Nearly a Lifetime Ago in Hudson

From 1950 to 1967, there was a game show on CBS called What's My Line? On the show, a panel of celebrities--the regulars were Dorothy Kilgallen, Arlene Francis, and Bennett Cerf--questioned contestants to try to guess their occupation, or line of work.

Yesterday, a reader clued me in to an episode of the show from 1952 in which one of the contestants was a man from Hudson. His name was Harold "Tiny" Heiden, and his occupation was "Frog Catcher." 

The panel was able to deduce that Tiny's occupation had something to do with frogs but not what he did with them. Because he stumped the panel, Tiny Heiden won the full prize: $50.

You can watch the entire episode here. Tiny Heiden is the first contestant. The segment featuring him begins at 2:15 and ends at 11:23.

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