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Graduation Ceremony. In Detroit, Mrs. Lillian Morrison got a divorce from husband Everett after charging that he spent all his time reading the dictionary while she worked, greeted her return from the office every day by forcing her to learn ten new words and answer an oral quiz on them...
...thirtieth anniversary, the editors of TIME have produced a book called Live Them Again, a "quiz book and memory jogger" covering the years 1923-1953. It has just been published by Simon & Schuster in a paperbound edition (price...
...joggers ... as these: the depression phrase, 'We'll let you know if anything turns up'; the Chicago newspaper ad, 'Bullet holes rewoven perfectly' . . . and the Japanese battle cry, 'Go to hell, Babe Ruth-American, you die.' " Simon & Schuster, old hands at publishing quiz books, have this to say: "Live Them Again is a parlor game matching the fiendish delights of crossword puzzles, Ask Me Another and Twenty Questions. Do you know, for instance, who inspired the quip, 'There but for the grace of God goes God?' Who started network...
...looked as if TV had made a major raid on Hollywood talent. Joan Crawford was on television playing the suffering wife of an unfaithful husband; Marilyn Monroe was cavorting on Jack Benny's show; Ava Gardner, as the mystery guest on a quiz program, was answering embarrassing questions ("Are you married and are you happy about it?"); Loretta Young, Ray Milland and Joan Caulfield were turning up each week on their own programs; Arlene Dahl, Ray Bolger, Agnes Moorehead and young Brandon De Wilde were beginning big TV roles...
...dramatic flight across the continent, found himself an overnight favorite with the tabloids. "Slim" or Captain Lindbergh to his St. Louis backers, he is dubbed the "Flyin' Fool." Photographers crash his hotel room at Garden City, L.I. for pictures of "Lindy" shaving, Lindy in pajamas. When reporters quiz his mother on how she feels about the suicidal risks of the flight, Lindbergh flares into a sharp resentment of the press which he never lost. With his plane grounded by storms on the Atlantic, doubts begin to dance across his mind. Can The Spirit of St. Louis carry the needed...