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...slower, we digress more, there's more tittle-tattle." says Impresario Maurice Winnick. Winnick bought What's My Line? (along with Mutual's quiz show, Twenty Questions) and sold it to the BBC, although some Britons insist that What's My Line? is derived from a 1946 BBC show called What's in a Face...
...after he audibly mumbled into the mike that the show was "a silly business." Later he was officially scolded for snapping at a whisky broker on What's My Line?: "I'm tired of looking at your face." Unlike U.S. audiences, Britons win no prizes on their quiz shows. The successful challenger who manages to stump the panel is rewarded with a parchment scroll, suitable for framing and hanging in the front parlor...
Pantomime Quiz (Fri. 8:30 p.m., CBS). A lively charade show, featuring Broadway & Hollywood actors...
...radio's first and best quiz shows, Information Please had taken its time about making the switch to TV. "Two and a half years ago," says Producer Dan Golenpaul, "the audience was limited to 1,500,000 who watched only wrestling and roller derbies. Our audience wasn't there. Now, with 17 million sets, we're going to have a fair percentage of the viewers." Last week, in a setting designed by Broadway's Jo Mielziner, Information Please finally took the plunge...
...next two months they will visit universities and live in student hostels at Poona, Madras, Mysore and Travancore. There they will explain U.S. democracy to their Indian colleagues. "Some of us will soon have to do military service," said Mormon David Lund, 21 (who won $120 on a radio quiz show to help finance his trip). "It struck us that here we are ready to go to Korea and fight, but that right now we're not doing anything for our country ... I can face dying for my country, but I'd like to do something constructive...