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However, Edith M. Stokey, secretary to the K-School and coordinator of academic appointments, said yesterday she expects the University to officially announce the appointment soon...
Once a month the weekly meetings of the seminar will be open to all students and will be led by a guest lecturer. Brian Stokey Jr., associate director of Advanced Standing, is now accepting applications from interested freshmen. The committee on Advanced Standing has yet to approve the seminar and decide on its credit or non-credit basis...
Pantomime Quiz is based on the old parlor game of charades, and particularly on its more sophisticated descendant, The Game, which became popular in the 1930s. While attending Los Angeles City College in 1939, Stokey and other students played The Game on experimental TV (call letters: W6XAO) from a tiny studio over a car dealer's garage. "There were probably more people in the studio than there were viewers," Stokey recalls, "but even then I felt it was undeniable TV material." After a stint as an NBC announcer and 3½ years' war service in the Air Force...
...turned the trick in 1947 over Los Angeles station KTLA, and Pantomime Quiz has been on and off TV ever since. There have been few changes in format. M.C. Stokey hands out actable "stumpers" (e.g., "Hand your teeth to me, grandma, I'm putting the bite on a friend") to competing four-man teams, each made up of two name actors and two pretty actresses. The player who gets the stumper acts it out with passion and abandon while his three teammates have only two minutes to supply the words. Stokey has speeded up the game with the invention...
...some 30,000 stumpers mailed in each week by viewers who hope to win a TV set by baffling one of the teams. Five readers on the West Coast reduce this flood to a trickle of the 100 best, an assistant producer in Manhattan thins it to 50, and Stokey selects the best eight of these. A great many of the stumpers sent in have already been used or seem too easy. The most frequently submitted gag line is "Head for the roundhouse, Nellie, the brakeman can't corner you there." Stokey has no explanation for its appearing...