'Henry Morgan has owed me $2.00 for 26 years' (I've Got a Secret 12/18/57)

We're going to start in this first place blindfolded, this will be the first and last time tonight, so if everyone puts their blindfolds on, I'd like to see Fae put theirs on. Oh, that's why. She doesn't have to go over it, okay? get my pair, everyone blindfold themselves and I'll get our first contestant in, please saddle up. I'm not going to tell you this gentleman's name, we'll call him mr. X because if you knew his name you would probably know his

secret

so mr. X, if you whisper your

secret

to me, the people at home are eager to discover the right panel to help classify mr. excellent secret related to something that happened to him and Jane, you've been on this first, you've been away for so long.

I'll start with you, well, Gary, I haven't been away long enough that I don't remember laughing about a secret that sounds really sneaky. Is it a sneaky secret? Would we know? Mr. down payment about $60 to go let me go to Henry Morgan please well obviously this is something that happened to you some time ago yes it was something someone did to you yes would you be interested in knowing the name of the person who did I do it to you? Yeah, was it someone in show business? Yes, it was that someone in the cinema was, but movies are not the main activity of this person in show business.

It was with someone at the theater. Yes, also someone who occasionally appears in the theater. but again it's not your main livelihood $40 down payment and $40 trip let's go to something with Mr. ? Yes, if you remember our panelist, yes, is he a man or a woman? We'll split that question in half. Well, that's a very decent woman, she would know. Morgan will be missing, yes, everyone except the gentleman. Morgan can take off the blindfold because only this De Morgan can know Harris. All we can do, you can pick up yours with a $60 down payment and $20 takeout, and we'll bill you.

Cullen, please, Gary, the one you were talking about in the Broadway movies. and you said he has been and it always hurts me because I'm the only one here who's never been in a movie on Broadway. I haven't been yet. That might be good, this is probably not it. Did it happen to you sir? Did Henry Morgan do anything to you physically? Why was he physical in nature but not in the sense that he did something physical to this gentleman? Did he do this that he happened to you sir? Did his perspective on life change? Well, after it was done, yeah, because Henry's perpetrators are definitely the perpetrators, okay, we're going to keep you blindfolded, we've lost $80 and now we're going to do this and see what we can find out in the panel, Henry Morgan has aged this man. that $2.00 for 26

years

Oh lord you have mr.

Morgan ever made any effort to pay back two dollars in the last 26

years

, nothing at all. Do you think mr. Morgan is basically an honest man, yes, oh Henry, have you felt guilty for the last 26 years for owing someone $2.00? No, I guess the charitable way of looking at it is that he was so long ago and such a small amount of money that Henry naturally forgot about him, so that must be the explanation, don't you think Henry just forgot? Yeah, that's nothing. I wish, sir, I could agree with you, friends, ladies and gentlemen. I will now prove beyond a doubt that Henry Morgan never forgot this $2 debt and that there has been a feeling of guilt for the past 26 years in the dark recesses of his subconscious mind.

Valis Morgan you claim that you have not felt guilty nor do you have any conscious memory of owing this poor man $2 that is true what about the subconscious mind? Can I ask you man? I ask you now if a person secretly felt guilty for something he had done to another person, isn't it possible that the subconscious mind could remember that other person's name afterwards? 20 or 30 years it is possible it is possible very well then it is possible that that name hidden for so many years in the subconscious could reappear unexpectedly let's say through a slip, for example it is possible oh well that name could appear in a dream possibly or in a doodle Henry Morgan Two weeks ago on this show, the night of December 4, we sh

owed

off some doodles made by the panelists, remember?

Yes, you can now take off the blindfold and look at Exhibit A now. We sh

owed

this doodle at night, could you testify that it is yours? Yes, well, now examine it closely. Notice that it has several horizontal lines, several vertical lines, and upon closer inspection we see that there is something written in the center. There is a word the name summit Emerson as an impartial witness, would you read that name? I see him there like Norman Norman Henry on the night of December 4th. I asked you who this mysterious Norman was and I asked you if you didn't deny it before the entire American public who never met anyone with that name, didn't you testify sir?

Well, yes, well, he said yes. Now we come to Exhibit B. I ask that you listen carefully because Exhibit B is an actual recording of this program made on the night of December 4th. When I asked about this name, I listened carefully as our engineer played Exhibit B, but right in the middle is the word Norman. Now there was no one on the show named Norman, we don't have anyone on our staff. The name is Norman Norman, our time. Gary, there are things going through my head that I still don't understand. I don't know a Norman, I don't know, but you know and now we must face the final moments of truth.

All that remains is to search. deep into your past and to find the man whose name has made you feel so ashamed and so guilty that for more than a quarter of a century you have had a medal talking about this man, now I will ask you one more question and then rest you, my case , wiretapping is illegal. I asked this last question, sir. X What is your name my name is Norman This Henry is normal to leave the taxi together so is what happened to your hair what happened? I didn't go to Massachusetts, fine. I traveled to a bus when I was at Lauren's camp, he was your Bunk at Nathan's camp for five years, from 1927 to 1931, and Henry.

Sorry, I was a little brutal, but it's never easy, friends, living in seven failures. We know exactly what has been bothering mr. Morgan all these years and for the first time in 25 years Henry you are free free or frozen it's all over except the $2 does the jury agree that mr. Morgan should pay people if he goes deeper and he goes further than this mr. Morgan, I'm sorry to delay you, Toby, we must continue, Mr. Quitman, yes to this personal question, are you a rich man today? No, perhaps it is not possible that you would have been a rich man if Henry had paid me the 2 dollars in 1932.

Now you would be a rich man today, Heather, you may think that is absurd. statement, but we called the largest brokerage firm in the world, Merrill Lynch, Pierce Fenner and Beam, and we have their real statistics, the real numbers that show what could have been. Excuse me while I get Exhibit C, these figures are not much help here if In 1932, we will see that Henry, with an ounce of honor, paid Norman the two dollars. In 1932, Norman bought Siegel, incorporating three shares at 62 and a half cents for a chair as a young entrepreneur. In 1936 he sold his Fiegel incorporated with the profits. in 1937 he buys Bendix Aviation with the money he got from there, he buys the city acreage for 715 shares of safe deposit and in 1951 he told these city services that if he had had the money he would have taken the profits and bought US cash in 3745 shares. and in 1953 Norman tells his American taxi who said I didn't, with the profits he buys 4,539 shares of US steel and in 1955 he sells his American sentiment with a security position from his Polaroid corporation one hundred and twenty-five thousand and seventy-four. shares then Henry it is no longer a matter of two dollars now you owe this man 847 thousand two hundred nine dollars Gary not necessarily soul because according to you I had the $2 and look what happened to me that is what I can ask you Norman had If you had Would you have invested the $2?

As we have demonstrated exactly that way. Well, Henry, all I can do is take care of you for the rest of my life. I have a check here, this is the largest check ever shown on television, made out to mr. Norman Quince in the sum of five million, eight hundred and forty-seven thousand, one hundred and nine dollars and fifty cents Jerry, could you sign it? No, let's do this properly. I was wrong about the first two dollars. Norman tries another two dollars and I hope that in the future you won't fall into the hands of Sharpies again.