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...scraping together enough money to put himself through a university. The well-read son of a refugee minister from Pomerania, he had always wanted to be a philologist, but his wages from the local pipemaking factory were far from enough. Then one night he heard a radio quiz program, found that he could answer all the questions...
Marriage Revealed. Jackie Coogan, 38, balding onetime Hollywood child star (The Kid) turned TV performer (Pantomime Quiz) ; and Dancer Dodie Lamphere, 28; he for the fourth time, she for the second; in Mexico City, in April...
...Arab League states, beginning with Egypt, wanted also to quiz Dulles on the disproportionate division of U.S. aid for the Middle East. In fiscal 1953 the Truman Administration gave Israel, with but 1,500,000 people, $73 million, or 43% of all U.S. aid for the area ($168 million). Eight Arab states, with a population of 40 million, had to divide the other 57%. Arab states had hoped that the Eisenhower Administration would even the bal ance. Yet the new Administration's sched ule reportedly plans to give Israel 41% of the 1954 total. Are Eisenhower and Dulles only...
...lifelong fame-seeker, (most famous remark: "Thank God, I am famous!"), Joad talked students of the Oxford Union into resolving (in 1933) that they would under no circumstances fight for king and country, later soared to great popular heights as the life and soul of the BBC's quiz panel, "Brains Trust." In his later years, he veered back to religion (the Anglican Church), confessed that "Christianity works better than any thing else I have heard...
...everyone expected, the forum was a good show: that is one thing that tiny (5 ft. 1 in.), brown-haired Miss Donnis Martin, head of the Winthrop classics department, has always made sure of. This year she started the program off with a battle of wits, set eight quiz kids to answering such questions as: "What did Caesar say when he crossed the Rubicon? What is a Pyrrhic victory? What is the name of the three-headed dog that guarded Hades?" After that came a Latin movie about the Second Punic War, then a Plautus play called The Twins from...