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...musical background later stood him in good stead. In 1957, teamed with ten-year-old Star Eddie Hodges of The Music Man, he won $12,500 on a TV quiz show called Name That Tune. *President Kennedy was confused about this flight last week in praising Glenn. Said Kennedy: "Some years ago, as a Marine pilot, he raced the sun across this country?and lost." Glenn could not have raced the sun even if he had wanted to, since he flew from west to east...
...more than 3,500 colleges and high schools in the U.S. and Canada where TIME is used regularly as a supplementary text, students this month are answering this and 104 other questions in TIME's latest Current Affairs Test. This new quiz is a rewarding way to review the eventful period from last September until year's end. You may have a copy of the test booklet (and answer sheet) by sending 25? (or $1 for ten) to TIME 1962 Current Affairs Test, P.O. Box 1962. Radio City Station. New York...
Sarnoff's testimony was a ringing endorsement of the status quo. The quiz scandals, he said, "were unfortunate, but they are unlikely ever to happen again." The only practical alternative to the sponsor support system that now prevails, he told the commissioners, is outright government subsidy and government control-and that is what the commission had been claiming it did not want. "I do not believe regulation can remove the thorns without serious risk of nipping the roses...
...first items in the quiz was a Crivelli Pieta, and the trick was to tell what part was original and what part had been restored. Except for certain slick parts, most of the crackled surface seemed beyond reproach. It might even have fooled the Fogg, had the man who donated the painting not also given two photographs of it. one taken in 1907 and the other in 1909. The earlier photograph showed that before restoration about half of Christ's body had peeled...
...great television quiz-show scandal ended quietly last week. Pending for 15 months, the arraignments for the trial of ten erstwhile quiz masters were conducted in a Manhattan court. The great Hank Bloomgarden ($98,500) was there, and crop-haired Elfrida von Nardroff, whose $220,500 winnings were the highest of all. But every eye in court was on Charles Lincoln Van Doren, bearer of one of the great names in American letters...