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...brains handicap a girl? Said Cinemactress Vanessa Brown, 23, a onetime radio Quiz Kid: "Not if she keeps them well hidden-behind a low neckline...
Down You Go (Fri. 9 p.m., Du Mont). A literate and frequently amusing quiz show...
...quiz program (NBC, Wed. 9 p.m., 8 p.m.), You Bet Your Life, is now well into its fifth season. When one of the contestants, a pretty and shapely high-school math teacher, explained that geometry is -the study of lines, curves and surfaces, Groucho gave his celebrated leer and panted, "Kiss me, fool!" The audience reaction threatened to blow the back out of the broadcasting theater. Groucho's jokes sound far funnier than they read afterwards. But there are exceptions, such as the one when he asked a tree surgeon on his program, Tell me, Doctor, did you ever fall...
...best use of the material available?" and "If not, do you feel he plays favorites? (yes or no)") and his outside interests ("Does Hickman spend more time on television than he should in the best interests of Yale football?"). Hickman has been appearing on a regular weekly television quiz program for the past year...
...very satisfactory sortie. Doubtless Socrates himself is partly to blame: however notable for dialogue, he was almost churlishly averse to drama. But Playwright Anderson is even more responsible. He has twisted Plato's Socrates into a symbol, thrust him into strange company, shown him off like a Hellenic quiz kid and, at moments, with quite unpoetic license, has wrenched him completely out of character and history out of focus...