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...such movie stars as Bette Davis and Janet Gaynor waiting to be picked off as partners. On the walls are gay murals by the theater's top scene designers-Jo Mielziner, Donald Oenslager, Raoul Pène du Bois, Gertrude Lawrence, Eddie Cantor, the dancing De Marcos, the Quiz Kids with Tallulah Bankhead as Quizmaster, are part of the endless floor show. The food is good, and Producer Brock Pemberton, Novelist Carl Van Vechten, Actor Sam Jaffe are among the busboys. And the whole thing is free...
...Quiz. In Albany, N.Y., the Rev. Button S. Peterson opened a session of the State Assembly by reading a seven-line invocation, later asked more than a dozen members if they knew what it was. None of them recognized it: the last verse of America...
...quiz established one piece of good news, however. Patents on synthetic-rubber processes are no longer holding up the show. Thanks largely to nudges from the Department of Justice, on Dec. 19 all U.S. owners pooled their patents in Rubber Reserve Co.-including Standard Oil Co. (N.J.), whose Buna tire-rubber patents (obtained from the German Dye Trust) are the most promising...
...under the direction of Julian Coolidge '95, professor of Mathematics, emeritus, and former Master of Lowell House. The course closes Thursday night when there will be an hour of open questions, to be answered by James A. McLaughlin, professor at the Law School, and prominent Cambridge ARP official, and quiz on the material covered...
...radio code called for particular caution in quiz programs, interviews, and forums, lest enemy agents broadcast information disguised in innocent-seeming phrases. Most such programs on the big networks had already been modified; e.g., for several weeks, questions from the floor in America's Town Meeting of the Air have had to be submitted before being allowed on the air. But there were still plenty of pluggable holes in local programs...