What's My Line? - Carl Sandburg; Milton Berle; Nick Adams [panel] (Sep 11, 1960)

[@rogerrobin2774]

Carl Sandburg: one of only a select few mystery guests for whom all of the panel, including the ladies, stood. A most well deserved honor.

[@MckIdyll]

Carl Sandberg and Robert Frost were both ALIVE at that time.

[@peternagy-im4be]

Just about. ​@@MckIdyll

[@virginiahanna869]

Seeing Carl Sandburg was a real joy! I've never seen him in anything but still photos.

[@slaytonp]

Not much difference, is there?

[@thomasnorton5086]

I was very impressed with Carl Sanburg. Very fortunate to be around to hear his poetry back in 1960.

[@JLionelWaller]

You notice that his prediction about the election came true?? Brilliant man!

[@chuckendweiss4849]

It is wonderful to see manners and respect shown to Mr Sandburg .

[@rickmontgomery3037]

Definitely agree! This may be the only time so far where I've seen the women on the panel stand when meeting the mystery guest...

[@DaCoach68]

I'm old. I remember in 4th grade back around 1958, we had a class in courtesy. Among the lessons, how to introduce people. It is correct always for the men to stand and extend their hand. The ladies remain seated. A man does not extend his hand to a lady unless she first extends her hand. When a person of significant age or stature is being introduced, the ladies should stand to show respect. I love watching the attitudes and mores demonstrated here! They're almost always totally correct. It's refreshing, but you have to remember some of the GENDER attitudes are embarrassingly 1950s. But it is what it is, and we're here now.😊

[@xxcharmed1xx]

I love this episode so much. I have never smiled so big. Milton was so damn brilliaintly funny.

[@Dolphin-cb9sq]

I enjoy watching John Daly's warmhearted response & reactions. Wonderful to see Carl Sandberg.

[@gastropod557]

Mr. Daly was the consummate host...always warm, gracious, and thoughtful. Compared to today...oh, what a difference in 60 years.

[@bluecamus5162]

No matter how great the guest, JCD never appears overawed and is always calm and in control of every situation. He served as a frontline journalist himself and is never rattled. Really a remarkable man in his own right.

[@shirleyrombough8173]

Imagine having a famous poet as the mystery guest and having the audience appreciate him. Ah for the days gone by.

[@slaytonp]

Yet no one on the panel identifies him as a poet specifically, or even mentions his poetry.

[@donnawoodford6641]

What a delightful change from actor, movie star, or singer.

[@p.o694]

he was more well known as lincolns biographer but his poetry was appreciated

[@nancypine9952]

The movie Milton Berle was in ("Let's Make Love") had a cast that included Yves Montand (the great French actor), Marilyn Monroe, Tony Randall, Frankie Vaughan, Bing Crosby, Gene Kelly, Milton Berle and Joe Besser, and the New York Times decided that Milton Berle stole the show. That's a tremendous compliment.

[@shirleyrombough8173]

What a cast. I'd love to see that movie.

[@jmason2838]

Berle was also in 'Its A Mad , Mad , Mad , Mad World' .. Perhaps the greatest Ensemble Cast of Legendary Comedians and actors ever assembled for one film🤩😍🤩 that became a Comedy Masterpiece .. Berle was terrific in this film ( good in the MM film too.. trivia : MM and Berle had a 'fling' w/ each other ..😌🧐🙄 ), as were all the rest of the actors in this classic laugh riot of a film..😄😅😂🤣🤣🤣🏆 all here is just my humble opinion.. One of my favorites. ..😄❤️

[@waldolydecker8118]

Expected you to say the New York Times decided that Milton Berle stole the 'script.'

[@algoritmosalfredohipicasig7116]

A few years hence, my teacher invited Mr. Sandburg to our class, alas I was much too young to appreciate him.

[@kimfuhrmann7700]

Nick Adams is also the name of a character in several of Hemingway's short stories, so maybe that explains why Hemingway was his favorite author.

[@GenerationX1967]

His birth name was also Nick Adamshock..

[@jmason2838]

Murdered.😭😔..❤️🤠🌟🏞️🌄🌹🌾🌻🌼🏆🙏🕯️🌹🌹💐🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹💐😔😭😒😪 ,✝️☯️🛐🔎📖🔍...🔮⚖️

[@jubalcalif9100]

@@jmason2838 Ernest Hemingway was murdered ? I have always read he committed suicide by shooting himself in the head with one of his shotguns.

[@accomplice55]

@@jubalcalif9100 We're talking about Nick Adams.

[@olenfersoi8887]

Among my earliest clear memories was watching Carl Sandburg at JFK''s inauguration. It was planned that he would read one of his poems but it was a windy day...so windy that his papers were blowing around so much that they were nearly blown from his hands and he couldn't read from them. Luckily, he was able to recite the poem from memory. I did not realize, at the time, the towering reputation he has as a poet.

[@rivaridge7211]

My I politely point out that while your memory of events is mostly correct, it was the great Robert Frost, and not Carl Sandburg, who famously recited one of his poems ("The Gift Outright") at John F. Kennedy's inauguration? This, of course, takes nothing away from Mr. Sandburg who was his own shining star. Mr. Frost was 86 years old in January 1961, and had planned to read a new poem he wrote for the occasion ("Dedication") but the bright sun and breeze (against the surrounding snow) made it impossible for him to get past the first few lines. He made light of the situation and read "The Gift Outright" from memory.

[@MckIdyll]

Your memories are every bit as accurate as mine are. The JFK inaugural poet was Robert Frost.

[@erichanson426]

I glad they spent time talking with Milton Berle afterwards. He was funny 😆

[@kennithumperovitch1312]

Carl Sandberg my hero he is the greatest poet of all time! Love his style of worday...

[@jubalcalif9100]

He was no Percy Dovetonsils, but Mr Sandbert was indeed one gifted poet.

[@mistergrandpasbakery9941]

I'll soon be 55 and this is the first time I've seen Carl Sandburg smile.

[@loissimmons6558]

Quite interesting that the non-celebrity guest this evening was named Donna. While this show was occurring, Hurricane Donna was roaring up the east coast. I remember it vividly because I was in 3rd grade at the time. The following day, Hurricane Donna hit NYC and Long Island. We went to school that morning, but they sent us home in the middle of the day. The sun was still out when we walked home one long block plus part of another to get home. The storm hit later that day and it was the first hurricane I remember. I was alive in 1954 (going on two years old) when NYC was hit by a pair of major hurricanes: Carol in late August and Hazel in mid October. I was too young to remember either of them, but the story of how Hazel blew the skylight off the roof of our house was a family story for decades.

[@VickyRBenson]

Thanks for the interest you add to the comments of many of these videos. The personal story this time added a special touch.

[@BillyAlabama]

Carl Sandburg….a legend!

[@shirleyrombough8173]

Dang - They all seemed to have so much fun, especially John on this episode.

[@annakaminski4406]

What a fantastic show!

[@AnnMartin309]

Mr Sandburg was born in the town in which I live, Galesburg, Illinois . We have a Jr. College, a statue with a goat and numerous other things named after him!

[@kevinjohnson4599]

Thank You so very much once again for posting another great episode of What's My Line in Black & White with Carl Sandburg & Milton Berle as the mystery guests. I LOVE IT.

[@brianobrien7983]

He was 82 at this time. He died in 1967 at the age of 89.

[@jubalcalif9100]

Really ? Milton Berle looked VERY good in this episode for an 82 year old man !

[@tigergreg8]

Imagine being able to tell people you just sat on the same seat as Carl Sandburg just seconds as he left.

[@peterwinkler3570]

"It's the dentist you saw at Maxim's in Paris." Arguably the funniest WML line ever!

[@loissimmons6558]

At 11:24, Dorothy Kilgallen begins a long drawn out combination of a question and verbal joust with John Daly that includes Dorothy making sure that John does NOT take her _breadth_ away!

[@loissimmons6558]

@Aritosthenes That reminds me of a Steven Wright joke: A lot of people are afraid of heights. Not me, I'm afraid of widths.

[@jadeshannon5583]

I find Milton Berle very amusing and Arlene is very clever.

[@ChrisHansonCanada]

CARL SANDBURG (American poet, biographer, journalist). 8:45 His prediction was correct! BABYSITTER FOR CHIMPANZEE (CHILDREN'S ZOO)

[@HardRockMaster7577]

It wasn't until this show with Berle that I realized how he was the Master and Jerry Lewis the student of that kind of comedy. Jerry's very good, but Berle is the Master. Now I know.

[@shirleyrombough8173]

Hard Rock Master - I just love Milton Berle. He was quick and witty but also kind hearted.

[@preppysocks209]

@@shirleyrombough8173 It has been reported that of all entertainers, Berle made the most appearances at charity benefits and rarely did he promote that he did this.

[@shirleyrombough8173]

@@preppysocks209 I really am not surprised. I surmised that he had that characteristic even though it was not publicized. Bravo Uncle Miltie!

[@NoOne-kr4jc]

@@shirleyrombough8173 I've heard mixed opinions about him, but I think they were mixed IF you were working on his show, which makes sense. He's the boss, and he is going to make sure, like the reputation of a perfectionist as I bet you with lot of great famous comedians, he was going to create the best show he could possibly do. With that, I heard that he gave a rough time to ppl that did not praise him when they met him. I guess that's being human in an environment where people are constantly praising you, and you allow the "legend" to overshadow the person a bit. But yeah. Seems like a swell guy.

[@bogieviews]

@@NoOne-kr4jc He bragged about the size of his...

[@soulierinvestments]

One of the most prestigious sequences in WML. A guest of real substance. Carol Sandberg. No hog butcher he.

[@deriter64]

Great! You know your stuff, you must have Big Shoulders. But seriously I am mildly in awe of some of the guests that pop up on this show, I recently found Eleanor Roosevelt as a contestant.

[@bobtaylor170]

tiffsaver , unfortunately, we don't have famous people who have anything like the brilliance and star quality of the people who were even minor celebrities in the 50s and 60s.

[@danielfronc4304]

soulierinvestments *Carl SandbUrg.

[@hiyapal7719]

soulierinvestments You may have already noticed this, but his name was Carl, not Carol. You may want to edit your comment. Totally up to you. 😉

[@shirleyrombough8173]

soulierinvestments - He did write about hog butchers in one of his poems.

[@elizaheathen]

Arlene is seriously the most clever of all.

[@preppysocks209]

According to wikipedia, the face of E.T. was created as an amalgamation of three famous men, one of whom was Carl Sandburg.

[@jubalcalif9100]

Were the other two people Huntz Hall and Rondo Hatton ??

[@preppysocks209]

@@jubalcalif9100 -- no, Hemingway and Einstein

[@VahanNisanian]

Nick Adams was a good friend of James Dean and it was Adams who dubbed some of Dean's lines in his final film, "Giant".

[@joesmoe71]

***** Adam's death? Not really, he was having a lot of marital problems, was under a lot of stress and was taking too many prescription drugs. One night he took too many and in a bad combination, much like the way Heath Ledger died, sad and tragic to say the least, but not mysterious.

[@joesmoe71]

***** Yeah but by who and why? Rumors are rumors, but are there any real facts to hint at it? Maybe he was, but I'd like to see some proof before I'll believe that. BTW that issue aside, are there any good biographies written about him?

[@WhatsMyLine]

Andrew Tornadoboy Wow, this has all been very interesting. I didn't know the first thing about Nick Adams, myself.

[@peggiecastlefan8378]

Andrew Tornadoboy I'm a Nick Adams fan too. Filmfax Oct./Jan. 2002 no. 87-88 has a well written biography of him and issue No.119 has interview with his daughter. Who also has a book out called The Rebel and The King. About her father and Elvis. Mysteries and Scandals had a good episode about him. But it hasn't been posted on you tube yet. I recall it interviewed his friend Robert Conrad. He claimed that it was an accidental overdose.

[@joesmoe71]

peggie castle fan Thanks, I'll have to check them out, especially the one by his daughter! Yeah Adams had a lot of charisma on screen, he was great in some of my favorite B-movie horror films like Die Monster Die and Godzilla VS Monster Zero, of course neither of those were works of genius but he made his characters memorable and likable. One can't help but wonder how his career would have gone if his personal demons hadn't gotten him, I think he had enough talent that he could have become a Hollywood icon had he lived.

[@at90percent]

John Charles Daily only gave half the punchline of that joke. The punchline should be, You can tune a piano, but you can't tune a fish.

[@shirleyrombough8173]

Pianoman 70s style- Hah! I filled in the rest of the joke myself. It was funny.

[@davidsanderson5918]

Pianoman 70s style OH COME ON!! We KNOW!! That's why Daly left the ending off the punchline. One of the oldest rules of telling a joke....leave it hanging for the audience to fill in the rest.

[@davidsanderson5918]

Shirley Rombough Hey....EVERYONE filled in tne rest!! Sign of good joke telling.

[@davidsanderson5918]

Aritosthenes You are kidding, right?

[@shirleyrombough8173]

@Aritosthenes Floundering! But I wouldn't carp about it.

[@juliansinger]

Stand-Up Watch: Everyone did for Mr. Sandburg. (Who was 82 here.)

[@alskndlaskndal]

He looked great for 82!

[@joesmoe71]

RIP Mr. Adams, gone far too soon. :(

[@danielfronc4304]

Andrew Tornadoboy When anyone dies they die too soon.

[@Msnando09]

Daniel Fronc Yes but 36, leaving two small children Is definitely too young.

[@GOLDVIOLINbowofdeath]

Nick Adams was lovers with Elvis and closeted hence mentioning his wife twice.

[@accomplice55]

@@danielfronc4304 Really? I think the world would have been a better place if Hitler had died sooner.

[@jpayne2338]

Back when Hollywood had real talent and class

[@bt10ant]

Sooo true.

[@kennapop3]

What a treat, I drive by Carl's house at least four or five times a year.

[@tenealparduestats]

I grew up in Asheville so I've been there a few times.

[@randynelson4374]

lol True story-> In the early 90's: My weed dealer lived a half a block from Carl Sandburg's Birthplace in Galesburg, IL.

[@CoxJoxSox]

You'd think thy could smell the cigar

[@slaytonp]

Exactly what I think whenever someone comes on puffing on one. It seems to have made John cough, as well.

[@neilphelan145]

They surely did smell it but at that time a number of famous men smoked them. George Burns and Groucho Marx did just to name a couple. About half of the citizens of the US smoked cigarettes as well.

[@jubalcalif9100]

@@neilphelan145 Indubitably ! And even crime boss Ma Barker was known to smoke cigars. But it would be highly unlikely for her to be a Mystery Guest, since she was gunned down by the police in Florida in 1935 at the age of 61.

[@neilphelan145]

@@jubalcalif9100 .What a great word! Indubitably is a word hardly ever used these days. It says it all 👍

[@SMAY0001]

Nick Adams was so cool as the Rebel!!

[@juliansinger]

Miss Schofield went to the University of Pittsburgh, and was going to be a teacher. She may've migrated to Franklin, Indiana and been a teacher there for 33 years (retiring in 1999), but I'm not sure it's her. (The timing would make sense, but I don't have solid feeling or evidence either way.)

[@loissimmons6558]

I found the obituary of Russell Maxwell. He passed away on 7/19/16 at age 77 and was survived by his wife, Donna Lee (Schofield) Maxwell. The obituary appeared in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and it would appear the couple stayed in the Pittsburgh area throughout their marriage. Mr. Maxwell, like the second challenger, attended the University of Pittsburgh. While his wife's age is not listed in the obituary (as is customary), Russell was 77 years old when he died which would have made him around 21 years old in 1960, so the age would be in synch with the Donna Schofield who appeared on WML. What makes it more difficult to search is that there was a baseball player for the Pittsburgh Pirates by the name of Dick Schofield from 1958-63 (including their World Championship year of 1960) and his wife's name was Donna.

[@loissimmons6558]

According to the 1940 Census, Donna Lee Schofield was born approximately in 1939 and was living in Pittsburgh at the time of that census.

[@kasperjoonatan6014]

I have wondered why there were so few university people in WML. Many times Bennett and others suspected that, but no. Maybe in those days the scientists, professors, deans, lecturers, and other staff thought that tv entertainment was ridiculous and beneath them? Also, the panel many times missed the holidays. They didn't suspect anything christmassy in December or romance in Feb or fireworks in the beginning of July. Were those holidays not vastly celebrated in the US those days?

[@ReynaHerichan7769]

One of my fave episode... 😍

[@at90percent]

This show appeared in its original broadcast approximately 6 hours before I was born.

[@richatlarge462]

I was born between 2 and 3 episodes prior.

[@jubalcalif9100]

Maybe your mom was watching this episode when she started to feel those labor pains......

[@jacquelinebell6201]

I was a month away from being born.

[@horatiohornblower5626]

Ahhh. The respect of that era.

[@leannsherman6723]

Yes.

[@ModMokkaMatti]

Too bad Milton Berle had to stink up the joint in more than one way. 👎

[@Chris-lh7wj]

I assume he means Kennedy with his presidential prediction, which of course turned out to be correct but I did not realize how close it was against Nixon.

[@bogieviews]

Yeah, there were some shenanigans in Chicago that put JFK over the top. I can't imagine how history would be different if Nixon had won. I was devastated when JFK was murdered.

[@ROMMELEARLDIGO]

two tragic panelists: Dorothy Kilgallen and Nick Adams

[@hiyapal7719]

Poor Mr. Daly... those cigars get to him. 😔

[@DaCoach68]

There is a cute article in the Pittsburgh Press regarding Miss Schofield and her job with the chimps.

[@MrUhwoody]

Nick Adams left us too soon. Loved him in "No Time For Sergeants".

[@jubalcalif9100]

I heartily concur. He could be a very effective actor in the right kind of role. Sadly, he was only 36 when he passed away from a drug overdose in 1968.

[@acousticshadow4032]

Carl Sandburg - I can die now.

[@lynnedonaldson4010]

Very refreshing, Dorothy and Arlene don’t stand up for most guests

[@Rosey01222]

Carl Sandburg, if SNL were planning to do a comedy sketch around a poet stereotype, they'd use Sandburg as a model. With that idiosyncratic hairdo, so consciously affected, what other line of work could this man be in?!

[@caroler01]

Nick Adams was so cute in “Picnic”.

[@jubalcalif9100]

He played a newspaper carrier called "Bomber". Very good in his small role.

[@Baskerville22]

Third time i've seen Milton Berle as Celeb guest. I have Sandburg's 6-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln (Sangamon edition)

[@jubalcalif9100]

Maybe he bribed the show's casting director.....

[@TheBraveIntrovert]

Dorothy should've been a lawyer...or a detective.

[@kurts7969]

Or a dentist !

[@wholeNwon]

Well, as to the "detective"....

[@secondstring]

She did pretty well as it was.

[@wholeNwon]

@M M We'll never know the truth.

[@shirleyrombough8173]

@@wholeNwon There are a few books out today that discuss her role in trying to learn who actually did kill JFK. It is called, I believe, The Reporter who Knew too Much. I don't remember the author.

[@christophermorgan3261]

His two volume Lincoln bio was panned by critics as "mythologizing" but its still great. His poetry is barely read anymore, he wrote too much, but a few things are ok. Love his hair, great looking old guy.

[@waldolydecker8118]

Langston Hughes, poet laureate of Harlem, sited the writings of Carl Sandburg as his initial inspiration for becoming a writer.

[@Merrida100]

I always wondered if they could smell the cigar or cigarette smoke from contestants as they were passing?

[@GBS1043]

Difficult to believe I am only one person away from Carl. I knew his daughter, Helga Crile

[@scottmiller6495]

Milton Berle was a great man and a fabulous entertainer!!!!!

[@johnloudaros800]

I'm surprised that the panel can't smell the cigar he's smoking

[@barbarataylor3493]

One thing I don’t miss about the era…smoking everywhere , all the time!

[@SuperWinterborn]

Well, maybe it wasn't that difficult to guess, but C. Sandburg's "prophecy" about which candidate who would win the election in November that year was right. John F. Kennedy became the 35th President of U.S.A. January 20th 1961.

[@savethetpc6406]

SuperWinterborn I'm not 100% sure, but John Daly's relieved reaction and the laughter from the panel after Carl Sandburg stated his "prophecy" makes me think this wasn't really much of a prediction at all. I think the joke was that, compared to then-President Eisenhower, both candidates had "luxuriant heads of hair." However, I looked up some images of Nixon in 1960, and his hairline was definitely receding already, so maybe Mr. Sandburg was being doubly coy and less impartial than he seemed?

[@SuperWinterborn]

SaveThe TPC One thing is for sure; Sandburg were pointing at Kennedy as the winner, and he was for sure also a Democrat, like most of the intellectuals were, and still are. Of course it wasn't meant as a "prophesy", more like a statement of opinion and hope. Concerning Daly's relieved reaction; He wasn't too pleased, when some on the panel or a guest, tried to express political views, and was relieved, when all were laughing, as it had been a joke, which it wasn't, just told in a harmless tone. Bennett has often made remarks about the "working man's rights" etc, and Daly has always cut him off by starting a chat about something completely different. (I'm quite sure most of the panel were left-winged, but Daly? Well... Could be both, or wished to be non-political -- He would in any way, have made the perfect Diplomat) Anyway, in 1960 there was a close race between Kennedy and Nixon, and no one could be sure about the result the last weeks before the election.

[@Msnando09]

SuperWinterborn The 60 election was touch and go.

[@shirleyrombough8173]

SuperWinterborn - And how we need him now.

[@shirleyrombough8173]

Kennedy I mean.

[@CoxJoxSox]

Benett keeps asking 2 questions in one

[@rogerrobin2774]

How delightfully rare to see someone as erudite as JCD confuse “bemused” with “amused.” I am bemused that it happened, yet amused all the same.

[@hannahfitch8977]

A great writer with nice hair.

[@DerekWitt]

Oh wow. Sandburg predicted JFK's election win at 8:25. His sly description of JFK of having a luxurious head of hair is so apt of him. :)

[@RonGerstein]

All he predicted was that the winner would have a luxurious head of hair. Eisenhower, the current president, was bald by then, so either candidate, Nixon and Kennedy, fit the prediction.

[@WmGood]

WHAT A SHOW!!!!!!!! Damn!!!!

[@leannsherman6723]

Most unusual hairstyle that Mr. Sandburg was donning.

[@ew_barf]

Nick Adam is so incredibly adorable

[@soulierinvestments]

Bennett Cerf: Nice work if you can get it. 4:25 17:40 One of the strangest patterns in all WML. Dorothy Kilgallen got it into her head that Casey Stengl is about to appear as a mystery guest, so she deviced an iron-clad only-Dorothy-knows question to identify him. Stengel apparently studied dentistry at one time. She asked EVERY mystery guest for weeks that d@^^ dentistry question until she must have provoked comment in the tabloid columns. This was only one of several signs that she went off the trolley in this period. In a few months -- January 1961 -- she was off the show for several taping sessions and live broadcast while hospitalized for substance abuse.

[@CaseyRalph]

By a crazy coincidence, when Dorothy Kilgallen returned to the show after her stint in the hospital as the mystery guest on the February 5, 1961 episode, one of the civvie contestants really was a dentist.

[@peterwinkler3570]

Ironically, Dorothy did not ask the dentistry question when the mystery guest was indeed Casey Stengel.

[@kurts7969]

Thanks for explanation, I wondered what was going on.

[@angelajoseph6709]

I remember Jazz icon Miles Davis had warned Dorothy his friend not to mix alcohol with prescription drugs/pain relievers. RIP Miles and Dorothy.

[@jubalcalif9100]

@@CaseyRalph I remember that episode ! That dentist seemed depressed. Certainly looked "down in the mouth".....

[@sansacro007]

Berle was hysterical.

[@greglehmann7234]

Great poet who often wrote about Abraham Lincoln and Chicago.

[@adamcoates2890]

Wow that last 5 minutes was just a whirlwind of six people all trying to out talk each other and have camera time and promote themselves. Hilarious!

[@lennypearl]

I wonder if the panel could smell Milton's cigar? Wouldn't that have been a clue?

[@Richard-b5r9v]

Nick Adams was in the TV series Johnny Yuma ?

[@RyLHatch1989]

Donna Schofield Maxwell died in 2019 at the age of 80.

[@jubalcalif9100]

And Lois Maxwell died in 2007 at the age of 80.

[@scotnick59]

Rutabaga Stories!

[@jubalcalif9100]

And who doesn't love a good rutabaga story ??

[@dinahbrown902]

You can tune a piano but you can’t tune a fish. REO Speedwagon. Good Album 70s

[@jubalcalif9100]

Ha ! Reminds me of the musical fish, the Piano Tuna !! 🤣

[@shirleyrombough8173]

Love Bennett's puns.

[@leannsherman6723]

Arlene got that zoo line fast!

[@nancypine9952]

+What's My Line? I've become curious about something. There have been some comments, particularly in the early years, regarding the panel paying in case they lost. I had assumed this was a joke, and that Goodson Todman paid. But another comment was made relatively recently in the show's history about making the guest panelist pay, and I've been wondering: it can't actually be that the panel paid when they lost, could it? I know that all of them were rich people, but over the years they would have lost a huge amount of money. Could anyone possibly clarify as to who it was who paid when the panel lost?

[@markschildberg1667]

You may have confused WML with another Goodson Todman game called The Name’s the Same. On that show panelists who did not identify the contestant’s famous name wrote a check to the contestant for $25. But this was a gimmick; it was G-T who paid the prizes. On WML, no panelists paid anything. All WML contestants received the full $50; the scoring was just a gimmick.

[@joycejean-baptiste4355]

Mr. Carl Sandberg reminds me of Buddy Epson for some reason, his hair and and face bear aslight resemblance. Lol!

[@caroler01]

Mel Brookes says you’ve got to steal from the best in comedy.

[@johnahearn7964]

John Charles Daly had 4 sons and all 4 shared his first name!!!!

[@joycejean-baptiste4355]

If JFK had a luxuriant head of hair I wonder if he's who Mr. Carl Sandberg was thinking about.

[@bogieviews]

Well, between Nixon and JFK...

[@gregkreinberg3268]

Great.

[@jubalcalif9100]

Why would "Uncle Miltie" pretend like he wanted to slug Nick Adams for asking if he was Ernest Hemingway ? I don't understand why he would be offended by such a question. Baffling....

[@jmason2838]

Just my humble opinion ..Two people on this panel were murdered : Dorothy Kilgallen and Nick Adams .. both murdered for knowing too much 😔.😭😠.📯✝️☯️🛐🔎📖🔍

[@accomplice55]

Kilgallen, yes. What did Adam know too much about?

[@gregorymiller2505]

"yep."

[@bandini22221]

Unbelievable

[@ToddSF]

Don't you just love the bow in Dorothy's hair in this episode? I truly don't. I also think it wasn't a practical choice given the type of blindfold she had with those long satin ties that went right over the hair bow.

[@djdon60]

finds it ignorant, when audience members applaud, just, for the "on the right "track" guesses, thereby, interfering, with normal game-play. I trust the offenders were ejected, from the theatre/ theater.

[@preppysocks209]

Carl Sandburg's star has fallen quite a bit over the years. His biography of Lincoln used to be considered a standard reference but now it is viewed more as fiction. Of course, author bias has ruined many a biography. It has been said that other than John Wilkes Booth, no one did more damage to Lincoln than Carl Sandburg.

[@drumbum3.142]

Uncle Miltie Looks (just a bit) like Oscar Levant ..

[@jubalcalif9100]

I have a notion to second THAT emotion. The big difference being Oscar was a chain smoker of cigarettes and Milton liked to smoke cigars.

[@drumbum3.142]

@@jubalcalif9100 Yes Indeed.

[@timothyball7502]

2-3-2023. Carl should visit a Barber. His hair is a mess. It should be brushed or a comb run through his hair.

[@crabbyoldman8209]

One would think Sandburg could have afforded a haircut.

[@jubalcalif9100]

Perhaps he preferred the "wild and wooly" look....

[@poetcomic1]

Nick Adams??? BAD choice for a panel - his answers were beyond idiotic.

[@markxxx21]

He had a wife?

[@loissimmons6558]

+poetcomic1 It was face palm time during the second MG round when the panel had established that they were trying to guess a famous comedian and Adams guessed Sir Lawrence Olivier!

[@wholeNwon]

Guest panelists were very rarely Rhodes Scholars. Show people in general tend to fall well below that standard.

[@crystalcrespo5385]

@@loissimmons6558 I thought he was just joking, because he had no idea who it was or what to ask next.

[@jubalcalif9100]

@@markxxx21 Yes, indeed. Nick Adams was married to actress Carol Nugent from 1969 to 1968. They had two children, a son & daughter.

[@johnkennethmccloskey]

Completely FAKE!!!

[@markxxx21]

Nick Adams's gossip was that he was a Hollywood hustler and a he was a junkie, thus both Bennett and Dorothy would've likedhim

[@shirleyrombough8173]

Markxxx - I doubt that either was a junkie. Dorothy was killed because she, after years of dogged research, got too close to discovering who killed JFK. As for Bennett, I doubt he was a junkie; too many positive books and articles written about him.