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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...
...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...
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...
...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...
...Diesel bee was buzzing in Germany, France, Belgium, England. Patent deals in Germany and Great Britain netted Rudolf Diesel royalties of 70,000 marks a year. In addition, a German company paid him a lump sum of 1,250,000 marks plus a block of stock. Diesel moved his family into a lavish apartment, then into a lavish house in Munich, began pouring his money into oil and real-estate speculations. Most of these turned out badly. Lawsuits popped. The inventor's health began to crack, but he labored on, propping his strength with bromides and antipyrin...