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...average for state universities, most give as their reason increasing infringement on their freedom. Best publicized example came last year, when the university barred the Rev. Alvin Kershaw from speaking at its Religious Emphasis Week (TIME, Feb. 27, 1956). The reason: Kershaw, who had won $32,000 on a quiz program as a jazz expert, had said he was going to give some of his winnings to the N.A.A.C.P. Professor Morton B. King Jr., for 20 years chairman of the sociology department, resigned in protest, charging that the university "was no longer able to defend the freedom of thought, inquiry...
...works herself up to a nervous, racehorse tension and bursts into anxious tears. During production she worries and glooms to the point of nausea. She throws tantrums on the set and off. Says a writer who knew Kim on the way up: "She's been like a quiz contestant who has won all the money before she's been asked any questions. Then, every time they ask a question, she's desperately afraid of losing everything." Kim puts it this way: "I was good in my first picture and got wonderful reviews. I was afraid I might...
...summer comes," cracked CBS's Garry Moore, "can Pantomime Quiz be far behind?" He was speaking of Mike Stokey's ten-year-old TV show, the undisputed dean of summer replacements, which early this month, as dependable as lightning bugs, made its annual return to network TV. As in last summer, Pantomime Quiz is replacing Ed Murrow's Person to Person (Fri. 10:30 p.m., CBS), and its frenetic actors will gambol and gyrate through the dog days until Murrow's return on Sept. 13. "In the winter," says Mike Stokey, "I hibernate...
...they tune in on Paco Malgesto, the Arthur Godfrey of Mexico rolled into one. He appears on two of the country's three TV networks for a grand total of 8½ hours a week, spieling and laughing through a mixture of variety shows, bullfight commentaries, interview and quiz programs, and assorted sports shows. Paco almost never rehearses, believes in doing or saying on-screen what comes naturally ("When I itch, I scratch"), somehow has parlayed a combination of glibness, amiability and sports knowledge into nationwide fame and fortune. (Paco reports his income as $60,000 a year, five...
...less curious lad might have let himself go to intellectual seed on a diet of comic books and TV westerns. But when seven-year-old Bruce Frankel of Interlaken, N.J. was kept home from school last fall with a kidney infection, he took to watching television quiz shows. One day he announced: "Presidents are my category." He began reading up on the men of the White House, with all the enthusiasm of a young Harry Truman...