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...What," asked Kieran, "is the mean approximate distance from the earth to the moon?" (Answer: 239,000 miles.) "Who served the shortest term in the Presidency?" (Answer: William Henry Harrison.) After twelve such questions the guests, who had been served dry sack, Riesling, Burgundy, champagne, brandy and liqueurs, laid down their pencils with a collective sigh. Forty schoolteachers took over the job of correcting papers...
When the dishes were cleared, waiters distributed paper & pencils at every table. John Kieran of Information, Please appeared on the platform like an evil genie. The startled guests found themselves fumbling agonizingly through the richest-and probably the hardest-quiz program ever held...
...Missing Guest. Just before midnight Kieran rose to announce that two men had tied with marks of 85. There would be another quiz to determine the winner. One nervous man-black-haired Lester B. Stone, onetime executive secretary to Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia-showed up on the stage. The second contender-plump, wealthy William Rogers Coe, banker and vice president of the Virginian Railway Co.-had given the whole thing up, was found across the street visiting some pals at LaRue's Restaurant...
Beatrice Lillie, before flying back tc Britain after a season on Broadway, told Manhattan reporters that Information, Please experts would hop to Europe this week and that she would guestpert for them in Paris about July 1. Clifton Fadiman, F.P.A. and John Kieran were surprised to learn where they were going...
...influential, controversial Drew Pearson announced that on Dec. 12 he would write his last column for Roy Howard's United Feature Syndicate. On Dec. 13 (his 47th birthday), Pearson planned to go to work for independent Bell Syndicate, whose stable of writers includes Emily Post, Dorothy Dix, John Kieran. Happy as a grig over the shift, Pearson said that Bell is giving him a flat guarantee of $20,000 a year more than he now earns. (In his twelve years with United Feature, Pearson- and his former partner, Bob Allen, now a colonel in the Army Intelligence on General...