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Even the chitchat between contestant and quizmaster on Twenty One and $64,000 Question is composed and drilled in advance. On What's My Line?, the panel does not know the guest's occupation it is supposed to guess, but its members are prompted before air time with questions calculated to produce the funny double entendre. When Trust your Wife used celebrities as contestants, they were guaranteed a fee regardless of whether they won. "Of course," says a Hollywood agent who gets requests from quiz shows for celebrities, "they don't ask anything that will make...
...Showgirl Dale Logue, who complains that she was deliberately fed a question that defeated her for $10,000. It was the same question, she says, that she muffed during a "warmup session" before the show. In their growing desperation to check falling ratings that have knocked six quiz-panel shows off the air since October, the programs may be taking greater risks, especially in trying to woo celebrities as contestants. Showman Nils T. Granlund, who won $10,000 from The Big Surprise on "extremely easy" questions, admits that some of the questions he answered during his screening interviews may have...
...three-hour debate on the topic "Should the Harvard Student Council continue its membership in the National Student Association" elicited widely differing responses from a panel of six students and a small audience in Emerson Hall last night...
...three panel members who supported the affirmative side of the question, Reginald Green 2G, Luigi Einaudi '57, and carl Sapers 2L, cited Harvard's responsibility as one of the world's leading universities, to take an active role in international student affairs...
...Last Word (Sun. 3:30 p.m., CBS). Novelist Laura Z. Hobson and Historian Arthur Schlesinger join the panel on the English language...