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Pantomime Quiz is based on the old parlor game of charades, and particularly on its more sophisticated descendant, The Game, which became popular in the 1930s. While attending Los Angeles City College in 1939, Stokey and other students played The Game on experimental TV (call letters: W6XAO) from a tiny studio over a car dealer's garage. "There were probably more people in the studio than there were viewers," Stokey recalls, "but even then I felt it was undeniable TV material." After a stint as an NBC announcer and 3½ years' war service in the Air Force...
...Pocket Buzzer. Bell Telephone of Pennsylvania is testing a pocket buzzer to call people out of range of standard telephone bells to the phone. Operated by radio signal from the telephone company's office, the pocket buzzer emits a high-pitched hum whenever the subscriber is wanted, signaling him to head for the nearest phone. Service is being used by doctors, newspapermen, plumbers, salesmen and TV servicemen, in the Bethlehem-Allentown area. Cost: $10 a month for up to 80 calls, 5? extra for each additional call...
...trap in the Hanging and Flogging wing of a prison remarkably like Dublin's Mountjoy Prison. His "Quare Fellow," who never appears in the play, is one of two men waiting for the public hangman to come from Britain to execute them for murder. One, whom the prisoners call "Silver-top," had beaten his wife to death with a walking stick. The Quare Fellow had killed his brother and, using his skill as a butcher, drained the brother's blood into a crock. Silvertop is reprieved (and thereupon tries to hang himself in his cell), but the Quare...
...earth was shaped like a saucer and the sky ''a solid dome." Wallace concedes that Voliva's own dome was probably far from solid, but he argues that Voliva stood for ''the human freedom to be different." i.e., to be what U.S. tradition calls "individualistic" or nonconformist, what orthodoxy dubs heretical, what psychiatry calls neurotic, what some men in the street call plain cracked. Author Wallace agrees with Mill that "eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character has abounded," and then with tender gaiety proceeds to profile a handful of the most...
Pinch Hitter. In Fredericksburg, Va. Bakery Operator Edwin Young, annoyed at the damage done to rolls and loaves by customers testing their freshness, posted a sign: "The merchandise on this table is always fresh. If you must squeeze something, please call the manager...