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Pantomime Quiz (Fri. 8 p.m., CBS). With Jackie Coogan, Dorothy Hart, Peter Donald...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADIO: Program Preview, Jul. 5, 1954 | 7/5/1954 | See Source »

Droodles (Mon. 8 p.m.. NBC). A new comedy quiz with Chalk-Talker Roger Price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADIO: Program Preview, Jun. 28, 1954 | 6/28/1954 | See Source »

...triumphant three-way partnership: wife, husband, company"). Others use such incentives as bonus vacation trips for entire families, in hopes that wives will keep their husbands working their darndest to win them. Last week the Clary Multiplier Corp., of San Gabriel, Calif., announced a new gimmick: a telephone-quiz contest for the salesmen's wives on how their husbands are doing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SELLING: Give the Lady a Toaster | 6/14/1954 | See Source »

Clary Multiplier, a latecomer (1946) in the hotly competitive adding-machine business, found that its sales ($12,302,975 last year) were slipping. The company started a paid-vacation contest for division managers, then threw in the quiz to "spice up the program." The names of salesmen's wives who wish to enter the contest are written on cards, and each week four cards are drawn from a hopper. President Hugh Clary, or some other executive, then phones the wife and asks her how much business her husband has brought in so far that month. If she knows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SELLING: Give the Lady a Toaster | 6/14/1954 | See Source »

Bank on the Stars (Sat. 8 p.m., NBC). A new quiz, with Bill Cullen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADIO: Program Preview, may 17, 1954 | 5/17/1954 | See Source »

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