Word: quiz
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...clown named Zozo, who had a penchant?right up to the end, one necessarily gathers?for diving from immense heights into small containers of water." The seven children, too, have been professionals; they were all prodigies, and they all appeared, at one time or another, on a radio kiddy-quiz called, slyly enough, It's a Wise Child...
Unlike Zooey and the rest, Sonny was anything but a Quiz Kid. His grades at public schools in Manhattan's Upper West Side were mostly Bs, but arithmetic baffled him. His IQ test score was merely average at 104, and his deportment was sometimes poor. The tall, skinny boy had a better time of it at Camp Wigwam in Harrison, Me., where, at eleven, he played a fair game of tennis, made friends readily, and was voted "the most popular actor...
Author of the Alliance. Closest to being a top man in Latin American affairs these days is White House Aide Richard Goodwin, 29, who has just taken over control of Cuban operations from Nitze at Kennedy's orders. A former TV quiz-scandal investigator who proved a valuable campaign speechwriter for Kennedy last fall, Goodwin wrote Kennedy's highly successful speech introducing his hemispheric "Alliance for Progress." Later, Goodwin was sent to size up Brazil's U.S.-shy President Jánio Quadros shortly before the abortive Cuban venture. So sweeping is Goodwin's new authority...
...chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, and his audience was the National Association of Broadcasters' convention in Washington. Accustomed to a mild FCC that never interfered with programing, the TV owners and operators were more deeply shaken by Minow's blast than they had been by the quiz scandals or anything else in TV history...
...pillowcase sheaths with her little sister (now a housewife in Montrose, Calif.) and learned the Charleston. At the University of Washington, she majored in drama, minored in mononucleosis, got elected princess of this and that-later, it was to be "Queen of Better Drive-Ins"-and handed out quiz prizes for a local TV station. Two years ago, Dorothy began looking pretty for Warner Bros, at $500 a week. In her first TV series, The Alaskans, she played opposite a moose. There was no opportunity to Charleston, and the series died...