Word: darrow
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Star of the show was handsome, seven-year-old Gerard Darrow, who, on the Quiz Kids' first program, startled listeners with the information that a "candlefish is a small fish of the smelt family, used by the Pacific Coast Indians for its oil. The oil burns readily and very brightly and has a terrible odor." Runner-up in popularity to Gerard on the two programs so far is 13-year-old Van Dyke Tiers. Pacing right along, last week Van Dyke showed his speed by fully explaining PK4 (a chess term). Thirteen-year-old Mary Ann Anderson, a high...
Second prizes of $35 each went to Jame J. Pattee, Jr. '41 of Winthrop House, and John B. Fisher '41 of Lowell House. Fisher chose Lincoln's "Second Inaugural Address," while Pattee's selection was Clarence Darrow's "Defense of Loeb and Leopold...
Standing in the rain on a bridge spanning Chicago's Jackson Park Lagoon, Magician Claude Noble, hymnbook in hand, intoned to the watery sky: "Clarence Darrow, I am here in fulfillment of your pact made with me. If you can manifest yourself, do it now." It was the second anniversary of the death of the famed lawyer and agnostic. On the bridge whence his ashes had been scattered waited Darrow's widow, son, and a cluster of friends. There was no manifestation...