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00:01You're watching Game Show Network.
00:11Number one, what is your name, please?
00:13My name is Stan Cottrell.
00:16Number two.
00:17My name is Stan Cottrell.
00:20And number three.
00:21My name is Stan Cottrell.
00:24Only one of these people is the real Stan Cottrell
00:27and has sworn to tell the truth.
00:38And now, let's meet our panel.
00:42Our verbal virtuoso, Nipsey Russell.
00:45A lady whose television career has led her
00:47from Boston to Washington to San Francisco.
00:49Finally, luckily for us, to New York, Pat Collins.
00:52Star of stage screen television in your living room,
00:55Soupy Sales.
00:57And the chairman of the New York State Council for the Arts,
00:59our own Kitty Carlisle.
01:01That's our panel.
01:04Now, the host of To Tell The Truth, Robin Ward.
01:08Thank you very much, and a marvelous bunch here in our studio audience.
01:24And panelists, good to see you.
01:26Are you feeling good?
01:27Ready to play?
01:28We're feeling great.
01:29Let's get right down into the problem,
01:30presented by our first team of challengers,
01:32all three of whom claim to be Stan Cottrell.
01:35And would you follow along, please, as I read this affidavit.
01:38I, Stan Cottrell, ran all the way from New York City to San Francisco
01:43in the world record time of 48 days.
01:46I averaged better than 66 miles for each of the days I was on the road.
01:50And I stopped after every 25 miles to soak my feet in ice water.
01:55In addition to my latest achievement, I hold the American record for the 100-mile run,
01:59and the 20th century record for the most miles covered in five days.
02:03Since it had been discovered that I use relatively little oxygen when I run,
02:07and burn very few calories, I have been called the most fuel-efficient human being in the world.
02:12Signed, Stan Cottrell.
02:23All right, panel, these three very healthy-looking gentlemen
02:26all claim to be Stan Cottrell, cross-country runner.
02:28And let's start the questioning with Pat Collins.
02:30Number three, what was the most difficult part of the trip?
02:34I'm thinking of, like, the Rocky Mountains.
02:36The most difficult part of the trip was not the Rocky Mountains.
02:38Unfortunately, it was Kansas.
02:40Kansas?
02:42Yes, I had rain and 30 to 40-mile-per-hour headwinds against me the whole way.
02:46It was a real trial.
02:48At any point, number two, did you think you might not make it?
02:52No, I never permitted myself to think that.
02:54Never?
02:55No.
02:56Number one, do you have a job, aside from running around the country?
03:00For the past two years, running's been my full-time job.
03:03What did you do about your real job?
03:05I was director of marketing for a major health care company.
03:09And what did you do?
03:10You quit?
03:11I quit.
03:12To run?
03:13To run.
03:14Number two, what did your wife think about that?
03:15Thank you, Pat.
03:16We're going to soupy sales.
03:17Thank you, Robert.
03:18Number two, why did you do this?
03:19This is something I'd always wanted to do.
03:20It was my fantasy.
03:22How many people are with you when you do this?
03:24I had four people total riding in two vehicles.
03:26Are they running two?
03:27They ran with me for a couple of miles during the day.
03:29And then what did they do?
03:30Get in a car and laugh at you?
03:31Yeah, we had a van and a station wagon.
03:33Well, number one, how much weight did you lose?
03:37Two pounds.
03:38Is that right?
03:40Number three, how long have you been doing this?
03:42Been doing this now for 12 years.
03:44Number one, what do you eat when you're running?
03:50A great deal of fruits and vegetables.
03:52Number two, are you allowed?
03:54And we go to Kitty.
03:55Number two, how often do you eat?
03:57I eat usually three meals a day, sometimes four.
03:59Very heavy on carbohydrates.
04:01And do you stop in motels and things like that?
04:04Yes.
04:05And number three, do you have problems when you're running through town
04:07with dogs running after you?
04:09No, actually, my advance crew takes care of all that for me
04:12before I ever arrive in the town.
04:14Oh, well, number two, what do you get?
04:15I mean, is this for a prize or a Guinness Book of Records
04:18or do you do it for money?
04:21What is it?
04:22Well, it's mainly for my own self-satisfaction.
04:24I have four world records now.
04:26Number one, how do you live then?
04:28Speaking engagements mainly.
04:30Uh-huh.
04:31And number three, you're not independently wealthy?
04:33No, no, not at all.
04:34And you make enough money from speaking engagements?
04:37Actually, no.
04:38Can we go down the line to Nipsey Russell?
04:40Number one, what's your normal heart rate?
04:43I have a rest and pulse rate of 32.
04:45I see.
04:46And number two, who traveled with you?
04:48There was a specialist of some sort that traveled with you on this run, didn't you?
04:52Physiologist.
04:53Physiologist?
04:54A nutritionist and two drivers for the vehicles.
04:56Okay.
04:57Number two, where did you sleep?
04:59Number three, where did you sleep?
05:01I slept in motels, hotels that people donated to me along the way.
05:05Okay, let me go right back to number two right quick.
05:07What you say, you burned very few calories.
05:10What kind of diet did you use?
05:12My diet was mainly carbohydrates, anywhere from a minimum of 72% to a maximum of 92%.
05:17Yeah.
05:18Number one, do you know Dick Gregory?
05:21Uh, I know that he ran across the United States.
05:24Time is up, and now it's time, panel, to vote for number one, number two, or number three, whoever, in your opinion, is the real Stan Cottrell.
05:34And we will pay $100 for each incorrect vote, and four incorrect votes will give our team of challengers $500.
05:40Are the ballots all marked?
05:41Pat, who did you vote for?
05:43I'm sorry that I will have to disqualify myself.
05:45I happen to know who Mr. Cottrell is because I had the pleasure of interviewing him two hours after he reached his destination in San Francisco for Good Morning America.
05:54So I know.
05:55All right.
05:56And I'm not going to tell.
05:57Okay, Soupy, do you know, or do you have a vote?
05:59I'm going to tell you, Soupy.
06:00Do I know?
06:02Is Loretta Young?
06:04Is Helen Reddy?
06:06Is Marvin Gaye?
06:08Are you kidding?
06:09Well, they all were, they were all great, but number two seems to know all about the calories and what you burn up and everything, and you've got to be thin if you run like that, so I voted for number two.
06:20Okay, and Kitty, who got your vote?
06:22I voted for number one.
06:23Number one has a slightly gaunt look, a little hollowed out, and he says he makes money from speaking engagements, and I just believe, the only thing is, 30, did you say 32 pulse rate?
06:34I thought maybe that was when you were dead.
06:36And Nipsey, who got your vote?
06:40Yeah, I think if he had only a pulse rate of 32, his feet wouldn't be touching the ground when he ran.
06:45I voted for number two because he knew about the nutritionist and the specialist and the carbohydrate is what you need for immediate energy.
06:53All right, the votes are all in.
06:54Now we're going to find out which of these gentlemen is the real holder of the across-the-U.S. record round.
06:58Well, the real Stan Cottrell, please stand up.
07:03Get up, number two.
07:05Get up, number two.
07:07Oh!
07:08I coached him well.
07:09You know I know.
07:10Let's find out who our impostors are.
07:11Number two, you did very well.
07:12You got two votes.
07:13Could you tell us, please, who you are and what you really do?
07:14My name is David Alden, and I'm a reinsurance intermediary here in New York City.
07:18And number three, you look like a runner to me.
07:19Would you tell us, please, something about yourself?
07:20Right.
07:21I'm Joe Jeff, and I'm a theatrical producer and university professor in Washington, D.C.
07:22Yeah!
07:23Yeah!
07:24Yeah!
07:25Yeah!
07:26Stan, how many pairs of sneakers are you?
07:27Yeah!
07:28Stan, how many pairs of sneakers did you go through in this kind of run across the country?
07:33Uh, I didn't wear out a pair of shoes at all, and I only used two pair.
07:36And number three, you look like a runner to me.
07:39Would you tell us, please, something about yourself?
07:40Right.
07:41I'm Joe Jeff, and I'm a theatrical producer and university professor in Washington, D.C.
07:45Yeah!
07:46Stan, how many pairs of sneakers did you go through in this kind of run across the country?
07:58Uh, I didn't wear out a pair of shoes at all, and I only used two pair.
08:02And these particular shoes will be out in September.
08:04What's your next project, your next running project?
08:06We are very heavily involved in negotiating with various state departments now, and if
08:13everything goes well, I'll be the first person to run the China Wall.
08:16The China Wall.
08:17Fantastic.
08:18Marvelous.
08:19That's what we're working on.
08:20Well, congratulations.
08:22And I wish you great success with that project.
08:23Well, there were two incorrect votes and one disqualification, giving $300 to our team
08:27of challengers.
08:28You're a remarkable man.
08:29Thanks for joining us on Tell the Truth.
08:30See two of you on One on One is at the moment.
08:33And we'll be jogging back right after these words of wisdom from the people who pay the bills.
08:43Thank you, Alan.
08:44We're back.
08:45Let's meet our next team of challengers, panel.
08:48That's okay with you.
08:52Number one, what is your name, please?
08:54My name is Christopher Janus.
08:57Number two.
08:58My name is Christopher Janus.
09:01And number three.
09:03My name is Christopher Janus.
09:06All right, panel, once again, would you follow along as I read.
09:10I, Christopher Janus, am a business consultant, but I have spent the last eight years searching
09:15for the bones of the Peking man, an ancestor of modern man who lived more than half a million
09:20years ago and whose remains were unearthed in 1926.
09:24Skulls of the Peking man and bones that were found with them have been missing since 1941
09:29when the Japanese invaded China and the footlockers in which they were stored vanished.
09:34I have covered four continents in search of these priceless fossils and followed more
09:38than 300 leads, all to no avail.
09:41Last year, however, I was contacted by a man who claimed he saw two U.S. Marines bury a mysterious
09:46footlocker in Peking nearly 40 years ago.
09:49If the story checks out and we find the Peking man, it will be worth every bit of the time
09:54and money I have spent on the search since 1972.
09:57Signed, Christopher Janus.
10:07All right, panel, these three gentlemen all claim to be Christopher Janus, the searcher
10:10for the Peking man.
10:11Let's start the questioning with our own Peking man, Soupy Sales.
10:14That's right.
10:16It says here that you've been looking for the bones of a man who lived more than a half
10:19a million years in 1926.
10:21Now, I was born in 1926.
10:23I could be your guy.
10:24Is it on?
10:25Oh, okay.
10:26Anyway, that's right.
10:27That's right.
10:28You're looking for the Peking man, you're looking for my brother in Columbus.
10:35He's a guy always looking into something.
10:37But anyway, what would be the value in this footlocker, number one?
10:41Well, that would contain the fossils of the man.
10:45Number two, how do you know these things were buried in a footlocker?
10:48We know that they were in a footlocker.
10:50Number three, how do you know they were in a footlocker?
10:52Well, the Chinese told us that they gave these fossils to our United States Marines.
10:59Maybe it was buried in a fortune cookie.
11:03They came later.
11:06Thank you, Soupy, for that in-depth questioning.
11:09And we go to Kitty Carlisle.
11:11Well, number one, it is most mysterious.
11:13Are you an anthropologist?
11:15No, I'm not.
11:16Well, number two, how did you come across this story?
11:19And where were the bones found originally?
11:22The bones were discovered about 40 miles southwest of Peking.
11:26And number three, who were the anthropologists who found them?
11:29There was a Canadian among the first discoverers, Davidson Black.
11:33Oh, number two, who were the leakies?
11:35I don't know.
11:36Well, number one, then after they were discovered and put in a museum, somebody gave them to the footlocker people?
11:42No, they were in China southwest of Peking at the time the Japanese were coming in and paying a visit.
11:50And they were given over to the Marine Corps to bring back here.
11:54And they didn't do it.
11:55And we go to Nipsey Russell.
11:57Number three, how old is the recorded history of the Chinese civilization?
12:03Oh, I think it goes back way beyond Greece.
12:07I think that at least 8,000 years.
12:10Okay.
12:11And number two, how would one validate the age of bones more than a million years old, or half a million years old?
12:20Through the carbon-14 process.
12:22I see.
12:23Number one, after how much time does the human anatomy disintegrate entirely and resolve into the Earth?
12:32Well, I'm not a scientist on that, but we've had things going back, so carbon-14 has said maybe a million years.
12:39I'm trying to see, would a skeleton be identifiable as such after half a million years, number two?
12:45Yes, it can be.
12:48And we go to Pat Collins.
12:49Number two, what are the value of these bones?
12:51What, if you look at them and they are authenticated, what will they tell us about how those people lived?
12:56It would tell us, for example, from the size of the skull, it would tell us the brain material, the condition of the bones would tell us a lot about it.
13:08Number, thank you.
13:09Number three, there is a disease that, regrettably, is all too common today in today's civilization that is absolutely not traceable back to the period you're talking about.
13:17What is it?
13:18There's a disease?
13:19I don't know what that disease is.
13:20Uh-huh.
13:21Number, number, I'm sorry, number one, I didn't get to talk to you.
13:23The bell says time is up.
13:24Panel, now it's time, of course, to vote for number one, number two, or number three, whoever, in your opinion, is the real Christopher Janus.
13:34And, Soupy, who did you vote for?
13:38Well, both of them, number one, number two, discussed the carbon-14 process, but I hope if you find the bones, you'll save them for Henry Jones, because he don't eat no meat.
13:46He don't eat no meat.
13:47So, it doesn't have anything to do with the selection, but I, number two, seemed to know what he was doing, and I voted for him.
13:53And, Kitty, who did you vote for?
13:55Well, I don't think it's any of them.
13:56Number three didn't, he didn't know how long the Chinese civilization had been around.
14:01Number two didn't know who the Leakeys were, a very famous anthropologist.
14:05So, I voted for number one, but I don't think it's he either.
14:08Okay, and, Nipsey, who got your vote?
14:10Well, I wanted to vote for a number two because of his establishing the relationship between the side and the shape of the head and the brain capacity,
14:18but he and number one both said they weren't scientists, so because this, number three said that Greek civilization was predated by the Chinese.
14:28Pat, who'd you vote for?
14:29But Roman, my votes are number one.
14:31It's cancer that's the disease not found in prehistoric man.
14:34Okay, now we're going to find out which of these gentlemen is, in fact, searching for the remains of the Peking man.
14:39Will the real Christopher Janus, please stand up?
14:44Three, one, two, three.
14:45Yeah.
14:46Great.
14:47Are you, are you a scientist, Mr. Russell?
14:50My pardon?
14:51Are you a scientist?
14:52Well, I played hooky from a good school.
15:05Well, I played hooky from a good school.
15:09Let's find out who our impostors are.
15:11Number one, you got two votes.
15:12Would you tell us, please, who you are and what you really do?
15:15I'm Robert Arnold.
15:16I'm a portrait painter settled here in New York City.
15:26And number two, you also got a vote.
15:28Would you tell us, please, something about yourself?
15:29I'm Pete Dinos, and I'm an operations auditor for a Fortune 100 company.
15:41Mr. Janice, we can't help you find Peking Man,
15:43but I know where some Peking duck bones are.
15:45It's a Chinese restaurant just uptown.
15:47There were three incorrect votes.
15:48You're getting to be terrible, Robert.
15:49I know. You can't stop me now.
15:51There are three incorrect votes at $100 each,
15:53giving $300 to our team of challengers.
15:55Good luck with your continued studies.
15:56And, gentlemen, we'll see two of you on What I Want in just a moment.
15:59Thank you very much.
16:00And we'll be right back after these words.
16:12It's America.
16:14It's time now, panel, to play one-on-one.
16:16Can you keep it down a bit, Soupy?
16:17Time to play one-on-one.
16:19You remember, here are four people you've met before.
16:21Here they come.
16:22Now, panel, you remember David and Joe,
16:33who pretended to be the cross-country runner,
16:35and you remember Bob and Peter,
16:36who pretended to be the person who was looking for Peking Man.
16:40Now, you've met these people before,
16:41but there is one fact about one of them
16:43that we have withheld from you until this very moment.
16:45Tell us what.
16:46I will be.
16:46One of these four people teaches a course
16:50in how to write love letters,
16:52and it's up to you to find out which one.
16:53And here's how you go about it.
16:55You will each have 20 seconds
16:56to question the person sitting directly opposite you.
16:58At the end of that time,
16:59you'll be asked to state right there and then
17:01whether that person, in fact,
17:02teaches a course in love letter writing.
17:04Once again, we pay $100 for each incorrect vote,
17:06and four incorrect votes.
17:07We'll give our team of challengers $500.
17:10And, Kitty, are you ready to question David?
17:11Oh, yes.
17:12And start.
17:13Number, David,
17:14what is the most important prerequisite
17:17for a good love letter?
17:18Oh, sincerity.
17:19Oh, is that all?
17:20That's it.
17:21Anybody can write a love letter.
17:23Oh, number one.
17:24I mean, David,
17:25who was Cyrano de Bergerac?
17:27He was a very famous,
17:28I'll say a lover.
17:31That's right.
17:31Yeah, that's a very good word.
17:33Now.
17:34Kitty, is David our love letter teacher,
17:36yes or no?
17:38I think so.
17:39Yes for David.
17:40Yeah.
17:41Soupy, you ready to question Joe?
17:42Then start now.
17:44Joe, what is the secret
17:45of writing a good love letter?
17:47The secret, Soupy,
17:48is to captivate the lovers,
17:50the correspondents' attention immediately
17:53to seize their imagination.
17:55Ha!
17:56Ha!
17:56Oh, ha!
17:58Where do you teach this?
18:00I teach this course
18:02at the Open University of Washington, D.C.
18:04Ah, and...
18:05Soupy,
18:06is Joe our love letter teacher?
18:07Yes.
18:08Yes for Joe.
18:12Pat, are you ready to question Bob?
18:13Yes.
18:14Then start now.
18:15Bob, give us a couple of ideas
18:18on how you would sign off a love letter,
18:20something really intriguing.
18:22Well, it already depends
18:23which type of letter you're writing.
18:25Something really mushy.
18:27Oh, wow.
18:29I don't think I can allow this.
18:31You can't allow this.
18:32You can't say passionately yours.
18:34I suppose that stuff is out.
18:35No, no, no, not passionately.
18:36No, that's all cool.
18:37Unfortunately, we can't allow demonstrations here.
18:39Oh.
18:39Wait a minute.
18:40Bob Hart, love letter writing professor,
18:42yes or no?
18:43No.
18:44We have a no for Bob.
18:45Sorry, Bob.
18:46Nipsey, you're ready to question Peter.
18:48Right.
18:48Then start now.
18:49Peter, do you use a special kind of stationery?
18:52I beg your pardon?
18:52Do you use a special kind of stationery?
18:55No, I do not.
18:57Do you use the possessive pronoun
18:59in your salutation,
19:00like my darling, my sweetheart, my beloved?
19:02No, I do not.
19:03No.
19:04Simpsons?
19:05What kind of beloved?
19:06Huh?
19:06I beg your pardon?
19:07I said sex maniacs are hard of hearing.
19:09Oh, I beg your pardon.
19:11Oh, I beg your pardon.
19:28Well, I don't think he is the letter writer.
19:31That's a no for Peter.
19:32We have a no.
19:34Okay, the decisions have been made,
19:35and now it's truth time.
19:36And will the real love letter teacher please stand up?
19:40Joe. Joe. It's Joe.
19:44It's Joe. Yeah!
19:57Thank you, Joe.
19:58You know, I get love letters all the time, but they always look mimeographed to me.
20:00I don't know what it is.
20:01Okay, there was one incorrect vote, giving you $100 to spend freely, as you will, all four of you.
20:07And we'd like to thank you very much for joining us on The Tellsworth One-on-One.
20:11Keep up the good work.
20:12Romance is not dead.
20:16And we'll be back to finish this madness in just a few minutes.
20:20Panel, we have reached the end of another zany half hour.
20:32Thank you for being with us.
20:33Thank you for being with us, and hope to see you the same time next time on To Tell the Truth.
20:37Thank you so much.
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