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Theodore ("The Man") Bilbo was as full of answers as a Quiz Kid. On Mutual's Meet the Press program last week, the Senator from Mississippi chattered like an angry chipmunk, made one admission he might regret in a cooler moment...
...Bennett-because it sounded like a byline. Before he started school mother Kitty had taught him to recite by heart the names of all the U.S. presidents. When he was ten, she marched him down to Chicago's station WLS. For the next five years, Harve was a Quiz Kid, one of the best. He made more money (about $20,000) than any Kid except Dick Williams...
...Falls on the map is 36-year-old Lou Cowan, a 6-ft.-3 in., 214-lb. Ph.D. (in history) from the University of Chicago. He hit radio's big time in 1940 by producing Quiz Kids, which still writes him an annual check in six figures. After a wartime stint as boss of OWI's hub office in New York, Cowan went back to show-packaging-producing and selling programs complete from stars to sound cues. Senator was his second postwar production, second sale. (The first: a transcribed series, Murder at Midnight.) To shape it, Cowan laid...
Four representatives of the University Housing Office in Strauss Hall will be featured tonight on the Yankee Network's "Quiz of Two Cities" in a radio duel of wits against a similar group from Brown University, Providence, R. I. The program will be carried over station WNAC from 8 to 8:30 o'clock...
Tonight's show is one in a weekly series of quiz contests pitting radio-inclined members of Boston and Cambridge organizations against contestants from Providence...