Teenaged contestant Abraham Lincoln came out in a borrowed suit coat many sizes too large for him. Moderator Robert Q. Lewis mocked the rule that men had to wear coats on TV. He asked the young man if he'd be more comfortable without it, helped him out of the coat and unceremoniously folded it over the back of young Mr. Lincoln's chair.
The contestants were: Miss A. FISH, Mr. Ronald REAGAN (same name as the then-actor/President-yet-to-be), Mr. Abraham LINCOLN and Mr. Al SMITH (same name as the late four-time New York governor). In the celebrity ''I'd Like to Be'' segment, the actual Ronald REAGAN wished he was the man who was the first to reach the summit of Mount Everest two months earlier, Sir Edmund HILLARY.
The telecast was live from New York and was sponsored by ''C.A. Swanson and Sons of Omaha, Nebraska, packers of America's best-known brand of canned and frozen poultry.''