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Eighty-year-olds who are too shy and modest to suggest themselves tell us about octogenarian friends. We get between 1,500 and 2,000 letters every week and we interview all those who live in the New York area. We can use only six persons on a program, but we like to give our panel members a breather between shows. Oldest in point of service on the panel is Fred Stein, now nearing 82, and still active in renting and real estate. Mr. Stein's trademark is a fat cigar, a dry wit, and a determination unmoved by even the most devastating of Georgianna Carhart's jibes. Mrs. Carhart, of course, is our enfant terrible. She's 85, was a concert and opera singer in Europe, and had retired to what could never have been anything but a lively and vivid old age even had there been no TV show to perform on. I would say that Mrs. Carhart is distinguished by her gift for swift repartee, her frankness about her fondness for the opposite sex, and some of the prettiest hats on television. When she takes off her hat on the show, as she does occasionally, she puts it on again without consulting a mirror, a trick that only a good-looking woman, sure of herself, would attempt. "I never was a primper," she announces firmly, and you know she never needed to be. Miss Lorna Standish, a handsome 80, married three times but reverting to the "Miss" because, she says, "I'm still looking," was a dancer. She did a soft shoe dance for her audition and is still coaching children for professional work. She is proud of being an eighth lineal descendant of Miles Standish, jumps rope like a schoolgirl, and might be classified generally as one of the more serious members of the panel, along with Joseph Rosenthal, 86, and Paolo Gallico, 83, who is the father of well-known writer Paul Gallico. The Messrs. Rosenthal and Gallico are known for their wise and careful consideration of every subject. It was Mr. Rosenthal's daughter who was responsible for getting him on our show. Daughter had a 93-year-old neighbor who was one of our first panel members, and he suggested she have her father take an audition. Mr. Rosenthal was reluctant, "but you know when a woman gets an idea in her head you have to submit," he explains. He was a retired educator and writer, bored with sitting around with his contemporaries and discussing aches and pains. "This program has been a rejuvenation for me," he says happily. Mr. Rosenthal had to leave the show for a few months because his wife, considerably younger than he, likes to escape New York winters in Florida, but I believe he would really prefer to freeze a little and remain on the show. John Draney, who was 90 in December, is one of our most sensible, down to earth panelists, besides being one of our quickest ad libbers. Mr. Draney was a locomotive engineer, long retired from active duty, but still consulted by his former employers when new equipment and methods are considered. As a holdover from his railroad training, Mr. Draney has scrupulous regard for time, and if camera rehearsal is at 9:00 Mr. Draney reports at 8:00, on the theory that it's better to be an hour early than risk being five minutes late. One of our newer panelists is Hiram Mann, 80, who like Mrs. Carhart, defies any formal classification. Mr. Mann is a political speaker, a poet with a rare sense of humor, and a serious student of history. He believes that the Constitution of the United States is the greatest document ever written and will gather a group on any street corner to defend it from changes or misinterpretation by politicians. Guests on our show have to qualify, the same as panelists, for both age and outstanding interest. Some are noted for their physical prowess, as is 84year-old W. W. Hefflefinger, a recent guest who was once famous as Yale football's "Pudge" Hefflefinger of the first Ail-American team of 1889. Others have made their mark in business, literature, art, show business, teaching, music, or maybe home-making. Mrs. Mary Galloway, 105, had been a slave. At the hour she was due, we waited outside to help her from the car that was to bring her to the studio. I rushed over to get her, but she was too fast for me. The door opened and out hopped Mrs. Galloway. Disdaining outstretched hands, she took the steep stairway backstage without flinching, and went through her performance as if she had been doing it every night. Panel members and guests are completely natural on the show. They say exactly what they think, expressed in their own way. Because of the cameras, we have to plan where each will sit and in what order they'll be called on to speak, but there is no set script. fluestions brought up for discussion ". are sent in by viewers and are apt to cover a wide range. Young couples who want to make a success of marriage are frequent writers, with questions about whether it's wise to go on living with parents, should a wife continue her career, should a husband pay the bills, and so on. Middle-aged women ask if they should diet and run the risk of being nervous, cranky wives or stay stout and risk losing a husband's love. All these are duck soup for our panelists, who know many of the right answers and enjoy serving them up spiced with satire and some hilarity. When our program first started we were fearful that some member might suddenly become ill. There was an 82-year-old former minstrel man, acting as doorman at a nearby restaurant, whom we had tagged as an understudy for any ailing member who might drop out on short notice. I'm happy to say that never in three years has that happened. Our panelists appear to be a happy, healthy lot whose lives have taken on new meaning at 80. We like to think our program has contributed to that. I