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...year run on radio, and should be notably successful on TV. As before, Dr. I.Q. (Jay Owen) fires his questions from a theater stage while his four assistants track down contestants in the audience ("I have a lady in the balcony, Doctor!"). The quiz payoff is made in silver dollars, and the questions are as hard as ever ("Name the states that border on the Mississippi River"). With its dramatic values considerably heightened by television, Dr. I.Q. is not likely to remain unsponsored for long...
...Stade continued, "it is for each student to judge whether he can rightfully afford to miss class. Any penalties involved in an unexcused absence from a quiz or hour exam are quite properly in the hands of the instructor concerned...
...Toronto, radio station CHUM daringly dropped all its western serials, quiz programs and disk jockeys, to concentrate on "melodic" music and news. Explained Program Director Mrs. Leigh Lee: "We think there is a big audience that is sick to death of too much disk-jockey chatter. No one cares a damn that Eddie Fisher was wearing pajamas when he cut this disk, or that Hugo Winterhalter broke three fingers while conducting a number. By playing purely music we may bring back that lost audience...
...Hall, I suffer when I read." "Books give you an idea of how to get into trouble but never tell you how to get out of it." "A masterpiece is something you don't understand." "I'm going to read a book some time. I saw a quiz show and the contestant lost the jackpot because he hadn't read a book." "Who wants to read, Miss Hall? It makes you feel petunia."* ¶Amid a cloud of complaints about inflation, the University of Wisconsin found a sliver of a silver lining: diplomas, which cost...
Radcliffe's Brain Trust was defeated, 200-105, by the University of Minnesota Saturday night on the College Quiz Bowl, an NBC sustaining program...