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Word: whiz (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...appearances, CBS's $64,000 Question last week changed its ground rules so that a successful contestant can return week after week, may go on until he wins $256,000. First memory expert to be eligible for the new goal is Rob Strom, ten-year-old Bronx science whiz, who won his first $64,000 with barely a pause over some half-dozen tough questions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Whither Charley? | 3/25/1957 | See Source »

...Quiz Whiz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 4, 1957 | 3/4/1957 | See Source »

MARGARET DE Lucco Lakewood, Ohio flSays Quiz Whiz Van Doren: "I don't know and I don't care...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 4, 1957 | 3/4/1957 | See Source »

...looking men in the Senate. George Smathers scarcely missed a dance, raced to and fro between his table (for a hasty sip of Scotch) and the dance floor. Idaho's young (32) Freshman Senator Frank Church, ambushed into a dance with Washington Society Hostess Gwen Cafritz, gasped: "Gee whiz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CAPITAL: Mardi Gras on the Potomac | 3/4/1957 | See Source »

...Quiz Whiz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 25, 1957 | 2/25/1957 | See Source »

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