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...perpetually glowing and humming. The flendish ruler of this electrical wilderness likes nothing better than to set a visitor on a chair in the middle of it all and force him to submit to the latest product of his off-hour madness in the way of an identification quiz...
...fortune left by a Manhattan hair-oil magnate. By virtue of the same will, it also becomes owner of a big-league baseball club known as the New York Loons. It is natural enough for such a cat to be: 1) a guest expert on a radio quiz program (so that Smith can have some fun with Information Please); 2) play host at a literary cocktail party (with much kidding of a large lady who is presumably Elsa Maxwell); 3) pose for a TIME cover (still on the unused "bank...
...equivalency, a person must pass five two-hour exams measuring his intelligence instead of his memory. The literature quiz does not expect him to describe Macbeth; it gives him a passage from the play, and asks questions to see how much of it he understands...
...since he played it as a boy in Indiana. Mutual gave it a try, with the Van Deventers (minus Nancy, who had to go back to school) as the backbone of the experts' panel. In less than five months, the show was the new gee-whiz quiz in radio. Last week, Twenty Questions (Mutual, Sat., 8 p.m., E.D.S.T.) got its usual 10,000 to 12,000 fan letters and a nationwide sponsor (Ronson lighters...
...used to be an accountant, and he was a photographer's model when he was 14. I don't know why he wanted to join the police force," she added. "But then he always hated that inside work, and he loves to listen to detective and quiz programs. We bet on them. He owes me a black slip with lace." Mrs. Horan flushed...