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...found, even if dull-witted veterans are passed over to commission brainy tenderfeet. To ferret out officer material, all rookies are being interviewed in Big-Businesslike detail as to their education, past occupations, talent for furnishing public entertainment, favorite sports. Queries are couched in folksy phrases. Occupational aptitude quiz: "Just what...
Harvard's youngest prodigy, Donald Grey Barnhouse, Jr. '44, is making a steady job for himself on the popular quiz program "Ask the Children," Friday night will be the third time this student of fourteen years, four months has taken the air for Harvard...
Concocted by Hollywood Adman Raymond R. Morgan, What's On Your Mind? includes a quiz, designed to cut down long-winded participants, musical interludes, and occasional personal requests. A 67-year-old U. S. Army veteran of the Boxer Rebellion, who claimed that he had been court-martialed and dishonorably discharged from the Army on charges of having peddled illegally 90? worth of chocolate bars, broadcast, "All I want is for some of the fellows who were with me in Peking in 1900 to come forward and help me clear my name...
...welcomed to his mike except roaring drunks and obvious lunatics. He entices clients from Manhattan crowds by rumbling: "Step up, brother, stop your mad rush to the grave," proceeds to subject them to a barrage of jests, jibes and singularly unabashed questions. At high speed, he whirls through a quiz that in cludes such inquiries as: "What's your name, what do you do, are you in love, what is love, are you a dreamer, how do you stand on the three-way stretch-thank you, brother. There's a lull in the joint. Come here, dear...
Into Manhattan last week trooped 221 delegates to the National Contesters' Association's fourth annual convention. This week, as a polite gesture to the assembled contesters, CBS's Professor Quiz will entertain on his program two hotshots of the organization: paper-thin, 28-year-old Everett Lane, founder and past president, and Joan Lambert, head of the All-American Contestar School of Willow Grove, Pa., which has about 2,000 students...