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...game-adapted from a 1953-55 radio show-pairs two colleges, each with four-student teams. Quizmaster Allen Ludden, 41, a sometime writer on teenage manners and morals (Plain Talk for Men Under 21, Plain Talk for Women Under 21), fires out a "tossup" question. The team that answers first and correctly wins ten points, plus a shot at a bonus question worth 20 to 40 points. Samples: Who was the German philosopher whose name rhymed with a doughnut-shaped roll? (Answer: Hegel, rhymes with bagel.) If a hostess invited the named sons of Adam and Eve and the wives...
White Light. The game generates considerable campus excitement and is played by a radio hookup between the competing schools and Quizmaster Allen Ludden in Manhattan. Ludden, a 37-year-old Phi Beta Kappa from Texas, first throws out a "tossup" question; as soon as a player thinks he knows the answer he signals his referee to push the team's buzzer, which instantly lights a bulb in the Manhattan studio (white for the champion team, red for the challenger) and automatically cuts off the impulse from the other team. If the answer is right, it earns ten points...
...Johnson '38; Thomas J. Judge '38; Frederick W. King ocC; James E. King, Jr. '36; William C. Knox, Jr. '38; Truman P. Kohman '38; Edward C. Lambert '38; Nathaniel A. Lemke '38; Melvin Levy '37; Jacob Lichman '37; David R. Kit '38; Walter R. Lucas, Jr. '37; Franklin M. Ludden '38, Edward T. James...
...Hall; Leonard Hammer; J. G. Harder; John Hay; Bernard Helfat; R. A. Herzberg; S. V. Kean; H. S. Kernan; Robert Kernan; D. B. Kitchel; E. B. Knowlton; Norman Lanz; J. N. Latorraca; Ralph Lawson; Maurice Lazarus; B. G. Leighton; G. S. Lewis; A. H. Litt; F. M. Ludden; Kenneth MacLeish; D. N. McKay; J. S. Munroe; J. D. Ogilby; E. H. Osgood; Alfonse Ossorio; H. R. Patch, Jr.; John Parcell; E. C. Reppun; E. F. Ringer; F. M. Rivinus; R. E. Rogers; H. P. Rosen; J. C. Rowley; Nicholas Satterlee; Peter Scott; R. L. Scott; H. P. Shaw...
Besides Kennedy, members of the Smoker committee include: Aden S. Blodgett, Sherman Brayton, Arthur T. Howard, Franklin M. Ludden, John Nesmith, Robert L. Pope, John S. Radway, Timothy J. Reardon, Jr., and Courtney C. Smith...