Bobby Darin had recently release his 13th album 'Oh! Look at Me Now' (October 1962), which reached number 100 on the Billboard 200.
Pauline Letendre, the first contestant, worked for 'McAllister Towing of Canada' (Montreal) as cook aboard the 84ft (26 m) tugboat 'Felicia', built in 1923. In the early 1990s, the vessel was decommissioned and taken to St-Joseph-de-la-Rive, Quebec, where she was beached and became a part of the 'Musée Maritime de Charlevoix'.