Word: kid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Unlike regular Quiz Kid shows, their first question-and-answer act with Benny was carefully rehearsed and gags for the program were supplied by Benny's writers. Rated the drollest Jell-O show this year, the program involved a question bee between the Kids and the Benny cast. Typical question addressed to the Kids: Name the five orders of fishes in order of their development, and give examples of each. Typical question addressed to the cast: If you had 20 apples and your mother took away ten and gave back five, how many would you have...
...Fort Worth, Tex., Cowboy Kid Fletcher walked off with the Stock Show's prize for best bow legs. His winning span (knee-to-knee...
...story is of Bigger Thomas (Canada Lee), a brooding, violent Negro whose father was killed in a Southern race riot, who lives with his mother, sister and kid brother in one room in the Chicago slums. With his pals he indulges in fantasies of machine-gunning white enemies. Through an unctuous social worker, Bigger gets a job as chauffeur to the wealthy landlord of the tenement he lives in. The landlord's handsome daughter (Anne Burr) is a neurotic, alcoholic Fellow Traveler who adopts an intimate manner toward Bigger...
...sneezed at. Neither is Defense Man Dit Clapper, sole remaining star of the Bruins' championship 1929 team, who has a better than even chance to end up the season with the league's Hart (most valuable player) trophy. Only native American on the team is Goalie Frank ("Kid Zero") Brimsek, of Eveleth, Minn., who as a rookie three seasons ago gave the Bruins six shutouts in his first seven games. With two games to go last week, Brimsek was just three goals behind Detroit's Johnny Mowers in the battle for this year's goalie honors...
...value isn't apparent until you know something about your black gold. Geology 3 gets you out in the open on nice spring and fall days, but don't let nature call until your senior year or you may find the competition too stiff. Don't let anyone kid you into wasting your time on Math 2, if you don't fancy the Calculus, before going in for seismic surveying in 9b. The course is good stuff for the lubrication addicts, but in the whole year you only get one problem that requires Math...