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Radio's quiz programs are depressing, wrote the New York Post's radio reporter Paul Denis last week. Reason: most of the contestants show "appalling ignorance." To clinch his case, he described one quiz show on which all contestants were asked who is the President of France. Wrote Denis solemnly: "No one knew, although the name of Paul Ramadier has been on the front pages for months...
Last week Eddie Nation's letter won his teacher a plump prize: $2,500 to improve her own education, a trip to Chicago to appear on the Quiz Kid program, and the title of "Best Teacher of 1947." Miss Neal was delighted-"not so much for myself, but because of the favorable light it places on Mississippi." Eddie was pretty happy, too: he got $100 for his heartfelt, well-spelled praise. The three judges (Northwestern, Michigan and Notre Dame professors) sifted through 33,000 letters, spent a day in the classrooms and homes of the likeliest nominees...
...written for his Economist off & on ever since, and is now assistant editor on foreign affairs. On the BBC "Brains Trust" program (the English equivalent of Information Please) Laborite Barbara was one participant who never said "I don't know." Audiences loved her for her quiz-kid memory. Between broadcasts she lectured on politics and economics, labored for the liberal Roman Catholic "Sword of the Spirit" movement...
From aloof Eire came a reminder that history, even in its moments of crisis like the Moscow disagreement, is fleeting. The Dublin Theatre Royal's weekly quiz program offered ?20 to anyone who could name all four Foreign Ministers at Moscow. No one could...
...paying public interested in education and self-improvement. This fact will not forever be lost to advertisers. We have in recent times seen the decline of the supposedly eternal gag type of humor, and its slow replacement by the situation comedy of Morgan and Fred Allen. The quiz shows and soap operas are wearing thin in their turn. When sponsors do realize that the American's concern with his personal inadequacies is not limited to "cathartics and mouth-washes," and turn their shame-on-you technique to exposing airpockets in his education, we can expect a flood of adult programs...