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...Information Please veterans recovered their sprightly aplomb when the second show rolled around this week (Sun. 9 p.m., CBS). Adams and Kieran were back in pre-TV form, and Actor-Producer Gregory Ratoff as guest expert, a heavy hunk of a man with a rich, thick Russian accent, was the life of the show ("Theese ees my telewision debut, and all my friends are vatching, I shouldn't be dumb"). Sprinkling his comments with warm humor, he managed to answer a number of questions-mostly musical-that stumped his colleagues cold. For Information Please fans, it was beginning...
...that piece of wood?" exclaimed a shopgirl. "I wouldn't have it in my house." "You can say that again," agreed her chum. Next to one garish green and red abstraction labeled The Eye (price: $1,400) somebody hung a piece of rope with the tag, "Hunk of Rope...
...vacuum cleaner and ... a co-conspirator popularizes Venetian blinds, so there will be something else for the vacuum cleaner to do in a jiffy. A man turns out a simple little mechanism to make melon balls, and it's no longer comme il faut to toss a plain hunk of melon into a fruit salad ... In the period when beer came in kegs, the man of the house hauled it himself. Now that it comes in handy little cans, even a woman can lug a dozen from the delicatessen. The man who speeds by a woman, stopped...
Suspicion Confirmed. The boys played with their strange toy for a couple of months, until they burned a hole in Mrs. Epperson's clothes, too. She then took Donald and the hunk of metal to Albert Law, editor of the Dalhart Texan. Law, in the belief that it might be a meteorite, sent it to the University of New Mexico to have it analyzed by Astronomer Lincoln La Paz, and his research associate, Mineralogist Carl W. Beck. With a vanadium steel chisel and a four-pound jackhammer, La Paz succeeded in breaking off a piece the size...
Mystery Unsolved. Last week the hunk of uranium was in the hands of the Atomic Energy Commission. Where it came from and how it found its way to Dalhart were mysteries. But for Dalhart, the thrills were not yet over. The FBI, after poking around the town for days, found another piece of pure uranium weighing 64 Ibs. on a junk heap only three blocks from the scene of the first discovery. Estimates of the value of the 33-lb. chunk found by Don ranged from...