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Much-storied Yale football star Brian Dowling and hitherto unheralded Harvard ace Frank Champi matched vocal cunning on Saturday's quiz show, Dating Game, and both lost out to some hotshot from the West Coast with a moustache...
...Republic are crumbling, scholars at this University have a double obligation--to themselves and their fellow citizens of all races and creeds--to pursue their studies diligently. It is therefore to be regretted that an otherwise worthy publication recently saw fit to sponsor a so-called "Television Trivia Quiz" whose only purpose was to seduce these students from their rightful duties into the paths of sloth represented by Channel Four and the like...
...Quiz Show Types...
When TIME was already a fairly important magazine, Luce did not consider it beneath his dignity to appear at a businessmen's lunch and stage a quiz game to demonstrate the importance of accurate information. Later he was to write that the "invention" involved in TIME lay not in its brevity or in its principle of organizing the news but in its emphasis on the "instructive role of journalism." Still later, in early 1939, when he was displeased with the magazine, he complained: "Somehow it does not give the feel of being desperately, whimsically, absurdly, cockeyedly, whole-souledly determined...
...Kappa editor of the Law Review at New York Uni versity, then a successful specialist in corporate and labor law. On the side, he helped organize Little League baseball in the New York area. In 1953, ABC asked him to form a panel of Little Leaguers for a radio quiz show on sports. Two years later, he gave up his legal work to try a few test shots of his own on ten weekend sports reports. Today, with 31 scheduled broadcasts each week on radio and TV, he earns $175,000 a year...