Word: panels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...known as "Twenty Questions"-for years; it had been a favorite of Fred's since he played it as a boy in Indiana. Mutual gave it a try, with the Van Deventers (minus Nancy, who had to go back to school) as the backbone of the experts' panel. In less than five months, the show was the new gee-whiz quiz in radio. Last week, Twenty Questions (Mutual, Sat., 8 p.m., E.D.S.T.) got its usual 10,000 to 12,000 fan letters and a nationwide sponsor (Ronson lighters...
Twenty Questions (Sat. 8 p.m., Mutual). The old parlor game with a four-party panel trying to guess tough subjects...
First he listed the questions most generally asked: Is there a defense? Should we keep the secret? Should we destroy all our bombs? Is it as deadly as we have been led to believe? What about Russia? CBS station managers throughout the U.S. suggested candidates for his panel. Shayon traveled some 10,000 miles to interview them. By letting them speak in their own way, Shayon produced more eloquence than a Corwin drama. Every mispronounced word and stumbling inflection underlined the program's honesty...
...with Albert Einstein, Henry Wallace, Harold E. Stassen, Congressman Jerry Voorhis, Senator Brien McMahon, Harold Ickes, Archibald MacLeish, and Joseph E. Davies, onetime U.S. Ambassador to the U.S.S.R. Citizen Dzingle sounded every inch a toolmaker; Einstein plowed shyly and awkwardly through his lines. Only one of the 21-man panel was unconcerned. Said 85-year-old Samuel Gould: "I've seen every thing there is to see. ... If an atomic bomb were to fall right now and WHOOSH - wipe out the whole world, it would leave me completely indifferent...
...five man panel representing different segments of the Faculty and the student body sought approval of their accomplishments and support for their hopes from the graduates who packed the main dining room of the Harvard Club of Boston Tuesday morning at the first general session of the Associated Harvard Clubs...