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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...court, Kirkland's John Green has proved instrumental in his team's first place basketball showing. He leads the league in scoring with over 126 points. Behind him is Burton Berson of Dunster with 120 points scored, as of Wednesday's count. The only player in the top five league scorers who is not on one of the four leading teams is John Hurst of Lowell...
Holworthy appears as the most likely favorite in the current basketball race. Although losing its first two contests, the team captured the next ten straight, including a league-leading three in the new round. No one player stands out. The club is well-balanced and fast...
Minnesota's victories were not won in a stadium but on a radio show called College Quiz Bowl (Sat. 7:30 p.m., NBC), where four-player teams from competing schools try to beat each other to the punch in answering such questions as: 1) Who was the head of state that the Roundheads beheaded? 2) What 17th century philosopher can be associated with a whale? 3) In ancient Greece, who could call Xanthippus "Dad" and Zeno "Teacher"? 4) Nellie Bly was the "other woman" in a famous triangle-name the couple she broke...
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...
Actor Burton, the young British player who made his first big U.S. success in The Robe, does his best, which is never less than vivid, to sustain the early tone; and Moss Hart's script lends him a hand. Drama strides the scene: Is the son as mad as the father? Love (Maggie McNamara) walks in, to soothe his fevered brow. And just when the action has settled down to a nice homey drone of hysteria, almost as dull as Saturday night in Bedlam-bang! Brother John (John Derek) puts a bullet into Abraham Lincoln, and the public takes...