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Alvin C. Eurich and Elmo C. Wilson, originators of TIME'S quiz, make up the 105-question Current Affairs Test with the cooperation of TIME'S editors. TIME'S Educational Bureau prepares an analysis of scores for interested school administrators...
...with local variations, have been enacted at more than 450 private schools and junior colleges. Additional schools will hold contests between now and Feb. 22. Shortly after that, many of you will take a more difficult version of the same test, when it appears in TIME as the News Quiz...
TIME'S tests will be more than successful if they produce anything like the enthusiasm shown by many readers who wrote in after our last News Quiz ran in October. Said a G.I. in Korea: "The generator failed, and we were left without electricity, so I worked out the quiz by candlelight." And a California housewife: "I love the quiz and take it each time with clammy hands and thumping heart exactly as if I were back in college and had to do well...
Good luck next time to them, to the students at The Hill and more than 2,000 other schools, and to those of you who take the quiz when it runs in TIME...
...tried to kill the President of the United States . . ."); short disk-jockey stints by Conductor Leopold Stokowski and Hollywood's Sam Goldwyn, Walt Disney and Arthur Treacher; programs by Poet Carl Sandburg (folk songs), Eleanor Roosevelt (interviews), baseball's Jackie Robinson (children's disk-jockey quiz). Of these, Robinson and an all-night recorded symphonic series -which started only last week-are the only two still carrying on. A future possibility: Portrait of New York (new music, to be composed by Duke Ellington, Vernon Duke, Meredith Willson, Don Gillis, Skitch Henderson). Cott is currently trying to line...