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What's My Line? (Sun. 10:30 p.m., CBS). Topflight quiz show, with a talented panel guessing the occupations of strangely assorted guests...
Last week on Capitol Hill: ¶The Senate Crime Committee gave up trying to quiz Florida's Governor Fuller Warren on what he knows about crime and gambling in his state (TIME, July 16). The committee's rules are that all testimony be taken under oath; Warren has refused to testify under oath. The committee reluctantly concluded that it could not ordera governor around. ¶The Senate voted to increase by $3 a month Federal assistance to the aged, blind and disabled, boost aid for dependent children by $2 a month. Cost: $140 million more a year...
General Electric Guest House (Sun. 9 p.m., CBS-TV) is an expensive, hour-long blend of variety acts with a charade-type quiz. In the first show, Pianist-MC Oscar Levant was in his usual sour mood, but his trademark insults seemed more neurotic than funny. Among other guests, Isabel Bigley (Guys & Dolls) and Cornelia Otis Skinner gave performances which a panel of "experts" (including Actress Binnie Barnes and Theatrical Producer Herman Levin) managed to identify...
Pantomime Quiz (Mon. 8 p.m., CBS-TV) is The Game (charades), Hollywood-style, which means that the participants do not lounge around like their quiz panel counterparts in Manhattan, but get right in there pitching and mugging. Such regulars as Jackie Coogan and Adele Jergens, and such guests as Virginia Field and George O'Brien, take turns plugging their latest pictures, then enacting the words of a quotation for the rest to guess...
Down You Go (Wed. 9 p.m., DuMont) is another TV quiz show, this time based on the old parlor game of "Hangman." Unlike many others, it has a relaxed tempo, some briskly intelligent repartee, and gives the impression that the participants are actually enjoying themselves. As moderator, Northwestern University's Dr. Bergen (The Natural History of Nonsense) Evans handles his four-man panel of experts with the assurance of a high-voiced Clifton Fadiman...