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...book, The Professor and I (Appleton-Century-Crofts; $3.95), Dorothy Van Doren reveals that her husband is an addict "not of the super, the egghead, type of program . . . but of mysteries, westerns, crime stories, true stories and a quiz or two. He is lost. I get myself comfortable on the living-room sofa by the fire with a book, and presently I hear the beginning of the idiot commercial and know it has started again. Sometimes I watch too; sometimes I stick to the book. But the professor is faithful-all too often he is faithful. One evening there...
...that the big quiz shows have been found wanting and the big quizmasters have found subpoena servers waiting, neither the clerk with the photographic memory nor the student with the encyclopedic mind has much of a chance to turn a fast TV dollar. Almost the only quizzes left are the small-payoff contests that the trade calls "peanut" shows. But this week, after four months on the air, Air Force Lieut. James Astrue will have proved that, given time, tenacity, and a modest amount of information, a man can still amass an astonishing amount of peanuts...
Indeed, the scheduling of the Brattle and Exeter is just right for the man who desires a full evening of Escape. Leaving your quiz at 5:15 in Memorial Hall, you can just make it to the Brattle in time for the first show. Since the Brattle lets out at 7:30 you should have time for a bite to eat before leaving for the Exeter, arriving there at 9:00 and missing the short subjects, which definitely should be missed. Maigret ends at 11:00, and with luck on the traffic lights you can be back in Cambridge...
...began in Rome, on a broadcasting station's quiz show, where one of the questions was: "Can penguins live at the North Pole?" KLM had just inaugurated its polar service from Amsterdam to Tokyo, so we took two penguins to the Arctic to find out. It was not easy to arrange their accommodations...
File 7 (ABC, 11:30-12 noon). A quiz show with not one penny at stake; Johns Hopkins Assistant Professor Dr. Eliezer Naddor, an expert in the occult occupation of solving puzzles, will run four university students through some seemingly impossible riddles, then explain where and how they goofed...