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TIME'S UP!
imagined what quizmaster Bert Parks is like when not giving away those fabulous prizes?
Bert invariably is as overjoyed as if he had won the prize. He advises, "Don't be nerv Bert's sprightly ad-libbing breaks up two ous. Pay attention to questions. Forget yourself and the audience. But above all, relax." Waves. He's been singer, announcer, comic.
Saturday following their lucky night.
Although they never expected to win, an Amityville, Long Island, statistician and his wife walked off with a cool $5,000. They didn't have any plans as to how they would spend it, but admitted it was the most thrilling experience in their life.
Mr. and Mrs. E. G. Berlenger of Texas won $3,100, when they Broke The Bank. This was about the beginning of December. Just before Christmas, the Berlengers received a prepaid express crate containing a little burro with a red ribbon around its neck and a card inscribed "from your Texas television public." Mrs. Berlenger said, "Breaking the Bank was
one thing, but breaking in a burro for our little daughter, three-and-a-halfyear-old Nora, is something I'm not looking forward to."
young engineer, at that time in the Coast Guard, won $2,550. Lt. (j.g.) Robert Price won the prize during a trip to New York. Bert asked him, "In the movie, 'Sinbad, The Sailor,' two kinds of birds were used. One was an Eagle, what was the other?" Price said a Roc and collected the bank.
Anton Busch, 75, a retired Bronx, New York, fireman, was being wheeled into the operating room for a cataract removal on his eye when his wife and
daughter Broke the Bank for $8,120.
Unable to work for twenty years, Mr. Busch had supported his wife on a monthly pension of $118. In the last three years Mr. Busch had undergone two abdominal operations and expected another eye operation in a few months. He had not paid the doctor for the previous operations. Mr. Busch had small hope of meeting his debts. While Mr. Busch pondered these gloomy thoughts at the hospital, Mrs. Busch's daughter insisted that her mother accompany her to the "Break The, Bank" program, in the hope that it would take their minds off their troubles. Much to their surprise they were selected (CONTINUED ON PACE 64>
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