 and then was switched to catching for the 1946 season. Although he never hit for much power, in most of his minor league seasons he shows decent batting averages and fielding averages. In his only year with the Cardinals, he hit a very respectable .276 in 58 games and 170 at bats. He demonstrated a decent throwing arm, throwing out 44% of would be base stealers and picking off two runners. He played most of his career in the Cubs organization, that had catchers coming and going at the major league level frequently during the time period when he was one level below the majors (1949-53). And the Cubs considered him knowledgeable enough to have him manage in the lower minors in 1947 and 1948. Sometimes a player gets a label stuck on them and they can't shake it. Finally the Cards acquired him at the end of the 1953 season and gave him his chance in the middle of 1955. But that was it. 1956 saw him back in the minors and he retired after the end of the 1957 season. He stayed in baseball as a scout with the Cardinals, Mets and Brewers and was the Mets Director of Scouting from 1968-72 and their Director of Player Development from 1973-78.
Well this is rare. A complete shut out of the panel. I don't remember seeing that happen before. Ran out of time on the first guest. Arlene guessed it out of turn and with too many cards flipped for it to come back to her so John penalized the rest of the cards on the second one. They even whiffed on the mystery guest. And didn't have enough time to have much of a chance with the last one.
Small world, one of my first jobs was working at a Hilton hotel back in the day. So Conrad Hilton is the business man who started it. WML advertised and promoted people I would have never known about. Like a self promotion platform gameshow.
I think these uploads tho old are really very very good. It always amazes me where they found those people with such peculiar jobs. Do they hold auditions?? Anyway they are great fun !😄😄
Michael Naisbitt: John Daly gave the public an address to write in, stating their occupation with an approximate time that they would be visiting New York. Candidates were chosen from those who wrote in.
The producers also read the newspapers for feature stories on unusual occupations, it seems. The woman engineer who designed bridges for the Missouri highway department had been in the news shortly before her WML appearance, for example.
I had a David Croquette hat in Cuba! 😅🎉 Love this show so much. I've been binge watching all my well known actors. But some were before my time since I migrated here in 1960 getting away from Communism. Please don't get saddled with Commie/Sociacism. 😮😢
Dick Wilson Yes, but he made up for it later when Arlene asked (about the hats) "Could you carry it in your hand, rather than wear it on your head?" and he let her go on.
"You're not...by chance?" is typically asked in a way that is colloquially synonymous with "Are you...by chance?" That is how Fred used it, so in regard to his usage, a negative response would indicate that the person is not that thing. The show should have had Daly correct the panel on any usage of negative questions to avoid double negatives, similar to the way he had to correct them when they didn't ask a "yes or no" question. Fred in particular often used these colloquial negative expressions in his questions.
Hilton was married to Zsa Zsa Gabor, who also had an affair with his son, Nicky. Nicky was married to Liz Taylor. He died at 44 y.o. of a heart attack brought on by his alcoholism.
Totally based on the challenger looking like he was a police officer. As strange as that may sound, many years ago I worked in a Federal office building and for a time shared the same elevator bank as the FBI. An older, savvy co-worker pointed out that you could always tell the FBI guys in the elevator because they all wore dark suits and had well-shined black shoes. On the other hand, he continued, NYC detectives all wore tweed sports coats and brown shoes. And Hollywood must have had that sense, too, or at least the creators of Barney Miller (Danny Arnold and Theodore J. Flicker, both of whom were born in the NYC metro area). Most of the detectives on Barney Miller fit that wardrobe profile. The major exceptions were fashion plate Det. Harris (Ron Glass) and Chano (Gregory Sierra) who dressed casually, the only one who looked ready to do undercover work.
Halfway across the country in Chicago the same day as the Dodgers 10 run inning against the Braves (June 2), it was a sad day that would become even sadder by the end of June. And it had a connection to the Dodgers through long time Dodger broadcaster Vin Scully. The Red Sox were playing the White Sox at the original Comiskey Park that day, and first baseman Harry Agannis was batting cleanup. Based on his single and double in four trips to the plate (he was in the on deck circle when Ted Williams flied to right for the final out in the Red Sox 4-2 defeat), there was nothing to indicate in the box score that this would be his last game in the major leagues. But something had affected him physically for over two weeks and those in attendance at the game could see signs of it. Who was Harry Agannis? Longtime residents of New England who are sports fans would probably know. Those in the Boston area and especially those from Lynn, Massachusetts, would certainly know the name even now. Nicknamed "The Golden Greek", he was considered the best all-around athlete to come out of Lynn. One of the top high school football players in the country, he was a lefthanded quarterback, plus defensive back (football players played on offense and defense in those days), punter and placekicker who led his high school to a 21-1-1 record during his junior and senior years. Because his father died two years before he would start college, he decided to stay close to home near his widowed mother instead of accepting an offer for one of the nation's college football powerhouses as 75 schools recruited him. He enrolled at Boston University and he was their starting quarterback on November 12, 1949 when the University of Maryland came into Fenway Park to face the Terriers. Maryland won 14-13 to spoil BU's unbeaten season but Agganis would go on to set a school record for touchdown passes that year. One other thing about that BU-Maryland game: it was the first game of Vin Scully's professional broadcasting career, a career that would not end until October of 2016. After his college career was interrupted to serve his country in the Korean War, Agganis returned to BU. He played two more seasons of football and one baseball season. At the end of the football season in his senior year, on November 28, 1952, he chose to sign with the Boston Red Sox for a $50,000 bonus even though the Cleveland Indians reportedly were willing to pay double that amount. Again the desire to stay close to Mom might have played a part. But there was also the matter that the new bonus rule was going to go into effect in a few days. Any bonus over $4,000 would have required the Red Sox to keep him on their roster for two years. Instead Agganis would be able to get some seasoning in the minor leagues. As it turned out he would need only one year at Boston's top farm team in Louisville where he hit 23 home runs and drove in 108 runs. The following spring, he had a great training camp and beat out incumbent first baseman Dick Gernert for the starting job at that position. Although he faded in the second half, he started 109 games and hit 11 homers, drove in 57 runs and batted .251, a decent season for a promising rookie with only a year of pro ball behind him. The next year, he faced a new challenge in spring training from rookie first baseman Norm Zauchin. Zauchin won the job that spring but after his slow start in the regular season, Agganis had the starting job back. After going 5 for 10 in a doubleheader on May 15, his batting average was .307, tenth in the American League. But Agganis was performing at this level despite coughing spells and severe pain in his right side. The Red Sox team physician diagnosed pneumonia in his right lung and sent Agganis to the hospital for 10 days. When he returned to the team, he didn't get a start until June 1. On June 2, when he hit his double in the right center field alley, it looked like he would be able to get a triple. Instead he stopped at second and actually sat down on the base before getting up to continue. Still he remained in the game. And his batting average was .313 as the team caught a train for Kansas City that evening, but he had no home runs on the season. And he was still coughing and weak. When the team trainer examined him the next morning, he was flown back to Boston immediately. A new team of 3 doctors diagnosed him with pneumonia in the left lung and phlebitis in his right leg. Agganis had noticed a lump on his leg back in April but didn't report it. Perhaps the upper body problems took precedence. The doctors’ announcement at the time was grim: that he would miss at least two months of the season, maybe the entire year. By June 16, the Red Sox moved him from the Disabled List to the Voluntarily Retired List. On June 25, Ted Williams visited him and brought him a Davy Crockett magazine. Later that day, Harry's brother noticed him coughing up blood. Two days later, doctors began sitting him up for the first time since his most recent diagnosis. As he was being lifted, he clutched at his chest and complained of pain. A blood clot from his leg broke free and reached his lung. Twenty minutes later, Harry Agannis was dead at age 26 from a pulmonary embolism. There are many celebrities who no one says a bad word about after they die. Harry Agannis was that rare individual who no one said a bad word about during his life. In early June, the world of sports was saddened by the turn of events. On June 27, that world was numbed. But his legacy lives on. Few people who have lived such a short time with that short a career have made that big an impact. Harry Agannis was a rare golden gem who passed through this world too soon.
@@zapkvr thank you for the correction. I'm not correcting however for if I did it would be an act of cowardice on my part and make your admonishment look nonsensical, which of course it isn't.
I wish when they had a contestant, that the title in front of them would show on the desk; GUEST. But, I guess it's too late to do anything about it now ?
Mentioning ENTERTAINMENT threw the panel off. A NON entertainer can stay in Hilton's Hotel. Hilton should buy a hearing aid, he can afford it. Bennett saved the day at the last minute, good for him. (I'm due for one my self.)
They should not have accepted Hilton's yes answer about being in entertainment. It was obvious the panel meant show business. Questions were wasted because of the wrong answer.
Does anyone know why Conrad Hilton was so well-known and liked by the audience? I'm aware of Elizabeth Taylor's having been his daughter-in-law for a short time? WAs he in the news a lot? Thank you!
In a Parallel Universe Paris Hilton accidentally steps into a time machine and makes her way to the show. She wanders on stage saying, "Hey Great Grand Daddy! I'm Paris!" Conrad looks on puzzled. John Daly replies, "We're going to need the Relieving Crew Schedule 2." Paris is removed from the premises and the government quickly deletes all existence of that particular episode...
The politics question was answered wrong ... He was asked if he is NOT in politics and answered "NO" which would mean he would (have been) be in politics.
Mad Men is totally fictitious. Actors recite lines that are provided by writers. What’s My Line is a slice of reality, maybe frivolous reality as one of its producers Gil Fates said.
![What's My Line? - Van Johnson; Mary Healy [panel] (May 22, 1955)](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/w2rlJ1_A3BI/mqdefault.jpg)
![What's My Line? - Jack Paar [panel]; Sheree North (Jul 10, 1955)](/img/n.gif)
I have to wonder what the panelists and John Daly would think of the loyal fan base they have 60+ years later. I am so glad we have them to enjoy!
I love this show! Wish somehow they could reproduce something similar today…but I guess you can’t catch time in a bottle.
One of the greatest shows ever.
they would be very happy.
Good question. I think they'd be happy about that
I love the hats, the gloves, the men in suits and the politesse - greeting each other, then saying good night politely. Classy!! I am addicted!
How about powdered wigs? Aren't those classy? Should we bring those back?
@@gingerhiser7312 why are you trying to start a fight.
This show is so much more entertaining than anything on free to air tv in Australia. It’s just plain fun, no drama, no one trying to cheat or be the best
I remember watching this in Geelong in the 60s. It was on channel nein
Same in the states...network TV is garbage now!
Watching this show is truly a breath of fresh air.
Absolutely!
Yes it is.
Such a great show. A comforting glimpse into how America used to be. Such class and grace and all natural. Very distant from our time now
Very, VERY distant. All class has left our society.
@@jasonbeard4713 I'm classy 🙂
Fred's best line ever: 'when you get started John, I feel like a fly in Alka Seltzer - I know I'm in there but I have no control' :D
That was a good line. :)
I just noticed in rewatching this one that Fred Allen was actually shafted unfairly by John later in that second segment. He asked "You're not an officer for a school by any chance?", and the answer should have been one of those confusing "Yes, he is not" answers. Instead John gave Fred a totally wrong "No" answer and flipped a card, which no one even noticed!
Those backwards questions are tricky. My interpretation of what he said was the same as John's, that is to mean the same as "Are you…?" but I have seen other instances where I thought the ruling on such questions were wrong. (Usually in the other direction.) But I don't think anyone phrased their questions like that to be sneaky - it's a natural way of speaking that just happens to become tricky in this context, as the same phrasing could be used for both the intent of saying "I think you are…" and "I don't think you are…".
What's My Line?
He did the same again when Fred (my fav panelist) asked Conrad Hilton, "You're not in politics by any chance?" ... but as RP posted - it can become tricky...
Frankly, I would not have thought that he should have allowed the question of, "Are you in the entertainment world?" to have been given an affirmative, without stating his famous, "In the broader sense of the word" being mentioned. Hotels would not be linked with their definition of the entertainment business.
Would a Davy Crockett hat really be found in the kitchen? just a thought...
***** If a child had a Davy Crockett hat and really loved to wear it, I'm sure he or she would sometimes wear it in the kitchen! :)
As for Fred's getting a "No" to his negatively posed questions on this episode and not on others, I have noticed that it was simply Fred's habit to pose questions that way. I think that in some of his earlier appearances on the show, John may have thought he was deliberately posing the question in the negative to try to get a certain kind of answer (as some of the other panelists did -- e.g., "may I assume that you are not in politics?"). but I think by this time in Fred's WML career, John realized that this was not his intention. (I'm starting to sound as long-winded and convoluted as John Daly himself! Sorry about that!)
*****
Hotels in the 1950's and 1960's (through the 1970's, although in dwindling numbers) often had performance showrooms and lounges. The top ones on the circuit of the day (the Persian Room at the Plaza; the Empire Room at the Waldorf; the Maisonette at the St. Regis; the Venetian Room at the Fairmont, SFt; the Eden Roc, Miami; the Fontainebleau, Miami; etc.) were very prestigious indeed. And during the Mystery Guest lines of questioning, a popular one was, "Are you appearing in a hotel room or nightclub?" The Hilton in NYC actually had a performance space right up through the 1990's. Peggy Lee played some of her last engagements there.
I really appreciate the episodes with Fred Allen. His wit and humor on TV is as sharp as it was on his radio show. It’s a treat to get to see him.
I agree. His episodes are the best.
It's almost 3 a.m. and I've been watching these since midnight I can't sleep. 2 13 2019
It's midnight on 2/22/19 and I'm not watching WML till 3am, unlike other some nights ;)
It’s May 17 2020, 12:20 am, and I’m up watching WML... and? You’re never alone😂even a year later!!!
It's Jan 20, 2023. I've been watching an episode every evening before bedtime. Laughter is the best medicine and WML is the funniest show around. Guilty pleasure- reading all the posts as viewers of WML are wonderful folks with awesome content which means I end up reading way past midnight, longer than I intended instead of sleeping.
Conrad Hilton started out with a little hotel in Cisco Texas during the Ranger Oil Boom.
His son married Liz Taylor Burton Warner Fortensky Burton Todd
Fred Allen remarks about John Daily's responses are are priceless.
*Fred Allen's *Daly's
John should never have let Hilton claim an 'entertainment' designation. He was famous and well known, but in no way an entertainer. His was the field of hospitality.
Yeah, super confusing that that line of questioning was opened up.
His sparkling personality apparently runs in the family.
well now we got Paris
In the May 22, 1955 show, Fred Allen says he received a letter telling him that panel introductions should say “AT my left” instead of “ON my left.”
Then on May 29th there have been more letters, so it was changed to “TO my left.”
And as the ON/AT/TO debate lingers on... in this episode we have one of each! :D
TO my left seems to be more appropriate, but ON certainly fits, based on language used by fighter pilots in a dogfight (before the advent of missiles). Ex: one pilot warned another: Watch out! you've got a bogey ON your six (a warning that an enemy plane was coming up behind him) -> So, behind, beside....ON or TO, it's 6 to 1 1/2 dozen or the other.
14:19 Bennet deserved a round of applause. A brilliant deduction.
"Evasive, Arlene? ME?!"
Oh, fabulous, John!
Keet Randling - Classic WML moment! At 10:25. :D
"When you're eating the tongue in a tongue sandwich are you tasting the tongue or is the tongue tasting you?" This is too funny!
Bennett mentioned the Baltimore Orioles with the first contestant. This was only the second season in Baltimore for that franchise. It was one of the original American League teams in 1901, at which time it was the Milwaukee Brewers (no relation to the current team of that name). The following season the team moved to St. Louis and became the St. Louis Browns. In 1954 the team moved again and became the Orioles.
The Browns/Orioles went against a trend in the 1950s by moving from west to east. Teams moving westward during that decade were the Braves (Boston to Milwaukee in 1953), Athletics (Philadelphia to Kansas City in 1955), Dodgers (Brooklyn to LA in 1958), and Giants (New York to San Francisco in 1958).
This was a major realignment of baseball, as 5 of the 16 teams relocated within a few years. No major league franchise had moved since the Baltimore Orioles (no relation to the current team) moved to New York in 1903 to become the Highlanders, later renamed the Yankees.
Typically delightful. Thanks very much.
It's a very early memory that I had a Davy Crockett hat! Thanks for posting.
Arlene is so funny I love her 💖💯
BINGE-WATCH-WORTHY
It was cool of Conrad to come on the show.
The episode I stumbled upon 3:00 in the morning and found treasure. 😁
It became extra special for me since, like I, the first contestant was from Baltimore.
What a coincidence! This was aired exactly 9 years before I was born. As I watch this, I have a brand new copy of his autobiography next to me on my nightstand that I'm going to read for the 4th time.
Such a fun ending with the Davy Crockett hats!😄
I believe the Disney TV miniseries of Davy Crockett starring Fess Parker had recently aired (1954-55), and Disneyland had just opened a number of weeks prior to this WML broadcast (1955). Coonskin caps were all the rage, particularly for young boys, and they could be purchased in Frontier Land at the Magic Kingdom, at department stores, or via mail order.
I HAVE 40 Of these programs on DVD and still it isn't enough.
One of the few times the panel failed to guess the Mystery Guest.
Yeah, I wish they would have had more non-showbiz type MGs like Hilton.
WML was part of the "publicity tour circuit" for many stars when they went out to promote their latest play or movie. Plus, this was a good chance for the public to see their favorite stars as real people instead of just images up on the silver screen!.
Not true--Bennet guessed Mr Hilton’s identity just as the panel was running out of time 👍🏻
Mrs. Rowens was a delightful contestant.
Exactly the word I said to myself about her.
So I didn’t watch the occupation to try to guess along with the panel, but I hit a roadblock right off the bat with the public bath house, because I had no idea what that was. I had a little chat with google, and apparently with the influx of immigrants in the 1800’s, the development of urban slums, and the lack of indoor bathing in low income housing, there was a social reform movement to help “the Great Unwashed”, and public bathhouses were established in several East Coast cities.
The first bathhouse in Baltimore opened in 1900, and was managed by the city. People with no access to a shower could go and pay 3 cents for soap and a towel (they had to return the towel), and a person could take a 20-minute shower, and also do laundry in tubs for 2 1/2 cents an hour. Patronage of these bathhouses peaked in 1914, and leveled off to about 600,000 during the 1920’s, but later declined (i assume due to greater access to bathing facilities in later housing buildings and possibly places like the YMCA were established). The bathhouses then became a target of an austerity move (I think this means the city cut funding), and they were ordered closed in 1959.
The things you learn watching a game show lol.
Thank you for researching this! Very interesting!
My mother took the six of us to the bath house. The attendant would give her a discount 😊
I seen this Man’s bio.
Amazing story. Of course his timing was perfect. Also his perseverance was unbelievable.
A side note on Nelson Burbrink: his first major league game occurred on this day in game two of the doubleheader between St. Louis and Brooklyn, but he didn't reach the majors until age 33. He was signed by the Cubs organization in 1941 as an outfielder, served in the Navy from 1943 to 1945 and then was switched to catching for the 1946 season. Although he never hit for much power, in most of his minor league seasons he shows decent batting averages and fielding averages. In his only year with the Cardinals, he hit a very respectable .276 in 58 games and 170 at bats. He demonstrated a decent throwing arm, throwing out 44% of would be base stealers and picking off two runners. He played most of his career in the Cubs organization, that had catchers coming and going at the major league level frequently during the time period when he was one level below the majors (1949-53). And the Cubs considered him knowledgeable enough to have him manage in the lower minors in 1947 and 1948. Sometimes a player gets a label stuck on them and they can't shake it. Finally the Cards acquired him at the end of the 1953 season and gave him his chance in the middle of 1955. But that was it. 1956 saw him back in the minors and he retired after the end of the 1957 season. He stayed in baseball as a scout with the Cardinals, Mets and Brewers and was the Mets Director of Scouting from 1968-72 and their Director of Player Development from 1973-78.
Well this is rare. A complete shut out of the panel. I don't remember seeing that happen before. Ran out of time on the first guest. Arlene guessed it out of turn and with too many cards flipped for it to come back to her so John penalized the rest of the cards on the second one. They even whiffed on the mystery guest. And didn't have enough time to have much of a chance with the last one.
Hilton not one answered "yes" or "no". Wonder if he ever saw the show prior to appearing
Small world, one of my first jobs was working at a Hilton hotel back in the day. So Conrad Hilton is the business man who started it. WML advertised and promoted people I would have never known about. Like a self promotion platform gameshow.
Now I know where my Davy Crockett hat came from when I was 5 years old.
It is unfortunate there wasn't enough time for the last guest. I think that would have been a great line for this panel to try to guess.
Conrad Hilton seemed like a nice man. He sure smiled a lot!
"What we have here is a failure to communicate."
Immediately reminds me of the movie Cool Hand Luke.
I think these uploads tho old are really very very good. It always amazes me where they found those people with such peculiar jobs. Do they hold auditions?? Anyway they are great fun !😄😄
Michael Naisbitt: John Daly gave the public an address to write in, stating their occupation with an approximate time that they would be visiting New York. Candidates were chosen from those who wrote in.
The producers also read the newspapers for feature stories on unusual occupations, it seems. The woman engineer who designed bridges for the Missouri highway department had been in the news shortly before her WML appearance, for example.
@@neilmidkiff I seem to recall John talking about meeting and recruiting contestants while traveling, judging beautiful contests, or some such, too.
They ask people to send a letter with a photo and dage expecting to be in NYC.
I had a David Croquette hat in Cuba! 😅🎉 Love this show so much. I've been binge watching all my well known actors. But some were before my time since I migrated here in 1960 getting away from Communism. Please don't get saddled with Commie/Sociacism. 😮😢
There is no way this show could recreated
Love the hats at the end!
Mr Hilton did actually serve in the New Mexico House of Representatives in the early 1900's.
John should have answered "yes" at 21:15, as Fred couched the question in the negative. John did this to Fred a lot.
Dick Wilson Yes, but he made up for it later when Arlene asked (about the hats) "Could you carry it in your hand, rather than wear it on your head?" and he let her go on.
Right
"You're not...by chance?" is typically asked in a way that is colloquially synonymous with "Are you...by chance?" That is how Fred used it, so in regard to his usage, a negative response would indicate that the person is not that thing. The show should have had Daly correct the panel on any usage of negative questions to avoid double negatives, similar to the way he had to correct them when they didn't ask a "yes or no" question. Fred in particular often used these colloquial negative expressions in his questions.
Fred in Vaudeville: "The World's Worst Juggler". --- LOL.
Alex Tansman is my great great uncle.
Thank God Conrad Hilton opened that hotel in Istanbul, I had to move there in the middle of the night a couple years ago
They introduced each other from right to left. Did they ever do that again?
I would have liked to know why some people were forced against their will to go to a public bath house.
I think they were referring to children
I can imagine a police officer delivering a vagrant to a public bath with orders to get cleaned up.
I wonder if the baths were some who were homeless or lived in rooming houses with only one bath to share.
Previous reply explained all, great number of unwashed immigrants needed sanitary assistance.
Because diseases were being spread by unbathed people 😊
Introducing the backwards????
Glad the bath attendant gave the panel so much trouble. After 5 years, the panel had gotten very good at the game and frankly was getting a bit cocky.
Dorothy Kilgallen had the funniest line
Dorothy…”I’m dead”.
Dorothy has the sharpest mind of the regular panelists or any of the non-regulars
Dorothy is sharp but not sharper than the competition. Judging from her ad libs and quips, Arlene is sharpest.
@@igkoigko9950 Arlene was rather a 'show-off' and she cheated with her askew mask in the "celebrity" bits
Dorothy was a investigative reporter for years 😊
@@Baskerville22no need to cheat, nothing to gain!😊
Conrad sounds a little like David White, just love how this was a little tougher for them.
Who is David White?
Enjoy this programme.
That First Lady was a hoot 🤣
ATTENDANT IN PUBLIC BATH
DRIVES PATROL WAGON
MAKES DAVY CROCKETT HATS
Thank you Chris for giving me this. My short term memory is shot, so I can follow the show better.
@@scottpardee6303 You are welcome.
@@ChrisHansonCanadaannoying clown. Just about sums up today's awful society.
Mr. Hilton- one of the greatest men on so many levels. CLASS. (rare today)
He was my hero in the business world!
Mr. Daly's cutting it pretty close at the end there.
I noticed that John Daly never asked the second contestant to enter and sign in.
He does at 10:43, but the audience's laughter rather overpowers his statement.
AthenaeusGreenwood For me, it's at 10:35.
He does at 10:32.
Hilton was married to Zsa Zsa Gabor, who also had an affair with his son, Nicky. Nicky was married to Liz Taylor. He died at 44 y.o. of a heart attack brought on by his alcoholism.
Very common sequence of occurrence: wife, alcoholism, death...
How on earth did Bennett figure that guy was associated with the police?!?!
Totally based on the challenger looking like he was a police officer.
As strange as that may sound, many years ago I worked in a Federal office building and for a time shared the same elevator bank as the FBI. An older, savvy co-worker pointed out that you could always tell the FBI guys in the elevator because they all wore dark suits and had well-shined black shoes. On the other hand, he continued, NYC detectives all wore tweed sports coats and brown shoes.
And Hollywood must have had that sense, too, or at least the creators of Barney Miller (Danny Arnold and Theodore J. Flicker, both of whom were born in the NYC metro area). Most of the detectives on Barney Miller fit that wardrobe profile. The major exceptions were fashion plate Det. Harris (Ron Glass) and Chano (Gregory Sierra) who dressed casually, the only one who looked ready to do undercover work.
They started to lose camera 3 at 13:43.
Halfway across the country in Chicago the same day as the Dodgers 10 run inning against the Braves (June 2), it was a sad day that would become even sadder by the end of June. And it had a connection to the Dodgers through long time Dodger broadcaster Vin Scully. The Red Sox were playing the White Sox at the original Comiskey Park that day, and first baseman Harry Agannis was batting cleanup. Based on his single and double in four trips to the plate (he was in the on deck circle when Ted Williams flied to right for the final out in the Red Sox 4-2 defeat), there was nothing to indicate in the box score that this would be his last game in the major leagues. But something had affected him physically for over two weeks and those in attendance at the game could see signs of it.
Who was Harry Agannis? Longtime residents of New England who are sports fans would probably know. Those in the Boston area and especially those from Lynn, Massachusetts, would certainly know the name even now. Nicknamed "The Golden Greek", he was considered the best all-around athlete to come out of Lynn. One of the top high school football players in the country, he was a lefthanded quarterback, plus defensive back (football players played on offense and defense in those days), punter and placekicker who led his high school to a 21-1-1 record during his junior and senior years. Because his father died two years before he would start college, he decided to stay close to home near his widowed mother instead of accepting an offer for one of the nation's college football powerhouses as 75 schools recruited him. He enrolled at Boston University and he was their starting quarterback on November 12, 1949 when the University of Maryland came into Fenway Park to face the Terriers. Maryland won 14-13 to spoil BU's unbeaten season but Agganis would go on to set a school record for touchdown passes that year. One other thing about that BU-Maryland game: it was the first game of Vin Scully's professional broadcasting career, a career that would not end until October of 2016.
After his college career was interrupted to serve his country in the Korean War, Agganis returned to BU. He played two more seasons of football and one baseball season. At the end of the football season in his senior year, on November 28, 1952, he chose to sign with the Boston Red Sox for a $50,000 bonus even though the Cleveland Indians reportedly were willing to pay double that amount. Again the desire to stay close to Mom might have played a part. But there was also the matter that the new bonus rule was going to go into effect in a few days. Any bonus over $4,000 would have required the Red Sox to keep him on their roster for two years. Instead Agganis would be able to get some seasoning in the minor leagues. As it turned out he would need only one year at Boston's top farm team in Louisville where he hit 23 home runs and drove in 108 runs.
The following spring, he had a great training camp and beat out incumbent first baseman Dick Gernert for the starting job at that position. Although he faded in the second half, he started 109 games and hit 11 homers, drove in 57 runs and batted .251, a decent season for a promising rookie with only a year of pro ball behind him.
The next year, he faced a new challenge in spring training from rookie first baseman Norm Zauchin. Zauchin won the job that spring but after his slow start in the regular season, Agganis had the starting job back. After going 5 for 10 in a doubleheader on May 15, his batting average was .307, tenth in the American League. But Agganis was performing at this level despite coughing spells and severe pain in his right side. The Red Sox team physician diagnosed pneumonia in his right lung and sent Agganis to the hospital for 10 days. When he returned to the team, he didn't get a start until June 1. On June 2, when he hit his double in the right center field alley, it looked like he would be able to get a triple. Instead he stopped at second and actually sat down on the base before getting up to continue. Still he remained in the game. And his batting average was .313 as the team caught a train for Kansas City that evening, but he had no home runs on the season. And he was still coughing and weak.
When the team trainer examined him the next morning, he was flown back to Boston immediately. A new team of 3 doctors diagnosed him with pneumonia in the left lung and phlebitis in his right leg. Agganis had noticed a lump on his leg back in April but didn't report it. Perhaps the upper body problems took precedence. The doctors’ announcement at the time was grim: that he would miss at least two months of the season, maybe the entire year. By June 16, the Red Sox moved him from the Disabled List to the Voluntarily Retired List. On June 25, Ted Williams visited him and brought him a Davy Crockett magazine. Later that day, Harry's brother noticed him coughing up blood. Two days later, doctors began sitting him up for the first time since his most recent diagnosis. As he was being lifted, he clutched at his chest and complained of pain. A blood clot from his leg broke free and reached his lung. Twenty minutes later, Harry Agannis was dead at age 26 from a pulmonary embolism.
There are many celebrities who no one says a bad word about after they die. Harry Agannis was that rare individual who no one said a bad word about during his life. In early June, the world of sports was saddened by the turn of events. On June 27, that world was numbed. But his legacy lives on. Few people who have lived such a short time with that short a career have made that big an impact. Harry Agannis was a rare golden gem who passed through this world too soon.
Who cares
@@trock6577No response required 😊
Bennett Surf's right guesses were suspiciously frequent. Especially in regards to mystery guest identities.
*Cerf*.
@@zapkvr thank you for the correction. I'm not correcting however for if I did it would be an act of cowardice on my part and make your admonishment look nonsensical, which of course it isn't.
… do you think Bennett was peeking? It’s either that or second sight. HA!
@@Jasper7182009 I don't know. I've seen things.
@@Jasper7182009Bennett a worldwide traveler, met a multitude of people! Very intelligent 😊
If Conrad Hilton were around today, as a hotel owner he could run for Potus!!!
He'd have to distance himself from Paris and her wacky antics!
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha.NO!
He's more than qualified.
Conrad passed away just two years from the birth of Paris.
That’s so cool, the hat 😂
Ah John, put on your hat.
The hat would mess up his toupee 😊
I wish when they had a contestant, that the title in front of them would show on the desk; GUEST. But, I guess it's too late to do anything about it now ?
Mentioning ENTERTAINMENT threw the panel off. A NON entertainer can stay in Hilton's Hotel. Hilton should buy a hearing aid, he can afford it. Bennett saved the day at the last minute, good for him. (I'm due for one my self.)
The theater was built above a busy noisy train station, 😊
Are you strictly interested in money? 😂 😂 😂
They should not have accepted Hilton's yes answer about being in entertainment. It was obvious the panel meant show business. Questions were wasted because of the wrong answer.
Entertainment was provided in his hotels😊
Conrad Hilton once said every man should have a woman like Zsa Zsa Gabor his wife!
What happened at 22:30? LOL
Does anyone know why Conrad Hilton was so well-known and liked by the audience? I'm aware of Elizabeth Taylor's having been his daughter-in-law for a short time? WAs he in the news a lot?
Thank you!
Conrad Hilton around this time was dating a much younger woman named Virginia Warren, who in December 1960 would become Mrs. John Daly.
John divorced his current wife and married Virginia Warren a much younger woman.😮
@@robertjean5782 the age difference between Conrad Hilton and Virginia was over 40 years; the difference between John and Virginia was 14 years.
Ooh. Bennett has been in the hair dye
So this was 8 years before Conrad Hilton would be disappointed by Don Draper's creative strategy! Haha! ;-)
Is this the only time the panel introduces one another left to right?
There is something wrong with the audio if the mystery guest can’t hear the questions.
The theater was built above a train station and very noisy😊
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I imagine that at some point someone instructed Dorothy to stop humiliating the guests with hand and muscle and label inspections??
+David Wilkenfeld No, that pretty much continued to go on until they dropped the Walk of Shame entirely.
Actually this helped the panelist get a clue of what they might do. 70 years ago majority of workers did physical work.😊
Hilton's ego crippled this segment. Lordy.
Paris' grandfather?
Great-grandfather.
Can you imagine the staff meeting after this?
20:06 Well. Not exactly. You have another 3,809 days.
Sad, but true.
The last bathhouse in Baltimore closed Dec 29, 1959
Affluence worked against them on the public bath line. Never entered their minds.
Conrad Hilton is the great-great grandfather of Paris Hilton.
Just one great.
I can't believe today the panelist are going from right to left(to my right is . . .).
Fantastic: Does the tongue taste Dorothy or does Dorothy taste the tongue?
In a Parallel Universe Paris Hilton accidentally steps into a time machine and makes her way to the show. She wanders on stage saying, "Hey Great Grand Daddy! I'm Paris!" Conrad looks on puzzled. John Daly replies, "We're going to need the Relieving Crew Schedule 2." Paris is removed from the premises and the government quickly deletes all existence of that particular episode...
They wear short ties so they don’t get strangled?
Those hats...😂
Millions of youngsters had these hats, and proud to wear them, including me,.😊
@@robertjean5782 I wasn't trying to be disrespectful. (I hope that it was not taken that way.) Those hats were before my time. (1965)
He was so Lucky. Died without not knowing about the stupidity of his grand grand daughter; Paris.
The politics question was answered wrong ... He was asked if he is NOT in politics and answered "NO" which would mean he would (have been) be in politics.
Verses the shows that are running now😅
Paris Hilton’s great grandfather
Mad Men brought me here.....
Welcome, but be careful. Sleep deprivation due to binge-watching is almost a certainty!
Mad Men is totally fictitious. Actors recite lines that are provided by writers. What’s My Line is a slice of reality, maybe frivolous reality as one of its producers Gil Fates said.