20 (y)ears of corn (1952)

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Breaking an 18-year tradition, breakfast was served for the first time on Breakfast Club in April. It was a spur-of-the-moment decision prompted by a studio visitor’s insistence that she be served breakfast. Don invited her to return the next day when everyone in the audience was offered a breakfast of KIX and Swift’s bacon and eggs, prepared on a Philco Electric Range. Another studio guest sparked a hitch-hiking stunt. Mrs. Elmer Feagins of Texarkana told Don that her husband would walk to Chicago if McNeill interviewed her. Don did and Mr. Feagins did! As a surprise the family — five children, Mrs. Feagins and a daughter-in-law — was brought to Chicago to greet Elmer when he completed his trek. While Don was on vacation, Joe E. Brown and Peter Donald sat in for the toastmaster. Jell-O took over the first quarter hour in May, and Philco renewed both the TV Club and Breakfast Club contracts. "Meet the new TV Club mascot," says Don and his heckler, Sam Cowling, strikes the doggonedest pose. Six days and 820 miles later, Elmer arrived to pay off a bet he lost to his wife.