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...Louis Post-Dispatch admonishes cubs, with good reason, that probe is to be "generally reserved for surgeons," and is not a synonym for investigate. (But, like aid, bar, ban, hit, quiz, curb, and other short verbs, it is a constant temptation to headline writers.) Since the days of famed Managing Editor O. K. Bovard, the P-D has had a ban against hit &run driver. It's bad taste, said O.K., to refer to a traffic tragedy in sporting terms...
Deliberately Dull? Journalist Ivor Brown thinks there is something to be said for the "odd appetite for knowledge in our times, an appetite which radio [through quiz shows] stimulates and feeds." With relief and some surprise he notes that radio, "instead of flattening out all our accents and idioms, and reducing the rich variety of our national speech . . . has actually popularized diversity." Even "American and Canadian voices seem to have especial powers of coaxing one to listen and to like what one hears...
Ella Mason, chatty hostess of a daytime food quiz show on Manhattan's WHN (which this week changes its name to WMGM-in honor of affiliated Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer), has solved the problem of how to prevent audiences from prompting quiz contestants. Her contestants will wear earmuffs of sequins, poppies and plumes...
...Marriage Programs: ". . . Enable cretin couples to take their marriage vows over a coast-to-coast network and later to raise children who will become contestants on quiz programs...
...Clear Call Lanny Budd is assigned by Roosevelt to bone up on rockets and jets. This is to prepare him for a visit to Germany to quiz a German scientist (anti-Nazi) on German progress in developing the rocket bomb. Thereafter the episodes are what might be expected: the high moment of almost every Lanny Budd novel is an escape from the Gestapo, or the rescue of someone from a Fascist torture chamber...