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...Opposite. To the layman, the wonder of modern T-football is that anybody but a mathematical quiz-kid can comprehend it, much less play it. At Notre Dame, even the basic quick-opener, known as "43" or "the bread & butter play" (see chart), has a maze of variations. When the Notre Dame quarterback has called the play number ("43" signifies that the "No. 4" back is to ram through the "No. 3" hole) and the team has swung out of the huddle, Leahy's tackles have about two seconds to size up the position of the defensive team...
Take It or Leave It (Sun. 10 p.m., NBC). Quiz show returns with new quizmaster: Eddie Cantor...
...results were astonishing to both readers and editors. Every page was laid out in punchy, advertising style. Each issue bloomed with color printing. Weird symbols of internal organs caught the eye. Among the standing features: "Tumor Topics" and "Cancer Quiz." The Bulletin could say anything with enthusiasm. Inch-high type clarioned: "EVERY PERSON HAS A RECTUM . . . Any Doctor Can Examine It." An article on digital examination to detect cancer of the breast was briskly headed "Stop, Look and Feel," and decked with 17 drawings in color. The editors and artists even hit on a way to make a cover design...
Among the many American bourgeois institutions which the Russians have adapted to their own devices is the quiz program. The Russian version, however, would scarcely get a respectable Hooperating: listeners merely send in questions which omniscient Radio Moscow answers. When a "Soviet citizeness" wrote in recently to ask for a definition of the term "people's democracy," Radio Moscow replied that a people's democracy was a country of a new type, struggling ever onward, ever upward on the road to socialism...
Monitors of the Voice of America had also heard the citizeness' question and, quick as a quiz kid, the Voice gave its own answer: "A people's democracy is not a democracy and does not belong to the people ... It is a country in which the state ... belongs to the Communist Party bosses, who can do just what they please ... A people's democracy is a country where the standard of living of the people must be kept below the standard of living of the Soviet people. Since Soviet man is superior to all other men, obviously...