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...lamented that "to this generation, Ziegfeld is William Powell with talcum at the temples." In a thumbnail review of Around the World, he asked Orson Welles "Isn't it about time you made up your mind whether you're Senator Pepper, D. W. Griffith, or Kupperman the Quiz Kid? . . . You've been away too long, Doubledome." In another piece he gave the back of his hand to an old pal: ". . . Gary Grant has been putting the blast on the kids who pester him for his autograph. I don't get it. When I first...
...first half-hour program made it evident that Manhattan's WOR had a kid-show formula that would give the precocious Quiz Kids a run for their money. This week, after five trial broadcasts, the Mutual show goes coast-to-coast (Saturday, June 15, 8:30 p.m. E.D.S.T...
...ease before each broadcast, he gets some delightful reactions: quick indignation for obviously stupid questions, squealing giggles to unexpected answers, busy babbling when two or more youngsters try to talk at the same time, as they frequently do. Hoping to catch an even wider audience than the encyclopedia Quiz Kids, Juvenile Jury strictly limits its questions to fields interesting to almost all children...
...arrived in Washington a quarter century ago from Anamosa, Iowa to catch on briefly with the Washington Herald before landing a small job with Pathfinder (a news weekly which circulates mostly to farmers), where he ran a question & answer column that predated the radio quiz shows. Other reporters who had vaulted to fame and fat contracts wondered what kept...
...hands on. Today he can gallop through a technical book, or one on philosophy or art, and then give without a stumble a half-hour precis of its contents. In lectures and debates at the Sorbonne, in meetings of legal and philosophical societies, he shines-a grinning, grown-up Quiz-kid with a cowlick over his forehead...