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...object to 100 million people eavesdropping on your private life, life can be beautiful-after a fashion. In its role of vulgar Lady Bountiful, radio is showering quiz-answering Americans from its loudspeaking horn of plenty. It supervises their marriages and honeymoons, builds houses for them, gets them jobs-even fixes their teeth or buys them wooden legs...
Time's A-wastin' (Wed. 10p.m., CBS). A quiz program that clocks the answers and pays premiums for the contestants' speed...
Lonely Man. School was the same. Manhattan's Ethical Culture Schools tried to find a moral equivalent for religion (credo: "Deed, not Creed") and went in for the production of quiz kids. By the time he graduated, Robert could read Caesar, Virgil and Horace without a Latin dictionary, had read Plato and Homer in the Greek, composed sonnets in French, and tackled treatises on polarized light...
...have had to lug their chairs from class to class. The space shortage has caused an academic revolution: in the old days, any qualified student could attend lectures for four years without showing his stuff until final examinations; today he is graded on his performance in a weekly Praktikum (quiz section), may be flunked at the end of a semester to make room for a brighter student...
...business student wrote Allen last Monday, taking him up on an offer to reimburse listeners who had missed a chance to win a radio quiz prize because of being tuned to his show. Russell declared that he might have won the new car from a WHBS quiz program if he hadn't been listening to Allen at the time...