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Q.E.D. (Tues. 9 p.m., ABC-TV) is a new, unsponsored quiz program devoted to brain teasers ("There are two windows, each four feet from top to bottom, and four feet across-why does one give twice as much light as the other?").* On the opening show, M. C. Doug Browning and his panel of experts (Actors Nina Foch and Charles Korvin, ex-Governor Hoffman of New Jersey, Producer Hi Brown) ended up in nearly as much confusion as the TV audience...
...Boston papers--for one edition. Brown had finally met up with the police reporters and given them substantially the same story. But by noon Thursday there was a new angle. The Traveler's Home Edition ran a six-column streamer saying QUIZ 2 AT HARVARD IN DAHLIA CASE; The Globe played the story smaller, but in greater detail. It said...
...Eurich decided to develop his own quiz. He found a collaborator in Elmo C. (for Chamberlin) Wilson, a graduate student nominated for the job by his department.The two formed a team that lasted...
Eurich and Wilson set up, revised, and tried out innumerable questions with the help of 30-odd researchers, several professors of arts and social sciences, and hundreds of submissive students. The team emerged from all this toil, sweat and tedium in May 1934 with a quiz they liked. The scholarly American Council on Education also liked...
...editors agreed to collaborate on a quiz for schools, but barred it from the magazine. But this first school test went over so big that the editors changed their minds. They decided to publish a tougher version, which appeared in our issue of March 11, 1935. When readers requested 18,000 extra copies, the test became a regular feature...