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What's My Line? comes in the standard half-hour size, equipped with a standard panel of four: Columnist Dorothy Kilgallen, Actress Arlene Francis, Funnyman Hal Block and a guest. By asking questions that can only be answered with a yes or no, the panelists try to discover the business occupations (which have already been flashed to the TV audience) of the lady wrestlers, tree surgeons, wig-makers, house detectives, sword swallowers, etc. who appear as challengers. Each "no" answer wins $5 for the challenger; if he can answer no ten times he gets credit for defeating the panel...
This does not happen very often, and when it does the panel seldom takes it lightly. Among the 5,000 letters received each week, a good number usually protest Miss Kilgallen's relentless onslaught (observed one TVman: "Dottie's butler gets very annoyed if she misses one"). Almost as many take issue with the puns Funnyman Block incorporates into his earnest questions. Others charge collusion, although Moderator Daly insists that there is only one signal he ever gives to the panel: when he pulls his right ear lobe it warns them, usually Block, that the questions are getting...
...press party given by the Manchester Chamber of Commerce, Hearst's Bob Considine did little better; he drew only frozen stares with a wisecrack about 10-cc syringes. Hard-bitten Reporter James Kilgallen also stopped a Manchester dowager cold with his definition of how to pronounce his name: "Kill gallon, madam. Like booze...
Princeton scientists do not contemplate a trip to the moon in the near future, contrary to a recent report by Columnist Dorothy Kilgallen in the New York Journal American...
Professor Daniel E. Sayre, chairman of the Department of Aeronautical Engineering at Princeton, quickly denied Miss Kilgallen's story which claimed that scientists had worked out the details on a rocket trip to the celestial body, Professor Albert Einstein had computed the necessary equations, and tests were planned for next summer...