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Information Please (Tues. 8:30 p.m., NBC-Blue). Critic Clifton Fadiman leads his corps of experts through radio's merry and most scholarly question-and-answer bee. The experts: Newspaper Columnist Franklin Pierce Adams, Sportswriter John Kieran, Novelist Alice Duer Miller...
...Listened to a pronunciation bee in which ten teachers took part and everybody flunked. Words flunked: dioceses, cantatrice, Nabuchodonosor, a fortiori, conchoidal...
...Alva Johnston gave up wrangling with high-school geometry, went to work for the Bee in his native Sacramento, Calif. Some 18 years later he won a Pulitzer Prize for his reporting of the sessions of the American Association for the Advancement of Science for the New York Times. After 16 years with the Times and four years with the New York Herald Tribune, he began a lucrative career as a freelance writer, achieved wide renown as a frequent author of the New Yorker's Profiles...
...lark is up to meet the sun, The bee is on the wing...
Last week, attired in a slithering backless blue satin evening gown, she sent the royal hosts and guests swinging with hot choruses of the latest U. S. numbers. Said the ''Bronx Bombshell" after her performance: "I was busy as a bee the whole evening looking at all the famous faces. This is an evening that I will remember all my life...