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Erstwhile Harvard undergraduate Lenny Ross may have turned his $100,000 "Big Surprise" into "The Big Mistake" yesterday. When John A. Kaye, president of Stanwood Oil, offered ten year-old Ross a $2500-a-year scholarship to the Wharton School of Finance, the quiz kid, he turned it down, explaining that he wanted to go to Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: $100,000 Quiz Winner Wants to Come Here | 5/22/1956 | See Source »

Girl Gambler. On Robert Montgomery Presents, Actor John Newland made the mistake of marrying two women at the same time and ended in the electric chair. On Playwrights '56, Actor Larry Blyden won $74.000 on a quiz show and then spent an exhausting 60 minutes learning that it would not buy happiness. On the U.S. Steel Hour, Singer Ethel Merman was tearily dramatic as a girl who could not stop gambling-particularly with her fiance's money. Vaughn Taylor played her sad-sack lover and, at the play's end, viewers may have felt that his troubles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Week in Review | 5/21/1956 | See Source »

...seven, when his father, a certified public accountant, roused his interest in the market. Once Lenny had acquired some learning, it was plain that the way to make a killing without risking the capital he didn't have was to become a contestant on a television quiz show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Winners | 4/30/1956 | See Source »

...next week, under the show's rules, he was rescued and given another try. Last week, with no option, under the rules, but to try again, Lenny correctly answered an intricate, five-part question that required 13 answers, and became the fourth winner of the biggest quiz-show jackpot of them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Winners | 4/30/1956 | See Source »

...Best Quiz Show: The $64,000 Question...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Emmy Winners | 3/26/1956 | See Source »

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