Star:	John Daly (Moderator (1950-1967)),  Dorothy Kilgallen (Regular Panelist (1950-1965)),  Bennett Cerf (Regular Panelist (1951-1967)),  Arlene Francis (Regular Panelist (1950-1967))
Guest Star:	Perle Mesta (Mystery Guest #2),  Robert Trout (Mystery Guest Team),  Eric Sevareid (Mystery Guest Team),  Douglas Edwards (Mystery Guest Team),  Walter Cronkite (Mystery Guest Team),  Charles Collingwood (I) (Mystery Guest Team),  Bergen Evans (Guest Panelist)

Victor Milazzo is not the same guest who made political campaign buttons who appeared twice on WML. The man who appeared twice, on EPISODE #104 of May 25, 1952 and again on EPISODE #635 of October 21, 1962, was Emanuel Ress, who owned the Emress Specialty Company. On Emanuel's 1962 appearance, he gave John and the panel buttons personalized with their 1952 photos. - Suzanne (edit) WELCOME TO CHICAGO!!! As part of the festivities surrounding the Democratic National Convention, John and the panel travelled to Chicago for a very special edition of WML. Joining the panel for this occasion was college professor, former game show host and dictionary author Dr. Bergen Evans, who did a fairly good job this particular evening. However, the hot one was Chicago's own Dorothy Mae Kilgallen. In the first game, Dolly Mae correctly identified the first guests as CBS's broadcasting team for the convention. After the game, "Uncle Walter" and the CBS crew - and John, who would be handling ABC's coverage - took time to playfully rib each other and jokingly warned each other not to get any scoops. In the second game, the panel was totally stumped by Mr. Connally, who was a peanut farmer by trade, but was in town as part of the Texas delegation to the convention. In the mystery guest round, Dorothy correctly identified "Hostess With the Mostest" Perle Mesta, who was in town to host one of the charitable parties that would be taking place during the convention. In the final game, the panel ran out of time, so the political campaign button maker won the full prize by default. - Sargebri (edit) Perle Mesta will be hosting a fund-raising party on Tuesday night. We also learn that her life story will be portrayed next year on "Playhouse 90" in an episode aptly called "The Hostess with the Mostest." It will air on March 21, 1957 and the role of Perle will be played by Shirley Booth. - Suzanne (edit) Merrill Connally, the guest in game two, is the brother of John B. Connally. (John Connally served as the governor of Texas from 1963-1969. He also served under both Presidents Kennedy and Johnson, and was wounded when President Kennedy was assassinated.) Merrill Connally had a twenty-year acting career and has a page on IMDB featuring roles in movies such as 1974's "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" and 1991's "Rush." He passed away in 2001. - Suzanne (edit) John Daly wins his second Peabody Award in the spring of 1957 for his coverage of the 1956 National Conventions. In the future, he will win one more. Information from the Peabody Awards website is below. - Suzanne
Year: 1956
Title: ABC Television
Institutional Award for Television News Coverage of the National Political Conventions
Producing Organizations: ABC Television & John Charles Daly
City/State: New York, New York
Last summer, the American Broadcasting Company, with department head John Daly and a carefully picked team, covered the Democratic and Republican national conventions. The result was a perfect example of how an important news event should be brought home to a television audience. Without pyrotechnics or irrelevant diversions, reporting from the floor of each convention instead of in elaborate studios behind the scenes, Daly and his lieutenants, both in front of the cameras and behind them, did precisely the jobs that had been assigned to them. The Peabody Committee salutes them individually and collectively, with a special nod to the big brass at ABC for recognizing a good thing when they saw it on their screens. (edit)

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