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...work, which has been compared to Thackeray's by Clifton "Information Please" Fadiman of the New Yorker, Marquand said, "The awful thing in writing in to take yourself too seriously. I don't want ever to feel I'm a great writer I want to be only too conscious of my own defects. Nor do I yearn to write a 'monumental work...
Lauritz Melchior (Sun. 2 p. m. NBC-Blue). No. 1 Wagnerian tenor is guest soloist with Frank Black's orchestra on RCA's Magic Key program. Other guests: Critic Clifton Fadiman, Actress Helen Claire...
...large, weekly audience to NEC's five-month-old questionnaire program, Information Please. A number of powerful minds are let into the ring, are baited, stung, encouraged, wounded, sometimes left unscathed by a series of pointed questions. Matador of this intellectual bull session is sharp-witted Clifton Fadiman, book reviewer for The New Yorker. Permanent bulls have been Franklin Pierce ("F. P. A.") Adams and the New York Times'?, amazingly broadly informed Sportswriter John Kieran. Paul de Kruif, Stuart Chase, Marc Connelly, John Gunther, Alice Duer Miller have been among the weekly panel of guests. Matador Fadiman...
...Often there are completely irrelevant skirmishes. John Gunther knew at once that Riza Pahlevi was Shah of Iran. Fadiman: "Are you shah?" Gunther: "Sultanly." Another time, Fadiman asked what four prominent women have the first names Marina, Elzire, Hepzibah, Farida. Marcus Duffield (day news editor of the New York Herald Tribune): "The name Elzire is familiar. ... As a matter of fact, I used to play Indians with her.'' Fadiman: "Well, you must have had a lot of fun. Elzire is Mrs. Dionne...
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...