What's My Line? - Yogi Berra; Martin Gabel [panel] (Jul 2, 1961)

MYSTERY GUEST: Yogi Berra
PANEL: Dorothy Kilgallen, Martin Gabel, Suzy Parker, Bennett Cerf

[@goldengirl1168]

I am obsessed with this show. I can’t get enough of it.

[@BrookeBullmasterStewart]

Me too!

[@tammycosby4495]

I know. Me too! A lot of them were before I was born but I still love watching them.

[@Rogermarch]

Me too (from Down Under).

[@spactick]

we've noticed and it's embarrassing

[@jacquelinebell6201]

The first 10 years were before I was born. Love hearing history in the making with many contestants!

[@enriquesanchez2001]

YOGI BERRA - one of the TRUE & LASTING LEGENDS of Baseball ♥♥♥♥

[@billolsen4360]

Who can forget his sage advice, "When you come to a fork in the road, take it."?

[@georgemartin1436]

"NOBODY goes there anymore...it's TOO CROWDED!"..."The towels in the hotel were GREAT...I could barely get my suitcase closed!" Thanks Yogi!

[@Gwaithmir]

"Always go to other people's funerals; otherwise they won't go to yours." (Yogi Berra)

[@dcasper8514]

Whoa....hilarious..

[@rickdadick3220]

Gotta love him!!!

[@hyzercreek]

A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore.

[@sandy3482]

hey Yogi we're lost but were making good time. 3 months after this show Yogi would receive his 9th world series ring and one year later he would receive his 10 th , a record no one will ever even come close to breaking!

[@codyjackschwartz3044]

i hope you know what a great service it is you've provided for you to have uploaded all of these episodes on here. what you're offering is somewhat similar to a museum for me. thank you, please upload more, if you would.

[@WhatsMyLine]

There's a new show posted every day. Glad you're enjoying them.

[@beckyelliott7990]

+What's My Line? I totally agree. It's like a time capsule that brings me back to tv and naptime as a child :) Thanks!

[@clffliese26]

@@WhatsMyLine This is one of two game shows I'd love to see revived, the other being Password, both in the original format. This show was more "intellectual" than many of the game shows that are on TV, then or now.

[@jewell92]

It's like a bit of childhood, today.

[@stevefowler1787]

What a true gentleman...and a tremendous ball player...3 time MVP says it all.

[@mikejschin]

One of my favorite stories related to Yogi was told by Joe Garagiola. Joe was also a major league catcher, though a rather mediocre one. He later became an excellent broadcaster announcing baseball games. He and Yogi actually grew up across the street from each other. During one broadcast, he mentioned that Yogi's old house had a plaque on it stating that Yogi Berra grew up in that house. Joe's broadcast partner asked him if there was a plaque on his old house too. Garagiola said, yeah...it says that Yogi Berra grew up across the street from this house.

[@lorenanders702]

🤣 thanks for that.

[@donm1530]

😂😂😂

[@edwardmcmanus7496]

Yogi Berra was a great catcher for the New York Yankees, a fine gentleman, and few know he was at Omaha Beach on D-day. And he was loved by all.

[@riverview9320]

A gift to us fans of the game!

[@maryannsinisi9765]

I'm mmm?m*k

[@kenyongray2615]

Yogi Berra was one of the greatest catchers in MLB history. He was known as a great clutch hitter who had a very high baseball I.Q. He became more of a legend after he retired. It is almost safe to say that no one disliked him. If you can say that about someone, you have lived a pretty good life. Suzy Parker had outstanding features, to say the least. Thanks for the video.

[@sess122]

It ain't over 'till it's over. Just bought some postage stamps (2022) with Yogi on them...very cool. Always loved him, one of the most colorful ballplayers ever!

[@karenkranz2682]

I love this show…it’s so civilized. Sad what’s happened to us over the decades.

[@baberRuth]

Trump=civilized America

[@Menstral]

Just because the show was civilized, certainly does not imply the mass of people ever behaved this way There were many topics that interested people, and the fact that Jerry Springer exists opened the floodgates for other people to cover these topics. I saw an excellent documentary about this phenomenon. As more and more people could afford the equipment, different topics could be covered and the democratization of the equipment enabled salacious and trivial content to become prevalent. When the equipment was extraordinarily expensive, this forced a natural type of quality control.

[@henrybrowne7248]

I think I just realized why these shows are so invigorating to me. It's not just the nostalgia. People actually have to think, sometimes rather strenuously. It's exciting to hear the audience's little reactions, the tension in the air when the plot thickens, the looks on the panel's faces, the laughter when something just happens to be funny, either a crack by one of the panel or the host, or just something that just happens. . . Are any shows today like this?

[@rmelin13231]

Exactly! That is a wise comment. There is so much to these shows, and they invariably make me smile while watching. That's a good thing.

[@georgemartin1436]

@@rmelin13231 AGREED.

[@bethearly4593]

Yes. There is so much critical thinking going on: deductive/convergent reasoning, associations, careful choice of words and phrasing so as not to give the answer away. That is why the host's responses are so complicated. I have seen so many people complaining about his wordy answers but this is why. And yet the panel has no problem understanding his "double speak", the complex use of negative constructions, the vague answers. You can see how the panel is thinking about their word choices too so that they do not get a "no" answer. A "no" leaves them with no other options as well as a loss of their turn. They want a "yes" even if it is a qualified "yes" because they can continue to narrow down the topic. Dorothy is VERY good at this and behind that face l her brain is working furiously to eliminate choices and narrow it down - all based on her experiences as an investigative journalist, I am sure.

[@bluecamus5162]

It bears mentioning that at this time, most Americans had only a handful of choices on TV. There were lots of radio programs to choose from, but most TV markets had only between 3 and 6 stations to choose from, if that. Many millions of people were tuned in: does any one program today garner millions of viewers, except for football?

[@henrybrowne7248]

@Glennsten Bergkvist Berra is a beloved legend. One of my favorite sources of quotes!

[@bigoldinosaur]

Yogi Berra was smarter than the average baseball player.

[@lucindasommer720]

Smarter than the average bear-a?

[@jmccracken1963]

He certainly was. He managed a decent but not fantastic New York Yankees team to the AL championship in 1964 (they won it by only a game or two over the Chicago White Sox and the Baltimore Orioles), and he managed a similarly decent but not fantastic New York Mets team to the NL championship in 1973 (again, in a tight 5-way pennant race with no one team in the NL East really outstanding). 7-game World Series losses each time (to the St. Louis Cardinals in 1964 and to the Oakland Athletics in 1973) - but how many teams don't get to the World Series each year?

[@loissimmons6558]

Yogi: Hey Boo Boo, let's grab this pic-a-nic basket before Ranger Smith comes back! Boo Boo: I like Yogi. He's my best friend.

[@jasonsmith8300]

jmccracken1963 then he got fired after only being 1 win away from winning the world series George Steinbrenner seemed like he abused his power

[@loissimmons6558]

+Jason Smith Yes, Yogi Berra came within one win of winning the World Series (twice). Yes, Berra managed the Yankees under Steinbrenner. And yes, Steinbrenner fired managers at a rapid pace. But Berra was never fired by Steinbrenner for losing the World Series in the seventh game. In 1964 when Berra was a rookie manager, he had been a player the year before and had shown some difficulty controlling the team, in part perhaps because he was still too close to the players and he was generally an easy going guy. The issue came to a head in August when the Yankees had lost a game. On the team bus after the game, Phil Linz was playing a harmonica. Berra ordered him to stop. Linz was sitting too far away to hear him. When he asked what Berra said, Mickey Mantle and Whitey Ford told him that Berra had said to play it louder. So Linz did. Berra came back and slapped the harmonica out of his hand. The Yankees were in third place at the time and the management (General Manager Ralph Houk and owners Dan Topping and Del Webb) felt that Berra wasn't ready to manage yet and decided to fire him. And they followed through with that decision even though the harmonica incident may have helped solidify Berra's authority with the players and the rallied to win another pennant (although they wouldn't win again until 1976). At the time, Steinbrenner was in the shipbuilding business, after a failed venture as an owner of a basketball team in a rival to the NBA that folded and before his venture into Broadway shows. He didn't buy the Yankees from CBS until January 1973. 1973 was also the year that Berra would manage a team into the World Series, again coming from behind in the standings (this time all the way from 6th place). But he wasn't managing the Yankees. He was managing the Mets. The lost the 7th game of the Series to Oakland. Berra continued as Mets manager until August 1975. He returned to manage the Yankees in 1984. Steinbrenner fired him early in the 1985 season despite assurances that Berra would remain as manager for the whole season. In response, Berra would have nothing to do with the Yankees until Steinbrenner personally drove to Yogi's home in New Jersey to apologize in 1999. Steinbrenner was occasionally forced to kowtow to Baseball Commissioners or the Federal Government. Berra was one of the only people he kowtowed to who had no direct authority over him. It was Yogi's popularity with the fans and other Yankee all-time greats that forced him to eventually cave in.

[@Hank13665]

Yogi was someone whom you wished had been your uncle.

[@spy1965]

"Yep"

[@shell..47]

I was lucky enough to have met the team when they were out in SF for the series! A thrill for a 9 year old girl.

[@photo161]

He was really beloved at the time by the whole city, baseball fan or not.

[@jimf5909]

The Peace Corps began in March 1961, which would explain the novelty of the first guest.

[@jackkomisar458]

Yogi Berra: "I ain't said half the things I've said."

[@chicagozephyr2399]

FYI: Lawrence "Yogi" Berra at 19 was among many GIs landing on Normandy Beach, June 1944.

[@heartwisdomlove]

Chicago Zephyr WOW! A survivor!!!

[@macharper8214]

1961 was Yogi's last good year. In 1962 he played half the season. In 63 less than half and that was pretty much it. He was 36 years old here and about to win his 10th ring as a player and just about at the end of his career.

[@shirleyrombough8173]

What was that line? You'd better go to other people's funerals, or they won't go to yours. I just read that. Here, I think.

[@preppysocks209]

For the first time in awhile, John mentions Toots Shoor, famous NY barkeep at the time. And the right episode. It was of Toots Shoor's that Yogi said, "No one goes there any more; it's too crowded." My favorite Yogism is from the 1970s when he was managing the Mets. He was in a convertible in a parade with Mrs. Lindsay, the wife of the mayor of NYC. It was a sweltering summer day and Yogi was wearing a coat and tie. Mrs. Lindsay said to Yogi, "You're looking pretty cool today." Yogi replied, "You don't look so hot yourself."

[@666zerowolf]

Yogi was 36 in 1961...seemed uncomfortable...the one woman did not clap upon hearing of his 2000th hit....he invaded the beaches of Normany, France on D day june 6, 1944 as an 18 year old!

[@waynej2608]

Yeah, I noticed her not clapping for that either. What's her deal, I wonder. Not cool.

[@riverview9320]

The guest panelist that did not clap was smiling - prob. did not follow baseball. Man - did not realize how much Daly leans all over people - prob. why Yogi was uncomfortable...

[@dcasper8514]

Yogi was shy. He obviously felt out of his league

[@downtownbobbybrown6237]

She looks like a friggin stiff . I 'm being kind .

[@warriormanmaxx8991]

re: "uncomfortable" = Yogi being a ball player, is on a national TV show, live, not knowing what will happen next ... most WOULD be uncomfortable.

[@hcombs0104]

Yogi Berra must have been a very modest man. When John Daly mentioned his batting record, he seems almost embarrassed it was even being brought up.

[@richardpoplis6777]

Great show.... what a humble person yogi berra was.. RIP yogi

[@jvcomedy]

I think we would all agree that Yogi isn't a handsome man, but his wife that he mentions in this show was a good looking woman. She appeared with him on one of these game shows and I couldn't believe how pretty she was. He met her when she was a teenage waitress in his hometown of St. Louis. He wasn't a wealthy guy at the time so she married him for love and they were married for 65 years until her death last year. Anyway, I always thought that was interesting that Yogi Berra had a pretty wife that married him for him and not because he was Yogi Berra.

[@fleurdufleuve9089]

+Jeff Vaughn Yogi wasn't ugly or homely, he was cute, and that made him good looking.

[@jvcomedy]

+Fleur DuFleuve Yeah, didn't say he was ugly or homely....just that he wasn't handsome. Pretty much describes the majority of men. I guess that would mean average looks. He obviously had a lot of other things going for him. Like my original post said, his pretty young wife married him for who he was and not because he was Yogi Berra, because he wasn't famous at tha time. They were married 65 years which obviously says a lot for their relationship.

[@jvcomedy]

+wattever333 Haha! Good for you. He just doesn't look like he's in the same league as George Clooney and Brad Pitt to me, but I'm a guy so maybe I'm not a very good judge. ;)

[@nadiazahroon6573]

Jeff Vaughn my sister in law's husband owns a deli in New Jersey and mr. Berra was a frequent customer and people would always ask for his autograph

[@anamericanfriend2367]

Men are good looking to women in a way that is not exactly related to a man's features but more his overall presentation. His humor, confidence and smile as well as style would contributed to how good looking women might find a man.

[@sgcollins]

A ha! I was wondering if Arlene's gig in Germany was 'One Two Three' by Billy Wilder. So it is! I forgot that Arlene Francis was in that. It was one of the funniest movies I ever saw. Horst Buchholz is in it too. And James Cagney.

[@richardmackota5267]

Yogi Berra was the greatest ball player that ever lived. Simply because of the position he played (catcher) and his astounding success (10 world championships). Yes there were better athletes, but none can even come close to his success. He was one of the personalities that defined the 20th Century.

[@waynej2608]

Three time M.V.P.! Wow, impressive!

[@TheMk1960]

@@waynej2608 also most career hits in World Series play (71).

[@nicholasschroeder3678]

The smartest ball player ever. Maybe Cobb too.

[@tyronedean4173]

I can't stop watching been watching for three hours

[@clffliese26]

I'm wondering where Yogi found that voice. I was a little disappointed that there were not Yogi-isms. John's question about the catcher's position being the toughest in the game was spot on. In spite of the fact that the equipment being called "the Tools of Ignorance", the catcher has to have so much information tucked away in his mind that "Ignorant" is the one thing he CAN NOT be. He, basically, runs the team on the field.

[@neilmidkiff]

Both Bennett and John remark on the hot weather. It reached 95 degrees F. that afternoon in New York City.

[@ryanschroer]

In love with a movie star would have referred to Joe DiMaggio and Marilyn Monroe..since DiMaggio was also a famous Yankee who had retired by then.

[@Stantonv]

Suzy Parker and Yogi Berra! That's a win win.

[@yowzephyr]

+Stantonv At 21:13 Yogi gives the moderator the finger. Maybe for how much he put his hands on him. (Just kidding.)

[@Stantonv]

+yowzephyr Great catch! I didn't notice that.

[@yowzephyr]

+Stantonv Another Yogism I guess. One of those things that just comes out of him.

[@RojOdio]

Wow that Suzy Parker is a beauty.

[@Jantv81]

I recorded many of these and loved how on Sunday evenings the panel got dressed up. Classy!

[@kitcoffey7194]

They talked like royalty back then...

[@MrCaptShadow]

Suzy is gorgeous. :">

[@christophermorgan3261]

Knew her daughter Georgia de la Salle decades ago at Harvard, just as beautiful and intelligent.

[@gordonm.7387]

It's deja vu all over again!

[@waynej2608]

When asked where he wanted to be buried, Yogi replied, "Surprise me". 😄

[@vintagetvandexciting]

rest in peace yogi berra

[@WmGood]

The panel doesn't win nearly as much or at all it seems when Arlene Francis is away. Very, very sharp lady!

[@nancyayers6355]

William Good Dorothy Kilgallen was just as sharp!

[@waynej2608]

@@nancyayers6355 Yes, they both were.

[@gbrumburgh]

Bennett did quite well this night, guessing two of the guests.

[@loissimmons6558]

In 1961, the Yankees hit 240 homers which was a major league record at the time. They had three catchers on their roster: Elston Howard started 106 games, Johnny Blanchard started 42 and Yogi Berra started 15 (they had one tie that year). Howard also played a little at first base, Berra mostly played outfield and Blanchard saw some outfield action and did a lot of pinch hitting. It is the only time that a major league team had three catchers hit over 20 home runs in a season (although Berra would have been considered an outfielder during this season). Berra hit 22 while Howard and Blanchard each hit 21.

[@VictorySpeedway]

The debate goes on as to whether the '61 Yankees were a better team than the '27 Yankees. I was 8 years old, and a rabid Yankee fan in '61; followed them on TV, radio, and in the newspapers. It was an incredible season.

[@kennethwhigam2199]

After binge watching several of these episodes I can almost forget that these weren’t filmed recently.

[@jamesr1703]

Unlike Norway, Sweden and Denmark, where surnames often end in 'son', in Iceland, surnames end in 'daughter', i.e. Kristjana Magnúsdóttir, if the person is female.

[@Yowza78]

The Peace Corps guy is such a Boy Scout! I love the sense of pride in service that he brought to the show.

[@Ransomhandsome]

He spent time at Camp Lejeune. Hope he didn't drink the water.

[@accomplice55]

@@Ransomhandsome LOL!!!

[@LANCSKID]

I thought Daly as going to chew his ear off in the ‘conferences’

[@dw438]

RIP Yogi

[@guyfihi]

My friend and I are avid hikers and we often use a famous Yogi-ism when we get to a trail junction and are confused about which way to go. Yogi said, "When you get to a fork in the road, take it," --and we follow his advice as often as possible.

[@davidgarbersr.8065]

We live in a retired Mobil home park and the road is a circle. When I give directions it's a Yogism.

[@JG-op4de]

Suzy seemed entranced by the Peace Corps guest...

[@robertsvorinich890]

Love at first sight?

[@corneliahutto1816]

She ratted Bennett out ... "I'd like to introduce the last man who kissed me." Bennett was a bit flustered, so it may not have been wanted or innocent.

[@leannsherman6723]

Even the introduction to this program was clever and creative.

[@galileocan]

I think that Dorothy's hairstyle in this episode made her look older than her years

[@waynej2608]

Yogi's too. 😆

[@hcombs0104]

It really didn't work on her, it made her look more matronly than she needed to.

[@Noone58319]

Oooh. I totally disagree.

[@coreygrua3271]

A fine respite during the pandemic. Love it.

[@kascnef]

rip yogi

[@ChrisMelville]

Growing up in England, where we don’t follow American baseball - but DO get American cartoons - I was familiar with Yogi Bear many years before I ever heard of Yogi Berra. It’s highly amusing to hear that his voice is very similar to that of his cartoon counterpart 😅

[@virghammer1]

COMPLETELY different entity!

[@yowzephyr]

What a great American figure Yogi Berra was and hopefully will remain. -- First time I've ever known about Suzy Parker. Crazy beautiful. And just now I learn The Beatles wrote a song about her! It was never released, but you can hear them sing it if you type this into KZbin: The Beatles - Suzy Parker.

[@waynej2608]

'Everyone gets well done'

[@jeromemilne561]

One of the greatest games shows of all. Nothing today compares to it

[@Bigwave2003]

Miss Germany won the MIss Universe pageant in 1961, but our contestant, Kristjana Magnúsdóttir, finished in the top 15.

[@castinmeadows6956]

Yogi Berra. Pure, accidental genius. Absolutely pure. What hatched in that man's brain, and tumbled out of his mouth, was completely unstudied, free of pretense or premeditation. Diamond wisdom out of humble stones. His Berra-isms are epic! The greatest writer, intellectual, comedian, philosopher, or gifted tongue-twister could never come up with what Berra did, at any moment, on any given day. It's as if God took the day off, scoped around for some fun, gazed in Berra's direction and, with a happy grin, played fiddle-faddle with Berra's brain, and said to mankind: "Behold! I give you greatness!"

[@nickpaine]

Can't believe this is your first like. That was good.

[@rentslave]

A double play here.Rutgers(The Alma Mater of the Peace Corps contestant) was Yogi's favorite college other than Navy.Yogi was on the field for a pre-game ceremony when Navy played at Rutgers in 2005.

[@andysiegel6131]

I love how Bennett gets the mystery guest so often.

[@balconi89]

At 11:55 Bennett Cerf said "good God "as she wrote her name. got to love live tv....

[@carolechapman731]

I think he said that in reaction to her name.

[@davidsanderson5918]

James Brown must've seen it at the time and thought 'h'mmmm I LIKE that!!"

[@davidturk6301]

I rode on a commercial flight with Yogi Berra in mid 80’s. It was a somewhat empty flight and he and his wife were riding in the back (coach) of a L-1011.

[@HigherPowerWorldWide]

Yogi Berra and Johnny Bench two of the best catchers in Baseball of all time. Too bad What's My Line did not continue til the present day.

[@tammycosby4495]

Did anyone else mutter Mr Cerf say, “Good God” while Miss Iceland was writing her last name? That was one of the more difficult ones but I’m regularly impressed with Mr Daly’s ability to read some contestants’ writing.

[@lisal8984]

He practices before the show as he knows who will be on and their name

[@waldolydecker8118]

Yeah, he's not "reading" their handwriting....he has briefing sheets beforehand on all the guests - that's how he knows about the jobs of the contestants and why more than once he's told a mystery guest how he really enjoyed their latest movie only to be corrected that the movie has either yet to open or, in the case of Doris Day, the movie hadn't even started shooting yet - watching Daly adroitly tap dance out of that one was instructive.

[@LANCSKID]

Cerf goes for anything in a skirt … or without one! The old dog …

[@robertwidby2205]

Love these shows. Remember most of them from childhood in the 50s and 60s. Guess they wish they had brought in baseball players in winter instead of July.

[@Yowza78]

Why did Bennett insist on guessing so quickly??

[@edfulginiti8798]

The great Yogi!

[@pearldiver1006]

I seem to remember that Yogi won the American League Most Valuable three times while playing on teams that had players like MICKEY Mantles, Joe Di Maggio and Hank Baur plus Whitey Ford and Gil Mc Gougle. Mantle gave great credit to to Yogi for the success of the Yankees. Read Mantel's book MY FAVORITE YEAR 1956.

[@briane173]

That Miss Kristjana Magnúsdóttir from Iceland is an absolute SIREN.

[@contraryMV]

Just not the same without Arlene. She is clearly the life of the party.

[@waldolydecker8118]

You mean "Suzy Parker" didn't cut the mustard? lol

[@wyldebyll3089]

Yogi was at a game where there were streakers running by the dugout. Reporters asked him if they were men or women. He replied; "I couldn't tell, they had bags over their heads."

[@accomplice55]

LOL!!!

[@robertmelson2130]

1:45 Suzy Parker introduces Bennett as "the last man who kissed me," and Bennett seems or pretends to be embarrassed (he hides his eyes as he walks onstage, grinning). 1:57 Martin tells him, "Don't get flustered, Bennett."

[@robertsvorinich890]

Suzy handled Cerf's inappropriate behaviour as the classy lady she was.

[@timcunningham722]

@@robertsvorinich890 And I wonder if Suzy's introduction had anything to do with the fact that she did not return to WML?

[@TheConorsmithusa]

John definitely liked miss Iceland for sure !

[@LANCSKID]

On the point of snogging her at one point!

[@preppysocks209]

On the date of this show, July 2, 1961, Ernest Hemingway committed suicide. Bennett Cerf was not his publisher.

[@accomplice55]

Of course not. His work was published by Simon & Schuster (Richard Simon being Carly's dad). Max Perkins was his (and Fitzgerald's) editor.

[@MrJoeybabe25]

Micky and Roger would have made great mystery guests (together!) during that magic year of 1961

[@vtm57]

RIP Yogi.

[@timprescott4634]

If today’s players had 1/10th the humility of this titan I might still be a fan of the game.

[@enriquesanchez2001]

Michael Lanigan has been an entrepreneur and IndyCar Series team owner. He is around 93 now.

[@baberRuth]

Son of a General. Lending a few yrs to JFK's Corp. Cool

[@BeijingYank]

Yogi is the best!

[@nickmele9968]

Yogi forever

[@CarloQuinto]

Leave it to Miss Iceland to warm things up a bit.

[@loissimmons6558]

Ironically at this time of year, leaving Iceland for the U.S. would mean she would have shorter days (less daylight) than if she had stayed home.

[@waynej2608]

I know seeing her, 'warmed' me up.

[@poetcomic1]

Between Whats My Line, Following Baseball fanatically, making bad jokes, running the Famous Writers School and going around getting honorable degrees - when did Bennet Cerf find time to run Random House?

[@ronmcgill7402]

+poetcomic1 The school was a scam, he wound up in legal problems because of it.

[@ardalla535]

+Ron McGill Seems like I remember seeing an ad for the school. You would submit a sample of your writing and they would evaluate it to see if you had enough talent to meet their standards for admission. I wrote a bunch of gibberish ... when the results came back, they said I had 'potential' lol ^^

[@oswaldomilano3848]

and traveling a lot,hahahahahaha

[@jackkomisar458]

...and studying Variety and Motion Picture Daily and The Hollywood Reporter and the bulldog edition of the New York Daily News so that he could guess the identities of the mystery guests.

[@belindaalbright8798]

Always build a team you can trust and rely on in your absence. I believe Bennett had two partners involved and was not the sole owner.

[@fernandopineda1589]

I can't believe no one in the audience whistled as Miss Iceland signed on.

[@davidharris6581]

Suzy looked like she was trying to catch the squared away Marines eye.

[@olenfersoi8887]

I had to look up who gorgeous Suzy Parker, as I was not familiar with her. Turns out whe was the most famous model in the 50's & 60's, as well as an actress (famous for the "You look just like Number 12" Twilight Zone episode. Sadly, her health failed relatively early, and she died of kidney failure at age 70, having voluntarily refused further dialysis.

[@accomplice55]

And she was married to actor Bradford Dillman. They are buried together in Santa Barbara.

[@paulamiles9559]

When asked " what time is it?" Yogi said " you mean now?"

[@Yowza78]

Children in Iceland have "son" or "dottir" added to their father's first name. So she was Magnus' daughter.

[@joseph72588]

Ms. Parker is drop dead gorgeous.

[@Scorcho44]

shit, we lost another one of the greats. RIP Yogi ;_;

[@martinamorgan1119]

This are all great

[@salvatorecollura2692]

Mr Daly sat with some of the great beauties of the age, but I don't think anyone affected him like Miss Iceland! He came close to dropping journalistic neutrality and wishing her the title. He was obviously crazy about Yogi Berra too. Possibly his two favourite guests in one episode. I believe Tallulah to be among his preferred guests as well.

[@DyreStraits]

really good take

[@michaelnivens6267]

luv Yogi

[@gordonm.7387]

"If I wanted you to understand me, I'd explain myself better." - Johann Cruyff, legendary Dutch soccer player and manager

[@clffliese26]

That sounds like something Yogi would say.

[@riverview9320]

You knew when he was asked to sign in the screams from the audience would be instantaneous. That's what tipped off Bennett Cerf.

[@johnw.8323]

Yogi Berra greatest bad ball hitter in the history of baseball

[@purplemonkeydishwasher4241]

That would be Vladimir Guerrero

[@loissimmons6558]

Yogi was indeed good at hitting pitches out of the strike zone. But my vote would go to Roberto Clemente. I once saw "The Great Roberto" (as Bob Prince called him) swing at a pitch that was going toward his ear and hit it for a triple. And that was commonplace for him. In March 1957 going into Roberto's third major league season, Branch Rickey said this about Clemente (as reported in "The Sporting News": “His value is in not taking bases on balls because he can hit the bad pitches. If I tried to teach him to wait for a good pitch, I’d simply make a bad hitter out of him. The cure would be worse than the disease. He'll cure his own ailments simply by experience.”

[@dietpepsivanilla3095]

The Ape was one of the greatest. He's among the pantheon of Yankee untouchables.

[@mikemcclary3531]

I was 5 years old when this was first run. The whole family came together to watch good manners, courtesy, cultured life. GOD do I miss it!!!! Michael McClary

[@davidsanderson5918]

John Daly has the best job in the world!

[@kurtwehrmeister5684]

As I've said on other "WML" pages: Bennett Cerf was the GOAT at this game; no question.

[@accomplice55]

I question it sincerely. Ms Kilgallen was very sharp.

[@ChrisHansonCanada]

MEMBER OF U.S. PEACE CORPS SWITCHBOARD OPERATOR 1:25 The movie mentioned featuring Suzy Parker never happened. 11:56 Bennett could clearly be heard saying, "Good God!"

[@elainehamlyn5446]

Same. Love it

[@Lava1964]

Dorothy's question about whether the mystery guest plays for "a New York team" was rather silly. She should have asked if he played for the Yankees, since the Yankees were the only MLB team in New York in 1961 The Giants and Dodgers had left town after the 1957 season.

[@gojira931]

And the Mets hadn't even started yet. I guess it became habit to ask that over the first few years of the show when there were three teams and she lapsed into it.

[@rockymarino584]

Dorothy had it down to a science. She posed her questions as she did for a reason. She was an excellent and competitive player of the game and every question was by design.

[@ryanschroer]

Lava1964 There were still players around, like Willie Mays, who were playing that still played for the Giants and Dodgers. The Mets DID exist..hadn't played yet..but the franchise was around. Not out of the realm of possible that a Met exec like M. Donald Grant might appear.

[@bunpeishiratori5849]

But the player could have been from an opposing team who was in town for the weekend. Stan Musial was a guest once. Certainly it was more likely that it was a local player but the question helped narrow things down.

[@Lava1964]

Stan Musial was a WML mystery guest shortly after he had retired.

[@williamdunphy352]

Allstate plug by Hal Simms. Ralph Paul is the announcer.