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...picked as follows: some 14,000 listeners to the Quiz Kids radio program nominated a favorite teacher, giving their written reasons.* A girl and a boy voted for Mrs. Binker. Three college professors picked the seven best letters, then sent out legmen to see the seven teachers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Best Teacher | 5/27/1946 | See Source »

...Binker's reward: $1,000, a year's free graduate study, and an appearance on the Quiz Kids' program. Said she firmly: "But they won't get me into any math quiz with Joel Kupperman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Best Teacher | 5/27/1946 | See Source »

...William ("Mouse") McGovern Jr., now twelve, one of four children (the others are girls), has been called by connoisseurs "the best bartender this side of New Orleans." He also speaks Chinese and has a Quiz Kid's knowledge of history, picked up in Sunday bathtub sessions with Bill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Man about the World | 4/22/1946 | See Source »

...they want to try a third quiz? Both refused, triumphantly accepted an I.O.U. for a $25,000 Victory Bond apiece...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: Diamond Dinner | 2/4/1946 | See Source »

Youth for Christ rallies combine the tried & true methods of evangelism with a streamlined box-office appeal that stresses a good deal of amateur-nightish entertainment: Bible quiz shows, sleight-of-hand performers, ventriloquists, close-harmony quartets. The basic precept: "Remember that this is Youth for Christ, and plan your program with teen-age young people in mind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Youth for Christ | 2/4/1946 | See Source »

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