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00:00My name is Art Linkletter. How could I have a secret?
00:06I've Got a Secret brought to you tonight by Bristol Myers, makers of Bufferin.
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00:15Bristol Myers brings you America's number one panel show, I've Got a Secret, starring Gary Moore.
00:32Hi, and welcome to Whatever This Is.
00:35I will not waste time because, well, first let's meet our panel, and I'll tell you why I'm not going
00:40to waste time.
00:41Our Bill Cullen is here, our Betsy Palmer is here, our Henry Morgan is here, and our Bess Meyerson is
00:50here.
00:56I can only hope that the panel is eager to play the game tonight, because I can hardly wait for
01:04our first contestant.
01:05Will our first contestant come in, please?
01:23Now, how's that for our first contestant?
01:27Each of these lovely people naturally has a name and a hometown, so we'll ask them to identify themselves.
01:33We'll start in a large circle, starting with you, please.
01:36Artis Matthews from Rochester, New York.
01:39From Rochester.
01:40Grace Tilton, Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
01:42Alabama.
01:43Lynn Williams, Jamaica, British Miss Binders.
01:45From Jamaica.
01:46Uh-huh.
01:47Nellie Artsman is from the name of Holland.
01:49And she's from Holland.
01:50And?
01:51Carol Winters from Sherriland, Illinois.
01:53Illinois.
01:54Yes.
01:54Carolyn Pace from Dallas, Texas.
01:57Texas.
01:57Head on to Hill, New York City.
01:58Mr. Underhill, don't be so eager.
02:00You skipped one of the best things on the show.
02:02Let's go back.
02:04Yes, what's your name, please?
02:05Linda Hughes, Mount Holly, New Jersey.
02:07New Jersey.
02:07Now, sir.
02:08Head on to Hill, New York City.
02:09All righty.
02:10Yes.
02:10Elaine G. in Grand Bay, Boston, Massachusetts.
02:13Boston.
02:14The EPS case, Manila, Philippine Island.
02:16Philippines.
02:17Nikki Niles, Newport Beach, California.
02:19California.
02:19Joyce Smith, Washington, D.C.
02:22And the young lady to my left?
02:24Kaylee, England.
02:25From England.
02:27Now, you will admit that this is a group gathered from far and near.
02:31And yet they share an identical secret.
02:33So, ladies and gentlemen, if you will all whisper this secret to me, we'd like to show it to folks
02:38at home.
02:39Here we go.
02:47Now, now, now, panel, a clue to these people's secret concerns something they do, and we'll start the questioning, I
02:57think, with Henry tonight, please.
02:59Go ahead.
03:00I think he's got it.
03:01I think he's got it.
03:02You're all...
03:02You think he's got it?
03:03I think he has.
03:03Wait a minute.
03:05Wait a minute.
03:06These are terrible people I have to work with.
03:08I said to Bill as a joke that they're all stewardesses except Underhill.
03:15Airline stewardesses.
03:16Is that a question?
03:18No, that's what I said to Bill.
03:19Now.
03:20Yeah.
03:21All right.
03:22Well, is it any way close or related?
03:25Because they couldn't come from that many different places and not be in transportation of some kind.
03:30The answer is, are all of you as a group, are you all involved in transportation of any kind?
03:35No.
03:35No.
03:37The other reason I...
03:39I'll just back and fill it for a second.
03:41And, you know, you don't get many good-looking girls in a group who are in...
03:49Or even not in a group.
03:52Are you related...
03:54Is the thing that you do in common related in any way to the UN?
03:59No.
03:59No?
04:00All right.
04:01We have $20 down, $60 to go.
04:03Bess Meyerson, please.
04:04You're so international, Henry.
04:06I'm so stupid.
04:10Kay Lee, may I ask Kay Lee, this has something to do with your work, perhaps?
04:15No.
04:16No?
04:16Not with the work you do, like you're all the best secretaries of the year?
04:19No.
04:19Oh, no?
04:21Is it some kind of contest that you were in?
04:25No.
04:25No.
04:26You mean Gary just went all over the country and picked you up all over the place?
04:30I have friends everywhere.
04:32Is it any kind of...
04:33Well, it couldn't be a beauty contest.
04:34Mr. Underhill, you didn't win a beauty contest, did you?
04:39No.
04:40$40 down, $40 to go.
04:41We go to Bill Collins.
04:43Is this...
04:44I guess I lost track, Gary.
04:45Is this something they are...
04:47They all have in common?
04:48Something they all do.
04:49And it is identical.
04:51All do.
04:51In each case.
04:54Is it in show business?
04:56No.
04:58Would it help me to know what industry it's in?
05:00Is it in an industry?
05:01Is it a job?
05:02A work?
05:03No.
05:04Do you do this as a hobby?
05:06No.
05:08I mean, you just happen to do the thing that you all do, and the man...
05:13Each of them...
05:14Each of them arrived at this situation completely on his or her own.
05:19How did the man get in there?
05:22Just lucky, I guess.
05:25She travels in great company.
05:26That's all I have to say.
05:29$60 down, $20 to go.
05:31Betsy Palmer.
05:32Is there an object involved in what you do, all of you?
05:36Yes.
05:36In the large sense, there is a tangible object involved.
05:40In the large sense.
05:42Is it large?
05:44Yes.
05:46Is it alive?
05:49No.
05:49No.
05:50Does it have anything to do with music?
05:54No.
05:56Sports?
05:56All right, sports.
05:58No.
05:58You see, I don't mind when people give me hints.
06:00Try chemistry.
06:02All right, chemistry.
06:05You didn't think of witchcraft.
06:07Try witchcraft.
06:08Witchcraft.
06:09No.
06:11Panel, the secret is, that is the secret that these 12 girls and one gentleman share,
06:16is that they all live in the same building.
06:19And what makes this unusual is it is the YWCA.
06:31It's the West Side YWCA right here in New York, which is occupied by approximately 350 girls
06:38and Mr. Underhill.
06:41Now, naturally, there's a logical explanation for this, which is that he is the building
06:45manager.
06:46And as far as we can determine, he is the only man in the country who actually lives
06:50in a YWCA.
06:52And he tells me that he has no problems whatsoever.
06:55He lives there with his wife, by the way.
06:59And he has no problems except every now and then a new girl, seeing him walking the corridors
07:04will immediately call the desk and report a prowler.
07:08Yes, Henry.
07:09Now, this isn't meant to be clever or, you know, anything.
07:13Now, these girls are, without exception, quite attractive.
07:16Did you pick them that way?
07:18Or is this one of the great Ys of the universe, or what?
07:23Uh, I have to ask our producer, Chester, because I didn't pick them.
07:26I wish I could take credit.
07:27Chester, what happened?
07:28Open your mouth loud and clear.
07:29The Y sent them?
07:31Yes.
07:31You contacted the YWCA when you learned that Mr. Underhill lived there, and then these are
07:37the young ladies picked by the Y to be sent around, right?
07:40Sure.
07:40All right.
07:41Lovely.
07:41Huh?
07:42Aren't they lovely?
07:42They're lovely.
07:42Mr. Underhill, yeah, Mr. Underhill is no slouch, Chester.
07:47He's all right.
07:48Oh, no, I think he has a sort of dainty charm.
07:51I do, too.
07:52Certainly.
07:52Sure.
07:53Do they call him Daddy?
07:54Pardon?
07:54Do they call him Daddy?
07:55Not yet.
07:56He's a father.
07:59Well, thank you, ladies.
08:01Thank you, Mr. Underhill.
08:02Your Bristol Myers gift package and the money you have won will be waiting for you offstage
08:06and rots or rots or rots, Mr. Underhill.
08:21What a nice spot he's got.
08:26Now we proceed to our next contestant.
08:29Will you come in, please, sir?
08:38Now, as per custom, will you tell, please, our panel what it is that, uh, what your name
08:42is and where you're from?
08:43My name's Courtney Metzger.
08:45I'm from Springfield, Ohio.
08:46This is Mr. Metzger, and he is from Springfield, Ohio.
08:50Now, sir, if you whisper to me at once, we'll flash it on the screen what you do.
09:04Well, the clue to Mr. Metzger's secret is concerned something that happened to him.
09:10And I think, uh, Bess, we'll start with you this time, dear.
09:13The thing that happened to you, Mr. Metzger, in Ohio?
09:16Did it happen in Ohio?
09:18Yes, ma'am.
09:18Mm-hmm.
09:19Uh, recently?
09:20Mm-hmm.
09:21Within the last couple of weeks?
09:22Within the last, uh, couple of weeks, yes.
09:24All right.
09:25Was it a physical thing that happened to you?
09:28Yes.
09:28You didn't have the mumps, measles, and chicken pox all the time.
09:31Not all the time.
09:33This thing that, uh, was there any...
09:34What?
09:35Sorry, Bess, $20 down, $60 to go, and so we go to Bill Keller.
09:39Mr. Metzger, when this thing happened to you, did it, uh, did the event appear in the papers?
09:43Did it appear in the papers?
09:45Yes.
09:45Uh-huh.
09:46Uh, nationally?
09:47I mean, might we have read about it here in New York?
09:49Yes, I think so.
09:51Did it make magazines?
09:53Yes, sir.
09:54Oh, for heaven's sake.
09:55And I've gotten that far.
09:56I don't know what it was.
09:57What?
09:58$40 gone, $40 to go, and Betsy Palmer, please.
10:01Oh, dear.
10:02Did you have something to do with...
10:04Was it scientific?
10:05Yes.
10:06What happened to you?
10:07Did it have to do with, um, the air or water?
10:11Uh, which of those questions would you like to ask?
10:14Both.
10:15Uh, did it have to do with air?
10:18Yes.
10:19Aeroplanes.
10:22Astronauts.
10:23Astronauts.
10:24Astronauts?
10:24Are you an astronaut?
10:25We would have to say there's a definite connection with astronauts, wouldn't we?
10:27Are you an astronaut?
10:28Now, Bill Cullen knows you, but Bill, remember your turn is fast.
10:31I know.
10:31I couldn't have done it.
10:32That's all I know.
10:33Are you the first man to have gone in the whole thing that an astronaut is going to experience
10:37when he goes through space?
10:39Well, I don't know.
10:41She has said again.
10:43Well, I'd like her to, but it's only a half-hour program.
10:46$60.20 to go, and you go to Henry Morgan, please.
10:49Well, with, uh, strangely enough, Betsy's help did, uh...
10:57What can I say wrong when you know that I love you?
11:01The...
11:01Of course.
11:03Uh, the moment you're single, call.
11:08What kind of program is this?
11:09Don't hold your breath waiting.
11:10Were you, Mr. Metzger, the man who lived for, uh, four days?
11:16Where am I?
11:17Longer.
11:18Or longer, yeah.
11:19Well, this is the man you're talking about.
11:21Inside a...
11:21Seven days and seven nights inside the capsule, yeah.
11:31Mr. Metzger is a civilian engineer with Aerospace Medical Laboratory
11:36at the Wright Air Development Division at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio.
11:42And his secret is that he was sealed in this capsule seven days and seven nights.
11:46This experiment was conducted by the Air Force,
11:49and since Mr. Metzger was the project officer,
11:52he volunteered as the test subject.
11:55What was the purpose of the experiment, for those who don't know?
11:58Well, Gary, it was to test an integrated, uh, space system
12:02where we could put a man into this capsule,
12:04and we tested the equipment
12:05and put him in outer space, or orbital space.
12:09So it was a question of a survival test for the man, really.
12:11Right.
12:12More or less.
12:13Uh, it was also a pretty good test of his endurance.
12:15I'd like to show the audience how much space he had to live in for seven days.
12:19Now, the actual capsule was housed in a rocket nose cone,
12:23which obviously is a little unwieldy for us to bring to New York.
12:26However, we do have a replica backstage.
12:29So if you'll join me, center, sir.
12:31Here we go.
12:34Now, this in size is an exact representation of a nose cone.
12:38Right.
12:38Is that right?
12:39Right.
12:39The capsule in which you live is inside of this.
12:43This represents the mirror through which...
12:45I mean, the window through which you could look out.
12:47Look outside.
12:48All right, fellas.
12:49Without any further follow the roll or count-offs or anything,
12:52let's, uh, take it right up and see this space, shall we?
12:56Let's, uh...
12:56What, you want to count down?
12:5810, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1.
13:02Fire!
13:03There you go.
13:04Oh, how skinny.
13:06Now, look at that.
13:07Will you assume the position?
13:09Seven days and seven nights.
13:15Now, painted on the walls here are what appear with, are representations of various cabinets
13:21of one side, a sort or another, which contained equipment.
13:24Would you explain it to us, sir?
13:26Sure, Gary.
13:27Uh, on this one side over here, uh, we have a refrigerator and above it, a stove or an oven
13:34which we cooked our food, which was, uh, kept in the tubes of this nature.
13:38We ate all our food out of the tubes.
13:40It was strained food, and to, uh, get it out of the tubes, you just, uh, just, uh, just
13:44like toothpaste or shaving cream.
13:46In the far other compartments, uh, where we obtained our oxygen was the K-O-2, super-litoxium
13:52oxide, a chemical oxygen, uh, which absorbs the CO-2, gives off oxygen, also absorbs moisture
13:59and any odor that gets in the, uh, capsule.
14:01And by the way, this is a way of allowing the, uh, the carbon dioxide which he breathes
14:06out after having breathed in oxygen to be regenerated into oxygen.
14:10So, in effect, he is breathing his own revitalized breath.
14:14It's not the scientific way of saying it, but that's the idea.
14:17Then, um, I just go, the, uh, as I say, these tubes are stored in the refrigerator, they've
14:25taken out of the refrigerator, and then they're placed in the oven where the food is heated
14:29up.
14:30We had, uh, approximately seven different items, say, uh, meat and two or three vegetables,
14:34and some solid, some solid food like bread, and you, in an orbital condition, you have
14:40a weightless condition, and you'd have to take these, we had seven of these instruments here,
14:46as such.
14:46And we'd take these out of the oven, put it in a little booty, and put it, uh, in the
14:52clamped position to hold it from floating out into space.
14:55This unit was attached to the wall?
14:57Attached to the wall.
14:58Then we could, uh, eat out of it.
14:59This was, take it out.
15:00Everything was eaten out of tubes through the whole seven days.
15:03Did you lose weight, Mr. Metzger?
15:04I lost four pounds.
15:06Four pounds only?
15:07Four pounds.
15:07What did you do for exercise?
15:09Well, um, you already had this, just a rubber piece of tubing, we used this for, I use this
15:13some for exercise, such as this.
15:15Rubber tube, just to stretch and flex your muscles with.
15:18Uh, not much room in here, and we didn't want to raise the temperature too much, we didn't
15:21do too much.
15:22Mr. Metzger, I don't want to get soupy about this whole thing, but I think that all of us
15:26in this country, uh, are indebted to you, along with, of course, all the other scientists
15:31who are working on this project, for being willing to undergo this on our behalf.
15:36Mr. Metzger.
15:40I've died.
15:41Ready, set, go.
15:42Games online now.
15:47Now, it's time for us to greet a guy for whom I have great affection and respect.
15:51Not only a fine performer, but author of the best-selling book, the new best-seller, called
15:56The Secret World of Kids, and subtitled, I love this, How to Enjoy Your Children in
16:01Spite of Them.
16:03Here is Art Linkletter.
16:15First thing I want to talk about is your statement at the top of the show when you
16:18said, I am Art Linkletter and I have no secrets.
16:22Well, to begin with, you can't have a secret anymore.
16:24I've got grandchildren running around the place and children and, uh, the reporters.
16:28You can't have any secrets in this business.
16:30That's very true.
16:30So, I've run out of secrets for the panel, but I have an idea how we might test them.
16:36How's that?
16:37Well, I've watched this show.
16:38You know, it's one of my favorite shows.
16:39Thank you, sir.
16:40At this hour on this network.
16:41And, this panel is very close.
16:44They're good friends.
16:45You see a lot of each other here on the show.
16:47And I just wonder how well they know each other.
16:49Well, how do you propose to find out how well they know each other?
16:52Well, now, friends, did you hear Henry tell Betsy he loved her a few moments ago?
16:56Yeah.
16:56Mm-hmm.
16:57I wonder, for instance, if he would recognize Betsy Palmer in a group of other girls.
17:02Well, I'm sure he would.
17:03He'd have a little trouble.
17:05Well, I want to see how well they each might recognize each other under different...
17:10Well, let's start with Henry.
17:12All right.
17:12What do we do?
17:12You take Betsy Palmer backstage.
17:15There's some other girls back there.
17:16All right.
17:17And I'll handle Henry.
17:18All right.
17:18I'll hear Henry.
17:19Betsy?
17:20Backstage with Henry.
17:21Henry, you go with Henry.
17:22Henry, you go with Henry.
17:23Now, this is going to be very easy, Henry, because you know Betsy well.
17:27I've met her, yes.
17:31There is a sneaky answer.
17:32You've actually been to parties with her and her husband?
17:35Yes.
17:35Uh-huh.
17:35Ever danced with her?
17:37No.
17:38Well, if you did dance with her, and then you danced with several other girls...
17:41But I don't dance.
17:43But if you did dance, and you are an eater, and you did dance with her, you know...
17:47No, I don't understand.
17:47No, I don't want to get into a big, difficult thing, but I don't dance.
17:49I drink.
17:52Tonight, Henry Morgan, we are interested in introducing you to a new hobby called dancing without drinking.
18:00I've just lost interest in me, sir.
18:01Back?
18:04Art, I'm not kidding.
18:05I don't know if you recognize you don't even need to dance.
18:08I'll show you what we're going to do.
18:10Okay.
18:10If you just put your arms around her in a position of dancing...
18:13Well, what leads you to believe that if I put my arms around Betsy, I'd recognize her?
18:17Do you think you would?
18:19Well, I've never done it.
18:20Well, why not try it?
18:22I'm delighted, but I don't...
18:25I wouldn't know her from anybody else if I...
18:28I know, but I'm not going to...
18:31I'm trying to put it over his mouth.
18:39Now, assume the posture here of a dancing instructor, and here is your first young lady.
18:44Would you put your arms around her?
18:47And...
18:50Down here, please.
18:51Now, a little music just to get the feel of it, maestro.
18:59That's enough.
19:00Henry, you're right.
19:01You don't dance.
19:02Now, we've got another girl.
19:05Gary, this is the next girl.
19:07You'll put your arms around her.
19:10Oops.
19:11Oops.
19:12There it is.
19:16That's not the way you dance.
19:19Ready?
19:19Music, please.
19:20You dance your way.
19:21I'll dance my way.
19:35That looks like a lead-in to a Geritol commercial.
19:40You mean me.
19:41You're right.
19:42There you are.
19:43Here's your final girl.
19:44There are all these other people here.
19:48Music, please.
19:49This girl's jiggling.
19:57All right, that's enough.
19:58Now.
19:59It's enough for you, man.
20:02Arthur Murray has just shot himself in a distant corner of Manhattan.
20:05Well, that's good news.
20:06Which...
20:08Of the first, second, and third girl, Henry, which one is Betsy Palmer?
20:14Now, you want what I really think?
20:16Yes, yes.
20:16I don't think any of them was.
20:18How could he be so smart?
20:20Look.
20:23Oh, three of them are.
20:24There is Betsy.
20:25In number three position.
20:29Amazing, isn't it?
20:30Well, as you think you know her from sitting next to her, you didn't even know her when you
20:34had your arms around her.
20:35But, Art, I explained to you I never have had my arms around her.
20:38How am I going to...
20:39Feel.
20:40Feel now.
20:41Please.
20:42Oh, Betsy.
20:45Oh, now, Henry.
20:48Thank you, girls.
20:49Run backstage with Gary.
20:53Beth, would you come up here, please?
20:55I've noticed, Beth Meyerson, that all through the shows, whenever something exciting happens,
21:00you get excited and you grab Henry by the arm like this.
21:03Do I really?
21:04Yes, it happens almost every week.
21:06I don't know.
21:06So, if anybody should be an expert on his arm, it should be you.
21:11Are you ready backstage, Gary?
21:14Not quite ready.
21:15Does he have to wear a blindfold on?
21:17You know, you don't need a blindfold for this.
21:19Open the curtain.
21:24Now, Beth, one of these mighty arms belongs to Henry Morgan.
21:31Give it a feel.
21:32Both arms.
21:32What?
21:34Look at that hairy monster arm.
21:36Let me see.
21:38Let me see.
21:39Down here.
21:42No.
21:43And the third arm.
21:50Beth, which one?
21:51First, second, or third?
21:52Is Henry Morgan's mighty spaghetti muscle?
21:55First.
21:56The first arm.
21:57Retract arms, men.
21:59Put your arms up.
22:00Don't mix places, man.
22:01Now, move the...
22:03Oh, it is a...
22:03Oh, there he is, Henry.
22:06The man in the middle.
22:09Now, Beth, you go backstage.
22:12Henry, come on back and join the group.
22:15Atlas.
22:15Bill, stand up.
22:16Yes, sir.
22:17Now, Bill, I know you well enough and for long enough.
22:20How many years?
22:2015, 10, 12, 14 years?
22:22I remember what you did to me last time you were on here.
22:24And I know that you are a very discerning man.
22:26In all the times that you have been here,
22:28certainly at one time or another,
22:29you have looked at Bess Meyerson's beautiful legs
22:32in order to see if her seams were straight for the show.
22:35That's Bill.
22:36I'm a leg man, yeah.
22:37You're a leg man.
22:38Oh, that's good.
22:40Because right now we're going to find out
22:41whether or not you would recognize her beautiful limbs
22:44if you saw at least a part of them.
22:46Oh, I...
22:47Are we ready backstage?
22:48Yeah!
22:48Open the curtain, Gary.
22:50And, uh, there.
22:53I'd recognize Henry's legs if I could.
22:56Three sets of legs.
22:57Which one belongs?
22:59You know, this is very funny.
23:00Two of them are terribly familiar.
23:04That one over there and the third one.
23:08You mean not a pair, but two legs?
23:10Two legs, yeah.
23:10One that one girl has
23:11and the other girl has one, it looks right.
23:13Now, I know, I can tell you right now
23:15which one's best.
23:17Yes, in the middle.
23:18In the middle.
23:18Yes, that is definitely...
23:19Raise the curtain and we'll see.
23:22You are right.
23:23Oh, no!
23:26You're going white.
23:27Yes.
23:28How do you do it?
23:29I do.
23:31That's his wife, Bill.
23:32Backstage.
23:33Yeah, that's his wife.
23:34Betsy?
23:38Now, you've sat next to Bill Cullen
23:40on this panel for how long?
23:42Oh, almost two years now.
23:44All right.
23:44Every time you turn to him,
23:45you'll look him right in the face.
23:46Right.
23:46You certainly should recognize his face
23:48of all things, shouldn't you?
23:50Well, I would think so.
23:51It's a face you can hardly forget.
23:53That's right.
23:53All right.
23:54Now, we're going to put this
23:56little blindfold on you.
23:58They snap off on me usually.
24:00Uh-huh.
24:00And we're going to ask you
24:02to recognize Bill by face.
24:05By feeling me.
24:05By seal.
24:06Will you open the curtain, please?
24:08And, uh, Betsy,
24:09you and I will go right back here.
24:11And we have three...
24:13Whoop!
24:14We have three men,
24:15and we're going to ask you
24:16to feel each one of their faces
24:18and tell us who is Bill.
24:22Oh, it's so little.
24:23It can't be Bill.
24:24Are they sitting down?
24:26They're sitting down.
24:28It's so little.
24:29He has a little head like a cassava.
24:31Now, this one.
24:32That's number one.
24:32Here's number two.
24:35Now, wait a minute.
24:36And I have to feel the teeth
24:37because it's Bill's teeth.
24:39It's mild.
24:40No?
24:41That's number two.
24:42It's mild, too.
24:42If you or a loved one
24:43suffer from limited...
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25:01Which one, Betsy,
25:02is Bill Cullen?
25:03One.
25:04Take off the blindfold.
25:05You're right.
25:06I don't know.
25:07By the way.
25:08Gary!
25:10Gary!
25:12Gary!
25:16Gary!
25:17Gary!
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