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...Flippen, vaudeville veteran, in "Correction, Please," a quiz that fizzed mainly because...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Best Busts | 8/27/1945 | See Source »

Sole purpose of the quiz (an annual affair is to stimulate interest; no grades are based on it. Says Master Oliver Vanoff: "I often have to use a dictionary myself when I set the paper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Posers at Eton | 7/9/1945 | See Source »

Surefire though the soap opera has proved, P & G has continued to experiment. Its current line-up of 19 network shows has only ten daytime operas. After being an early pioneer in audience participation programs (1939) with Professor Quiz, P & G now urges listeners to play Truth or Consequences and to Breakfast in Hollywood, caters to evening dial-twisters with the Rudy Vallee Drene Show and Beatrice Kay's Teel Variety Hall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: P & G to Market | 6/18/1945 | See Source »

...grown-up quiz program outgrew the lonely forenoon and joined the busy night air last week. A rising chorus of fan mail persuaded BBC and the Blue network to shift their Transatlantic Quiz from Saturday mornings to 10 p.m. Tuesdays (E.W.T.), and to boost the show from 15 minutes to a solid half hour. In its new spot Transatlantic will compete with Bob Hope-but the audience appeal is hardly the same...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Stumpers Across the Sea | 2/12/1945 | See Source »

Radio tastes of 1,000-odd magazine and newspapermen were reported by the trade paper Radio Daily. The journalists voted Information Please their favorite commercial and quiz show; Bob Hope, favorite entertainer (and comedian); Bing Crosby and Dinah Shore, favorite popular songsters; Lowell Thomas, favorite commentator; New York Philharmonic-Symphony, favorite symphony orchestra; One Man's Family, favorite soap opera...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Who Won, Jan. 22, 1945 | 1/22/1945 | See Source »

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