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...Yale game. An urgent plea from a local caterer last year routed a Classics professor out of bed to spell "Merry Christmas" in Greek. And a worried aunt checked up on the way the stripes in a crew tie run so as to make no mistake in her knitting. Quiz programs and the discovery by Greater Boston school kids that the phone is easier to use than the almanac have made less lonely the early evening hours of the two phonemen...

Author: By E. G., | Title: CIRCLING THE SQUARE | 2/10/1941 | See Source »

Friday Evening 7:30"Concert Master": Borodin: Poloveisian Dances from Prince Igor. Rimsky-Korsakov: Capriceto Espagnol. Tehaikovsky: Nutcracker Suite. 8:30 Musical Quiz Show, with Bill Ernst '41, Newbold Landon '42, Ben Hazard '42, and Lyman Snow '42. 9:00 Nine O'Clock Jump. 9:30 A Case for Non-Intervention: Jordan M. Whitelaw '42. 9:45 "Crimson Concert Hall": Gluck: Alcest Overture and "Divinites du Styx." Wagner: Tanuhauser, "Dick Teure Balle." Brahma: Symphony No. 4. 10:45 News...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON NETWORK | 2/7/1941 | See Source »

...Quiz Kids" on the opposite side introduced themselves as William C. Hardee 1L, George Lehr 3L, Mrs. Charles Follansbee, Fred Suits 2L, and John Richardson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Law Faculty and Student Prodigies Battle To Deadlock in "Information" Please Frolic | 1/31/1941 | See Source »

BOYS AND GIRLS Quiz BOOK-Will <§-Molly Donaldson-Musette Publishers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Books of the Year | 12/23/1940 | See Source »

Since radio went all out for quiz shows, many a program expert has strained mightily to vary the monotony of the question and answer formula. Strange product of this striving is the NBC show, Truth or Consequences, through which Procter & Gamble plugs Ivory Soap. Based on the oldtime parlor game, Truth or Consequences differs from rival questionnaires in that it penalizes participants who are baffled by its queries. Boisterous, rowdy, full of custard-pie humor, the program last week was hard on the heels of top-rating quiz show Information Please...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Lunatic Fringe | 12/9/1940 | See Source »

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