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When a plain U.S. citizen faces a U.S. Congressional quiz, the ensuing scene is apt to resemble a medieval inquisition. When a poet undergoes the same ordeal, it is more likely to resemble murder. Last week, lank, sallow, liberal Poet Archibald MacLeish, Librarian of Congress and one of Secretary of State Edward R. Stettinius' new team of assistants, was almost bumped off by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee...
...store laid by for just such emergencies as these. See him if you're burning old slat reports in the brier like Bob Shepherd and others. Lenn White, that soft spoken friend of Professor Cunningham, gave us the word on the Sixth War Loan drive. After the little quiz yesterday, (answer rumored to be in the six hundreds), you'll know how to make the proper checkage. Buy bonds and make a down payment on one of Lt. Towne's special Hari Kari Kits...
Oscar Levant, pianist-composer and brittle-brained, self-styled "lowbrow" quiz expert, became an ex-expert when he made an exit from Information Please. Said he: "I don't mind being off the show. I think it's anticreative. Now I can read things I don't have to remember. It was just like my first marriage. We were not only incompatible. We hated each other...
...teenagers all over the U.S. last week. In cinema houses throughout the land, Bing Crosby addressed some 40,000,000 Americans (via a movie short), urging that high-school youngsters go back to school this month. Frank Sinatra wrote a syndicated newspaper appeal. Superman, the Lone Ranger, the Quiz Kids, the Air Forces' General H. H. Arnold, the Marines' Lieut. General A. A. Vandegrift chimed in. The U.S. Government was conducting the biggest back-to-school drive in history...
Millions of U.S. radio listeners know Doctor I. Q. as the man who every week gives away about 850 silver dollars and hundreds of Milky Way candy bars. As "the mental banker" of the Doctor I. Q. quiz program (NBC, Mon., 10:30 p.m., E.W.T.), he has become famous for his evangelical, house-afire delivery...