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Brooklyn's chief librarian had had enough. Last week Dr. Milton James Ferguson announced that henceforth Brooklyn libraries would turn deaf ears to telephoned quiz queries from radio fans...
...cause of Dr. Ferguson's long-suffering : WOR's Tello-Test quiz. On this five-a-week show, announcers telephone a housewife, offer $5 if she can answer a question in one minute. If she fails, another $5 is added, another number is called. Brooklyn listeners telephone the library as soon as they hear the question, hoping their number may be next. The library's calm is shattered during every broadcast. Concluded Dr. Ferguson stiffly: "The identification of 'Lemonade Lucy'* or the architect of the White House . . . seems of small moment...
...real events-or as good as real events-which no one before him has really been able to fathom. Thomas Mann, in his wisdom, makes no such claim for his great and subtle Biblical Joseph and His Brothers. But in King Jesus Robert Graves, bright and solemn as a Quiz Kid, again implies that he has at last discovered the "valid explanation"-this time of the New Testament story...
This week, Harve Fischman turns 16. Last Sunday, standing 5 ft. 10 in. and weighing 170 Ibs., he was "graduated" from the program. Most graduates fall back into obscurity, now & then emerge with a fugitive piece in the Ex-QK Resumé, the Quiz Kids alumni bulletin. But not Harve. His pieces were already appearing in the Times; he had claimed his birthright...
...cinemoppets for the Times at $50 a week. Come fall, after classes (eleventh grade) at Chicago's South Shore High School, he will write a daily column for the Times, salary not yet discussed. On the air he will pick up $50 per as M.C. of a copycat Quiz Kid show, Quiz Down...