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Right from the start there were skeptics who insisted that some of the quiz programs must be fixed. But the vast majority of knob twisters were stubbornly faithful, watched in breathless suspense and genuine admiration as contestants exercised their incredible memories. Questions might be tailored by the producers to fit...
Waiting nervously in a studio anteroom one morning, a Dotto stand-by contestant had noticed a woman contestant, already a steady winner, stealthily studying a set of notes. When the woman left the room -and left her notes behind-the stand-by grabbed them. A quick reading told the tale...
Most of the women who work at contestant-collecting claim that the job requires only one real talent: the ability to recognize a phony. "But the one thing we always notice," says one Lawson rival, "is that people tend to change like Jekyll into Hyde the minute they win 25...
¶ Deejay Rege Cordic of Pittsburgh's pioneer station KDKA hit upon the "ancient" sport of brick throwing. The contest was moved to a wharf jutting into the Allegheny River after the first contestant threw his brick 67 ft. 2 in., "smack into a tentful of boy scouts." In...
From the underbrush of words that everyone knows but not everyone can spell (weird, harass), the 31st Annual National Spelling Bee had progressed to the dark, scary forest of such growths as distichous, objurgation, ephelis, abatis and coulisse, that few can spell and few, least of all the handful of...