Bob and Ray Tonight: Part 2 of "Spelling Bee" -- the annual Bob and Ray Grand National Spelling Bee Contest (plus Bulletin No. 4)

Bulletin No. 4 (see Bulletin No. 1, No. 2, and No. 3)

"We are ready to go round in our second, deciding go-round in our Grand National Semifinal Spelling Bee. Our contestants are still bickering among themselves about the unfortunate fact that two of them drew hard words and one of them drew an easy word in the first round."

-- Bob, in tonight's Part 2 of "Spelling Bee"

by Ken

Last night, in Part 1 of "Spelling Bee," we witnessed the thrill-packed and controversial first round of the finals of the annual Bob and Ray Grand National Spelling Bee Contest. Contestants Betsy Ross (representing the middle Atlantic states) and Benjamin Franklin (replacing the scheduled Russell Plume representing the Southern states) seemed to feel that, even though the contestants were picking their own words blindly from the "barrel of words," third contestant Paul G. Revere (representing the Western states) was receiving unfairly favored treatment, simply because they were receiving words like "paleolithic" and "interfenestration," while Paul Revere's word was "who."

That spitfire Betsy Ross went so far as to ask, "What kind of badger game is this?" As we left last night, we were going to commercial before returning for the second and final round.


FOR PART 2 OF "SPELLING BEE," CLICK HERE


THURBER TONIGHT (including WOODY ALLEN, ROBERT BENCHLEY, BOB AND RAY, WILL CUPPY, WOLCOTT GIBBS, RING LARDNER, S. J. PERELMAN, JEAN SHEPHERD, and E. B. WHITE TONIGHT): Check out the series to date

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