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When the dishes were cleared, waiters distributed paper & pencils at every table. John Kieran of Information, Please appeared on the platform like an evil genie. The startled guests found themselves fumbling agonizingly through the richest-and probably the hardest-quiz program ever held...
...Missing Guest. Just before midnight Kieran rose to announce that two men had tied with marks of 85. There would be another quiz to determine the winner. One nervous man-black-haired Lester B. Stone, onetime executive secretary to Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia-showed up on the stage. The second contender-plump, wealthy William Rogers Coe, banker and vice president of the Virginian Railway Co.-had given the whole thing up, was found across the street visiting some pals at LaRue's Restaurant...
...veteran Quiz Kids (average age: 13) were taken on by mere youngsters-one of them 4 the others 5. Either as entertainers or scholars, the veterans were safe...
...Whiz Quiz. Veteran Funnyman Colonel Stoopnagle (Frederick Taylor) played the part, without obvious effort, of a know-nothing layman. Clifton Fadiman played the part, without obvious effort, of the omniscient explainer. Whenever Fadiman got too hot to handle, Colonel Stoopnagle was to order the orchestra to play. There was a good bit of music in the half hour...
...Small Town King. Young (42) Mr. Ruskin, no violet for modesty, attributes his success to his sharp, morning-glory wits. He likes to remember that he graduated from eighth grade at the age of ten years and nine months, from high school at 14 ("I would have been a quiz kid"). He became an apprentice at Chicago's high-class, high-priced Sargent's drugstore (today he owns half of it). He quit to take a crack at almost everything else, even spent 18 months in Italy studying to be an opera tenor, eventually decided that...