Word: contest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Walking Man? Lots of radio listeners thought that they knew, but nobody had even come close to guessing right-on the air. The point of the contest was to identify the mysterious man who walked past the mike each week, but said not a word...
Edwards, who thought up all the clues himself, couldn't understand why everybody missed "such easy hints." He explained: "The original contest was started as a satire, to end all giveaways." But the skyrocketing Hooperatings of Mrs. Hush (Clara Bow) and Miss Hush (Martha Graham) changed his thinking. After the Walking Man, he might try a "Walking Lady, a Baby Hush, or a Burping Baby." The only trouble is "those other quiz shows that glommed on to the idea." If the rivals don't stop, they may spoil the whole thing...
...Yale game, needless to say, is the climax of any athletic season in Cambridge, and tonight at 9:30 o'clock the basketball team will face in most important test. Scene of the action will be the Boston Arena, and if this evening's contest even comes close to matching the last two Harvard-Yale games in the St. Botolph Street ice palace, it may almost redeem a particularly frustrating season...
...Funsters were hot whom it counted as they overcame a 22 to 10 first quarter deficit to knot the score at 26-all at half-time and forge ahead in the third stanza. In the other scheduled contest, Eliot defeated Leverett, winding up on top of a 43 to 32 count...
Only two have thus far entered the unlimited lists, while a field of five, a including Hugh Smith, finalist in last year's contest, will take a creak a 165-pound honors...