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...TIME News Quiz, which appears for the 27th time in this issue, came into being 16 years ago because a young Ph.D. at the University of Minnesota had the revolutionary idea that college men should "know what goes on in the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Feb. 26, 1951 | 2/26/1951 | See Source »

...Radcliffe debate team of Jill Raitt '53, Nancy Barrow '53, and Elizabeth B. Mulholland '52 hested three Oxford men on a quiz program broadcast over WCOP yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Three Cliffedsallers Outwit Oxford Debate Team in Quis | 2/20/1951 | See Source »

...quiz is a weekly "good will program" to find how much Americans know about England, and vice versa. American students ask English students such questions as "Where is Forest Hills?" and the Britishers counter with such queries as "what is a cockney...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Three Cliffedsallers Outwit Oxford Debate Team in Quis | 2/20/1951 | See Source »

...kept himself poverty-stricken for years paying it off. The intimation was plain: Dewey had not offered Hanley a political bribe to surrender the nomination; he had simply been rewarding an upstanding public servant for good works. Nevertheless, Senate investigators called on Old Joe just before the election to quiz him about the whole affair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: Postscript | 1/15/1951 | See Source »

Like everything Author Wylie has written in recent years (Generation of Vipers, An Essay on Morals, Opus 21), The Disappearance has as many flaws as a pot-holed road, as many undigested scraps of thought as a Quiz Kids' program. But even the grotesqueness of the fantasy, and the gaps and snags, do not seriously detract from the book's underlying warmth of heart and crusading fervor. With the aid of a monstrous trick, Author Wylie again lays a stubby forefinger on his favorite theme-the relation of the sexes-and succeeds, at last, in discussing the matter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Shall We Join the Ladies? | 1/15/1951 | See Source »

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