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...Maryland Academy of Sciences, was put together five months ago by Academy Director Dr. J. Wallace Page in collaboration with a WBAL continuity writer named Vera Johnson. Feature of Quiz the Scientist is its formidable permanent board, which includes such lights as Dr. Robert Williams Wood, famed prankster physicist of Johns Hopkins University (TIME, June 20, 1938), Dr. Louise Kelley, Professor of Chemistry at Goucher College, Dr. Reginald Van Trump Truitt, Professor of Zoology at University of Maryland, and Dr. Page. Last week WBAL was hopeful that inquiries from NBC would result in a network spot for the quiz...
University officials have finally lost their sense of humor with this, the prankster's eighth visit; and authoritative quarters indicated last night that when he is ultimately apprehended he will be shipped home bag and baggage...
...prankster left, he announced that he "liked the form of the course, but not the substance...
Talk In Aargau, Switzerland, a prankster placed a Swiss Army poster warning "Keep Quiet-Idle Talk May Betray the Nation" under the speakers' rostrum of the canton's Legislature. A motion to remove it failed by one vote...
Conductor since the start has been Hans Kindler, bouncing, blond Netherlander, no kindler of heat in his 80 players but a hilarious prankster, always good for a funny pose when the boys with the cameras come around. Last week the National Symphony announced that this season would be its last. Reason: union trouble...