Word: theys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like many another College listener, Kyser's wife, pretty ex-Model Georgia Carroll, once protested that the quiz questions were too easy. (Sample, flubbed last week by a contestant: "What presidential candidate wore a brown derby and used Sidewalks of New York as a campaign song?") Grudgingly, Kyser agreed...
Kyser's solicitude for lackwit contestants may stem from his own difficulties in graduating from the University of North Carolina. The combined efforts of his erudite family (his cousin was dean of the Graduate School; his uncle founded the Pharmacy Department) barely managed to get him an A.B. degree...
Kyser does not play up to the TV camera, because "if I'm having fun I ain't looking anywhere." Program suggestions from his sponsor (Ford Dealers) and TV Director Earl Ebi are welcome so long as they do not violate the College's basic Simple-Simon...
When it was all over, Reporter Browning found it was "the hardest thing I ever tried to write. It's easy to expose people, but hard to be nice . . . They were really good to me."
Bitter Medicine. Pert, Missouri-born Norma Browning had been putting things to the test-and turning the results into first-rate copy-ever since she got her master's degree in English from Radcliffe College in 1938. Shortly after, she married Photographer Russell Ogg and they settled down to...