Both regular female panelists, Arlene Francis and Dorothy Kilgallen, were in Monaco to attend the wedding of Grace Kelly, so Celeste Holm and Elsa Maxwell filled in for them.
Designer Micol Fontana signed in with the single name "Fontana". There was no horizontal bar on the initial letter F, and the stylized n's resembled u's; the resulting name appeared to read as "Toutauo".
Contestant Wilfred L. Denno (identified by John Daly as Wilfred Denno) signed in with an X. At the time of his appearance he was the warden of Sing Sing prison in Ossining, New York.