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...dentist blandly fails to catch on, that takes place in an Amsterdam hotel room on and around twin brass beds, and the triangle is augmented by a Dutch dental supply manufacturer and a bellhop translator. What follows is a kind of bilingual What's My Line? panel quiz that all by itself makes the evening worth its comic weight in inflated Broadway pennies...
Last week the 1961 edition of the Vacation Review Quiz went in the mails to the students enrolled in the TIME education program. A supplement to the annual Current Affairs Test, the 50-question quiz was created as an entertaining way for college and high school students to review the news as the fall term begins. (You may have a copy and an answer sheet by writing to Vacation Review Quiz, Box 1961. New York 46, N.Y. Handling charge: io? a copy...
...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...