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...Said That? (Sun. 10:30 p.m., NBC). Quiz show with Senators Leverett Saltonstall and Hubert Humphrey...
...Twice as many men as women listen to discussions of public issues; four times as many men listen to sports; more men than women listen to comedy programs. Women's favorites: dramatic shows, quiz programs, semiclassical music...
...women took the family wash and their gossip to "Launderettes," which became a modern urban equivalent to the village well; they flocked to quiz programs where prizes reached a frenetic peak of absurdity. The world learned officially that man had flown faster than sound. In sport, the athlete of the year was a horse; Citation won everything worth winning, was probably the greatest horse of all time. Television became an accepted part of U.S. life...
...Professor Wiener were an ordinary scientist, narrowly specialized, he might have devoted the bulk of his book to detailed descriptions of control and calculating mechanisms. But the professor is anything but specialized. Short, round, bearded and kindly, he looks like a Quiz Kid grown into a Santa Claus-and that's about what he is. He was graduated from Tufts at 14 and got his Ph.D. from Harvard at 18. He speaks many languages; he loves detective stories and belongs to Boston's Sherlock Holmes club, "The Speckled Band." A mathematician by trade, he knows almost as much...
Lilienthal, as part of a study on children's radio serials, had previously traded box-tops for such items as mystery rings, atom guns, and quiz master sets...