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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Unlike regular Quiz Kid shows, their first question-and-answer act with Benny was carefully rehearsed and gags for the program were supplied by Benny's writers. Rated the drollest Jell-O show this year, the program involved a question bee between the Kids and the Benny cast. Typical question addressed to the Kids: Name the five orders of fishes in order of their development, and give examples of each. Typical question addressed to the cast: If you had 20 apples and your mother took away ten and gave back five, how many would you have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Benny & Masterminds | 4/21/1941 | See Source »

...writes as such. His social prerogatives as a gentleman and scholar are great. In much of his verse he is not above writing like a dandy in a Conning Tower. At his plenary best -in Mother Liquor and Yellow Chartreuse, for instance-he can speak of life as a bee might speak of its hive. He can also give masterly expression to his generally impeccable distastes, as in his Lines on Anyone's Lines along Certain Lines: Is this the shape Of the sour grape? Perhaps the most uncommonly good poems in And What's More...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Poetry, Apr. 21, 1941 | 4/21/1941 | See Source »

...star who really strutted her antique stuff was Mae Murray. Her platinum blondness and pouting "bee-stung" lips first got rave notices in the Ziegfeld Follies of 1908. One of the wildest waltzes in cinema history was her fling with John Gilbert in The Merry Widow in 1925. Since then she has fluctuated between a fortune of $3,000,000 and, she claims, nights on a park bench...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Merry Murray | 3/31/1941 | See Source »

Suppose a farmer is stung by a bee. He suffers only a temporary, curseworthy discomfort, forgets it. His blood cells manufacture antibodies against the bee venom. But instead of being turned loose, as they normally should, they may remain attached. The victim is then sensitized instead of protected from bee sting. Six months later he may be stung again. He faints, dies. This is allergic shock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Strange Malady | 1/20/1941 | See Source »

...Douglases live in an apartment over the Busy Bee Beauty shop, in Manhattan. On weekends, keeping an eye out for possible customers, they began puttering around the creek. One day they had a nasty shock. Annsville Creek, starts in a sand and gravel pit, flows under a railroad bridge and into the Hudson River. The Douglases discovered that Dottle's cabin was too high to get under the bridge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: Tale of a Tub | 1/6/1941 | See Source »

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