:02:00
Prescott lists four seaports...
:02:02
... which have had great
strategic importance in this war:
:02:05
Dakar, Narvik, Derna and Singapore.
:02:09
Were any of these ever under
the American flag?
:02:11
Derna, in 1803.
:02:13
- The war with Barbary pirates.
- Right. Most of us...
:02:16
Can you figure a dame that knew
what was going on in Libya in 1803?
:02:19
Fadiman says she's number-two dame,
next to Mrs. Roosevelt.
:02:22
So they're giving them numbers now,
like public enemies.
:02:27
Well, Mrs. Prescott does not receive
$ 25 and a set of the Britannica.
:02:30
The next question comes from
Mr. C.A. Copeland of Glenport, Florida.
:02:35
What is the most frequently run
distance in American sports?
:02:38
- Hundred yards.
- No, no. It's a mile, counting horses.
:02:43
I'll try our guest expert first.
Miss Harding.
:02:46
Ninety feet, sister.
:02:48
I really don 't know anything
about American sports.
:02:51
Mr. Kieran?
:02:52
- Ninety feet.
- Care to explain?
:02:54
The distance between
home plate and first base.
:02:56
Yes, or between any of the bases
in the game of baseball.
:03:00
Thousands of men and boys
run it every day.
:03:02
Really? Seems like
a frightful waste of energy.
:03:05
There's an awful lot of energy
wasted in the world these days.
:03:08
That's telling her, John.
:03:10
- Isn 't anything more wasteful
than war.
:03:12
However, all the more reason
people ought to give it their full attention.
:03:16
What would you suggest,
Miss Harding?
:03:18
Abolish baseball for the duration
of the emergency?
:03:21
I think that's a very good idea.
:03:24
- Have I said something wrong?
- Just a minute...
:03:26
- Things they let them get away with.
- Maybe she was kidding.
:03:30
She knew what she was saying.
Know what that does?
:03:32
Take it easy, Sam.
Don't blow your top.
:03:35
We're concerned with a threat to
what we call our American way of life.
:03:38
Baseball and what it represents
is part of that way of life.
:03:42
What's the sense of abolishing
what you're trying to protect?
:03:45
That's a beautiful thought, Sammy.
:03:47
- You ought to write a poem about it.
- I'll do better than that.
:03:55
"...and she might remember what the
Duke of Wellington said about sports.
:03:58
The duke was the baby
who whipped Napoleon at Waterloo...