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...they just are superior. Father Les ("Less") is a midget personage when compared with any of his offspring. Mother Bessie is a slightly comic sergeant major to her own young, all of whom have spiritual commissions. In the magic Glass family, the kids, like the stars of a radio quiz show, have taken over even as breadwinners...
...Jewish manhood. He was in Israel for his bar mitzvah, and his proud papa, New York Senator Jacob Javits, 58, made sure that it was a memorable event. First young Joshua was whisked to a Negev Desert kibbutz to meet Premier David Ben-Gurion, who administered an impromptu Biblical quiz. Next it was a session with Israeli President Itzhak Ben-Zvi, who nodded approvingly as Joshua recited from the Torah. On the big day, in Jerusalem's cavernous Yeshurun synagogue, Joshua marked his confirmation by intoning in near flawless Hebrew Verses 40 through 50, Chapter VII of First Kings...
...Completed arrangements for an unprecedented hour-long television review of his two years in office, during which reporters from three networks would quiz him about his life and achievements in the White House...
Space was just getting boffo. TV at the time was reeking with quiz scandals, and Wolper decided that the respectable public-affairs bit held the treasuries of the future. He made his celebrated Race for Space, but the networks refused to show it, saying that they would never broadcast a public-affairs show over which they had not had total production control. So Wolper sold the program to 110 stations around the country, gaining as much exposure as he could have gotten on any network, plus major stories in the papers about the wretched treatment he was getting from...
...Haven't seen baked bananas lately." As chairman, chief stockholder, and tastemaker, Stouffer is on the road at least one-third of the time to keep up the standards. He likes to drop into his restaurants unannounced, order a meal as if he were just another customer, then quiz managers on such details as the amount of chicken broth that goes into Stouffer's official vichyssoise. Says Stouffer: "You can't delegate quality control...