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...ANNOUNCER: Because of this special See It Now report on The Farm Problem, the Johnny Carson Show, sponsored by the makers of JellO, and the Quiz Kids, sponsored by the makers of Anacin, usually presented over many of these stations, will not be seen tonight...
...Other quiz-show producers have decided that money isn't everything, and are putting their chips down on funnymen whose questions to contestants are incidental to their jokes. Groucho Marx has a commanding lead in this division. His closest rivals are the venerable What's My Line?, I've Got a Secret (offering three comics: Garry Moore, Bill Cullen, Henry Morgan), and Two for the Money, which depends on the synthetic Hoosierisms of Herb Shriner...
...week's end, CBS - which already has twice as many quiz shows as any other network - gave further evidence of its faith in the potency of unrelated bits of knowledge by announcing the revival of still another Louis Cowan show, Quiz Kids, with a new set of child prodigies under the fatherly wing of Clifton Fadiman, 51, who learned his trade on such question-&-answer shows as Information, Please and This Is Show Business...
From CBS's point of view, Kingsley's attitude toward current television is not revolutionary. He likes to watch fights, Jackie Gleason and Ed Sullivan-which, happily, are all on CBS. He is impressed by the dramatic shows, and feels that quiz programs are only doing "what has been done since time immemorial: rewarding people for their knowledge." Because of TV's enormous potential for both good and evil, Kingsley thinks that it would be almost criminal for any major artist to ignore it: "The influence of TV can shape an election; thus it can shape...
...Quiz Kid. In Burnaby, B.C., charged with intent to commit a crime after he was caught sitting in his car in front of a bank with the plates covered and the motor running, John A. Martin, 50, explained to police: he wore dark glasses because he suffered from snow blindness, wore a handkerchief-mask to protect his throat, had a loaded .22 rifle in the car because he had been robbed of $300 three weeks before...