Betty White and guest star Lew Ayres were both in the movie "Advise and Consent."
Mary Richards tells Doug she was born in April, 1939, Mary Tyler Moore was born on December 29, 1936.
In "Sue Ann Gets the Ax," which aired two weeks earlier, Sue Ann Nivens's The Happy Homemaker Show was canceled, and she was offered an unspecified job in the newsroom; however, by the time this episode aired, the events of that previous episode were apparently forgotten as Sue Ann is still the Happy Homemaker.