Thank you for this. It always adds so much to the overall experience when a friend or relative of a guest posts here. Your mom had a most engaging smile, and she seemed a delightful person during this episode.

She really was quite charming. I find it interesting that John refers to her place as a "pecan ranch" instead of a pecan orchard.

This is a great reason to thank those who are supplying us with these reruns. Every once in a while someone sees a family member who was on rhe show decades ago.

Well said

Me too, but unfortunately today some people get all upset about a shirt a scientist wears that his colleagues gave him.

I remember them rolling the TV into the classroom and watching Glenn and the launch in elementary school. We rooted for the USA and real science then. Even the teachers and administrators.

Deep Sea exploration is far more intriguing than deep space.

It is really interesting and I can not even imagine the history you would both have to share!

What an act of humanitarianism and bravery. But that is what soldiers do: They sacrifice their own safety and well-being for the lives of their fellow humans.

An elegant, sophisticated, intelligent, beautiful, womanly, warm lady.

And as a talented actress in her own right, her appreciation is based on experience, making it even more reliable. I never had a chance to see her on stage, but from her films and her attitude here, I'm confident that she had the ability to make everyone with her on stage seem - or be - better actors. The clichés about professional jealousy and scene-stealing mainly apply to minor actors; the truly great players are generous and supportive.

Jill Gordon She probably didn't need to mention it at the end like she did.

You'd think that they would've just given her an honorary degree, but I'm sure there were reasons they did not.

@@bluecamus5162 Mills College (located in Oakland, CA since 1871) was just in the news again. They were in financial trouble and were rescued by Northeastern University (Boston, MA). It's now called Mills College at Northeastern University and serves as the West Coast campus. Mills has a good reputation and has a gorgeous and historic campus, but it's location in Oakland is not the best.

Conservative and yet so classy.

Yes. Graciousness of the past. Lovely, well spoken compliment.

I don't remember ever seeing the whole panel ( and John) so enthused before.

+Ginny Lorenz Humans in outer space seems so commonplace now, but John Glenn's first U.S. orbital flight and the Mercury program in general was a huge deal and a source of great pride for the U.S. at this time. One of my earliest memories of science was the debate as to whether humans could survive in outer space. It was a big deal when we sent up a chimp (named Ham, as I recall) and brought him back to Earth alive and well. It was also a time of great excitement. The U.S. census bureau declared in 1890 that the U.S. frontier had been closed and the last three states of the contiguous 48 states were added by 1913. Between the addition of Alaska as a state and the possibility of reaching the moon, the other planets and even beyond, suddenly the country was excited by the prospect of new lands to explore and settle. President Kennedy even used the phrase "New Frontier" in his acceptance speech during the 1960 Democratic National Convention and it became the slogan for his campaign in anticipation of a successful foray into outer space. I can remember them bringing a television set into our classroom so we could watch either the launch or the splashdown or both for many of the Project Mercury missions. John Glenn's flight was on a Tuesday (Feb. 20, 1962 - this was the first WML televised after the successful completion of the mission that same day) and my 4th grade class was probably counting down along with the first challenger of this episode, Arlene and the rest of the country. (The only mission we couldn't have watched in school was Gus Grissom's, the second and last suborbital flight. That took place in July 1961.) Speaking of countdowns, I am never forgetting the lyrics of Tom Lehrer: You too may be a big hero Once you've learned to count backwards to zero "In German, oder Englisch, I know how to count down Und I'm learning Chinese!" says Wernher von Braun kzfaq.info/get/bejne/obp7oZSSuLXdf6c.html

@@loissimmons6558 Yes, Glenn's flight was a BIG deal. I remember watching the launch in school. Nothing like today.

@@loissimmons6558 yes, pretty much as Chuck Yeager is quoted as saying in The Right Stuff -- -Glenn really didn't do anything a monkey hadn't already done before him

Not seen How to Succeed in Business?

And now, July, 2018, she's 102. God bless her!!!!! Born July 1, 1916.

@@ginnylorenz5265 - And now, July 2019, she's 103

@@manuelaffonso2191 Wonderful! Thanks. I haven't looked her up lately. Wonder if she still lives in Paris.

Olivia deHavilland was 101 on this show. Jeepers! She looked great. I think she just celebrated her 159th birthday!

104 now!

markie909 As someone pointed out in the Facebook group, Melba recorded an album in 1958 which contained her version of the WML theme song! It's on KZfaq somewhere. . .

What's My Line? I never knew that she recorded a WML theme version, and I'm so surprised that nobody here had mentioned Melba Liston specifically on this thread before! That's neat. Somebody needs to update her Wikipedia page!!

Thanks for providing the link here-- I didn't have it handy when I added that comment 6 months ago!

markie909 - Another welcome example of the diversity displayed on this program.

markie909 -Amazing. Another example of the commitment to diversity of this program. It only emphasizes my first observation about the hopefulness we all felt in that era.

I love Dr Seuss books to this day!

I wondered the same.

In many instances, they recorded several shows in one day for broadcast later, giving them weeks to run to other places.

i noticed that right away :D

The nut grower was really pretty. Funny some say (wrongly) pee-cans rather than puh-cahns (accent on the second syllable.)

@@shirleyrombough8173 The pronunciations are both correct. They are regional and in the region where pecans are grown the pee-can version is ubiquitous, even though it comes in as the second, yet acceptable choice in dictionaries. Most of the Deep South uses pee-can. Other regions don't. My father used to say, and he was a big word person on all levels, that how someone pronounces his/her name is how we should say it. So, I may not get the word out of my mouth as they do, but I will not correct a pecan grower, especially when that pronunciation is considered acceptable. We have many acceptable regional differences in language that add color to our language, which lacks the vowels of the romance languages for color.

@@philippapay4352 I guess I spoke too soon. I didn't know pee-can was acceptable so now I know. I should talk. A town near Long Beach, California, where I grew up, is called San Pedro. The natives, I included, pronounce it as San Peedro. But the correct pronunciation is San Paydro. And we are so adamant that people pronounce the word wrongly as we do. Go figure.

@@shirleyrombough8173 This includes how wrongly Los Angeles is pronounced by Americans in general. I lived in L.A. for half a decade and then San Francisco for another half decade. I used to go to one of the bars on the Queen Mary in the harbor for dinner and drinks with friends, though I lived in the Wilshire District. Then there are the weird combos of language, like Anaheim. East Coast folk say San Paydro because they know the Spanish pronunciation. So one would have to live in the area to know that the locals say San Peedro. That is true of so many regional names, words. And to close, the Golden Gate Bridge is Rust-Oleum orange #12, or was. It all adds to the regional color and enhances the patois of the locale, locals.

If you can believe the Russians which I don’t.

@@jaengen You're being silly. Americans confirmed that Gargarin went into orbit. The Russians had their own capable German rocket scientists.

And adorable!

I hardly remember his asking that.

Jeff Vaughn It's fairly incredible, isn't it? Regardless of whether the contestant had taken the time out to view the show before, you'd think that he'd be briefed about how the game worked by the staff at least! It would have taken all of 20 seconds to explain the entire game, but no, better that we viewers should have to listen to the rules yet again, after 12 years on the air. John did eventually stop doing this-- I thought it was earlier than 1962.

Yes, it's almost unbelievable. You'd think just out of curiosity the contestant would have learned something about the game, but if not, you're right, ,you'd think the show would have informed him. After all they did tell him how to sign in, where to sit, where to exit, etc.

Jeff Vaughn Let me weigh in with this. You really couldn't record the shows easily to watch later...time shifting. So if you worked odd hours and couldn't be near a television(or if he even HAD one at home), it seems plausible he wouldn't know the show. No satellite or cable reception either..if you're in the air..you could be out of luck.

Yes, I understand that, but I also added that if you knew you were going to be on a game show on national TV you'd think you'd ask somebody "what is "what's my line" and how do you play it" even if you could never watch the show. I just can't imagine somebody going on a nationally televised show and not trying to find out a little something about it before they went on. There would have to be a neighbor, a co-worker, etc. that had seen the show that he could ask about it. After all it was a very popular show. Even if they failed to ask friends, etc. about the show, you'd still think they'd ask somebody at the show once they arrived. It just makes no sense to me.

Jeff Vaughn considering they always gave the full prize regardless of how many "no" answers were given the fact a handful didnt know the "rules" is a moot point

Your teacher was making a common abbreviation of woodwind, but most sources disagree with her in the general use of the term "wind instrument". OED lists "such as a horn, trumpet, flute" in defining 'wind instrument' within the first noun listing of "wind" at sense 12a. Cecil Forsyth's 1914 Orchestration textbook groups instruments as percussion, brass, wood, and strings, later using "Brass-Wind" and "Wood-Wind" in the descriptions. American Heritage Dictionary: wind 5.a.: "The brass and woodwinds sections of a band or an orchestra." Random House Unabridged: wind instrument: "...as the trumpet, trombone, clarinet, or flute."

Neil Midkiff - Yes, I had always thought that a trombone was a wind instrument.

I'm with Lois. I always assumed a wind instrument was basically a reed instrument along with flutes and piccolos, and not brass. I stand corrected.

+Robert Melson Like the previous episode, when John refers to mushrooms as "part of the vegetable family." These people are as close to the soil as an orbiting satellite.

+Robert Melson the one reason I can think of, why John Daly so constantly holds these wrong terms is: "this are our wml special terms to describe some thing in biology". like the way they sometimes deals in service and products, there are often questions about specific expressions. But in my opinion the better way would be to use the correct terms, the audience could and would learn this terms quickly

People thought that way back then. In school we were taught everything was either a plant or animal. Bacteria, mushrooms and so on were grouped into either of those, though we now know they are neither.

To be fair I had no clue pecans were grown on trees. I think of bushes like peanuts. However, he should know that they are alive!

Still Alive at 101

104!!!

Bennett Cerf was the oldest contestant, born in 1898.

She knew! John feels he has to correct all the time.

@@jacquelinebell6201 Their definitions of "alive" and "animal" are about what I'd expect from people squarely in the liberal arts. I love then anyway.

Of course Yuri Gagarin was the first man in space, but Alan Shepard as the first American always took a back seat to John Glenn

+MerleOberon Alan Shepard was the first in space from the U.S., but John Glenn was the first in an orbital flight. Years later, Shepard was the first to play golf in space (on the moon, in fact).

Actually, "A Gift of Time" (written and directed by Garson Kanin, based on the book "Death of a Man" by Lael Tucker Wertenbaker) ran a little less than three months - only 92 performances. It opened at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre on Thursday, 22 February 1962 and closed on Saturday, 12 May 1962. Olivia de Havilland and Henry Fonda played Lael Tucker Wertenbaker and Charles Christian Wertenbaker. Other cast principals were Joseph Campanella (who was nominated for the 1962 Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play for his performance as Daniel Stein), Lucretia Gould, Leslye Hunter, John MacKay, Gary Morgan, Marian Seldes (who was also Miss de Havilland's stand-by - and who, after the death of Ruth Gordon, would marry Garson Kanin "till death do us part" (his death, in 1999)), Rufus Smith, and Guy Sorel. The play was produced by William Hammerstein, of The Shubert Organization. The sets were designed by Boris Aronson; costumes were designed by Edith Luytens Bel Geddes; lighting was designed by Jean Rosenthal; and coiffures were designed by Michel Kazan. (By the way: Later in the show's run, dancer/choreographer Jose Greco replaced one of the supporting players in the cast, as well as understudying several other parts.)

she's still alive? wow (hope she's saved)

@@kristabrewer9363 she died in 26 july 2020, at the age of 104, in Paris, France.

The scoring means nothing. All conestants still receive $50 for their appearance.

No sir

+Vahan Nisanian That far in advance? That was taking quite a chance that something wouldn't happen to someone on the program that would cause them to have to scrap it.

Maria Petrie - Really?

Wow, yeah, he really does.

What else do you put in it to get a noise? Now, it's not a "woodwind" instrument, no. But try getting a sound out of the trombone without blowing into it with your mouth or, some other part of your anatomy.

Olivia de Havilland is the sister of Joan Fontaine.

On 3/4/62, the Sunday this epoiside aired live, very few people ever heard of Quincy Jones.

Three years after your comment, America is worse. It's a shame (and crime) what is being taught to children in schools.

BULL

You're right! IT'S AN OUTRAGE! QUICK! LET'S DESTROY SOMETHING! .....not.

Calm your skin down.

Those cards were just a prop to make it feel like a game show, rather than just a parlor game. If they irritate a person, that person is always welcome to shimmy on over and spend an hour being face-blasted with MONEY MONEY MONEY prizes and loud, shrill, annoying music, graphics and contestants on the Price is Right.

FUN was the goal of the show, not flipping cards.