Word: fischman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Kitty Fischman had her first baby she wired her old city editor on the Chicago Times: "Can you use a good newspaperman?" He wired back: "I sure can." Kitty has kept the lad working toward the job ever since...
This week, Harve Fischman turns 16. Last Sunday, standing 5 ft. 10 in. and weighing 170 Ibs., he was "graduated" from the program. Most graduates fall back into obscurity, now & then emerge with a fugitive piece in the Ex-QK Resumé, the Quiz Kids alumni bulletin. But not Harve. His pieces were already appearing in the Times; he had claimed his birthright...
Although the Kids (Richard Williams, 13; Harve Fischman, 12; Ruthie Duskin, 8; Joel Kupperman, 6) won in a walk, the victory was no great credit to them or to their sponsors. Most of the questions were pedantically dull, and neither side made a respectable showing. No one knew what an "isometric equatorial projection of a loxodromic curve" was, or seemed to care...
...HARVE FISCHMAN Quiz Kid, age 12 Chicago...
...think of no way in which the Mil Sci Department can control the situation. It is up to the men themselves to develop necessary self-respect, if the men under their command are to have respect for them. William J. Fischman...