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...Bible Quiz. That was two years ago. Since then, Sant'Angelo in Villa has known little peace. Three parish priests came and went, and half the villagers boycotted the church. One day a young (33), eloquent Baptist minister came to the village, was challenged by a priest (and locally famed Bible expert) to a Bible quiz in Latin and Greek. After four hours and 45 minutes, the Baptist came out the popular victor. Encouraged by his success, Pastor Graziano Cannito began to hold services in a private house, soon chalked up 70 Sant'Angelo conversions. In nearby towns...
Born. To Charles Van Doren, 32, Columbia University English instructor, first Croesus (TIME, Feb. 11, 1957) of TV's gilt quiz show Twenty One, and Geraldine Ann Bernstein Van Doren, 24: their first child, a daughter; in Manhattan. Name: Elizabeth. Weight...
...Quiz and audience participation...
Suddenly whisked into a TV quiz show and asked to name the most crime-ridden big city in the U.S., almost any movie-going U.S. citizen might say Chicago-except that cautious heads, thinking this answer too obvious, might take a chance on New York City...
Charles S. Dubin, 39, highly paid director of NBC-TV's Twenty-One quiz show and a summer replacement, The Investigator, denied current membership in the Communist Party, but refused to say whether he was a member before May 8, the day the committee first questioned him in a closed-door session. NBC promptly dumped Director Dubin as "unacceptable...