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...French," explains the Crazy Horse's Scottish dance director, "are cerebral. They have to have something to think about." Some of the thinking variations now going on in Paris : a drunken bride takes off her clothing in desultory fashion as she awaits her new husband; a strip-quiz in which each correct answer gives the audience participant a right to take off one garment from the girl in the spotlight. One nightclub promised a strip to the accompaniment of suitable verses from Baudelaire, an other to the music of Thais...
BEFORE MIDNIGHT, by Rex Stouf (184 pp.; Viking; $2.75), plunges Nero Wolfe, with his creator's usual sharp eye for the headlines, into the hypertense world of Manhattan advertising agencies and a $1,000,000 quiz contest sponsored by a perfume manufacturer. The murderer shows the bad taste and worse judgment to strike in Wolfe's own home. Not really baffling as a whodunit, but Archie Goodwin, Wolfe's legman, is reliably agreeable company as the yarn-spinner...
...progressive sawdust, but her personality seems to have been forged at U.S. Steel. Her idea of mixing fun and politics is to give an Arab boy enough money to go out and buy himself a revolver. The boy in question is named Amar-cousin to Kipling's wily quiz kid, Kim. He makes a good deal of The Spider's House into a kind of child's garden of Allah...
...those who know him best he is a hagridden worrier with an "almost masochistic capacity for self-criticism." So says Lyle M. Spencer, himself a president (of Science Research Associates) and personnel expert, in a report in the current Harvard Business Review on the results of a three-year quiz of the more than 950 members of the Young Presidents Club...
...thrives on challenge. He is ready to fight fire with fire if this becomes the year of the big-money quiz shows. Says he: "The nice thing about my program is that it has room for everything. If what people want are giveaways, then we'll add giveaways...