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MOLOTOV: The world's most experienced diplomat; a tenacious, relentless negotiator. As an Old Bolshevik, he has considerable Kremlin prestige, but is not regarded as a contestant in the power stakes.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Chummy Commissar | 7/25/1955 | See Source »

Consoling Cadillac. To carry home the staggering jackpot from The $64,000 Question (Tues. 10 p.m., CBS), the contestant must correctly answer eleven questions spread over four weeks. The first week he can win $8,000. Then he has a week to decide whether he will risk it all for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Week in Review | 6/20/1955 | See Source »

At that point, the rules of the game changed: a contestant had to spell not only the word her opponent missed, but another one as well. Sandra's opponent, Jean Copeland of the Prescott (Ariz.) Junior High School, knocked off solecism and encomium, while Sandra got mnemonic. Then Sandra...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: No. 49 | 5/30/1955 | See Source »

A group of faculty and class committee members will choose about five of the best orations in each category for a final runoff contest. In this, each contestant must deliver his oration so that the judges can also consider his speaking ability.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Class Committee Announces Competition For Class Day Orations, Poems, and Odes | 5/12/1955 | See Source »

On the art of playing TV games, all panel members agree that the most important knack is to be able to listen. Explains Arlene Francis: "Newcomers on a panel are always too tense to listen well, and sometimes will ask questions that have already been answered." Also, she and her...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: How to Be a Panelist | 4/4/1955 | See Source »

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