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...Question; of pneumonia following the removal of a cancerous lung; in Los Angeles. A journeyman actor when he took over Question in 1955, March stayed with the show for three years before quitting in favor of a Broadway career. He had no connection with the 1959 quiz scandals, and went on to success as the star of the 1961 comedy Come Blow Your Horn...
...Wallace started as a radio announcer and occasional newsman, and his credits include The Lone Ranger, Road of Life, Ma Perkins and Weekday (Margaret Truman was his co-host). On TV, he did PM East and Guess Again and was master of ceremonies on Big Surprise just before the quiz-show scandals broke. During that period he also played on Broadway in Harry Kurnitz's Reclining Figure (Critic Walter Kerr wrote that Mike performed with "ingratiating ease...
...imported a cook from Hupeh province whose spiced cabbage and chicken receives favorable mention on the diplomatic dinner circuit. Recent European guests (no Americans have been invited) reported that the atmosphere becomes somewhat stiff after dinner, when each visitor is seated individually with a Chinese and subjected to a quiz on such issues as Soviet intentions in Europe and his own government's policies...
...joke: I put on a quiz-show contestant grin and burble "Golly, Hugh, I've never won anything before. "But I can't seriously cope with the fact that I look like a raffle ticket. albeit a choice one, to my own government...
Founded eight years ago, the Norfolk quiz team has won nearly 75 per cent of its weekly contests with New England colleges...