The nun in the clip looks pretty much like the sisters who tried, mostly in vain, to teach me in grade school (I was particularly bad at handwriting). Except this nun drills teeth. She's a dentist, which was offbeat enough for a nun to almost fool the panel. Only at the last minute did Bennett Cerf latch onto the right idea and identify the occupation.
There's some predictable anti-dentist humor, including a funny sequence where John Daly dances around a question about the sister's patients coming to her willingly. Everybody is excruciatingly polite, and even Dorothy Kilgallen and Arlene Francis stand to shake hands with the nun as she leaves. Whatever else you might say about that long-ago era, courtesy was more in vogue back then.
This January 31, 1960 episode isn't part of the current What's My Line Chrismastime run on GSN. But with the help of the invaluable WML episode guide, I tracked down the episode's other two segments: a pickle packer (honest) and mystery guest Nelson Eddy. Lots of complete What's My Line eps live on YouTube.
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