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...Sports Quizzer Answers...
...slicing away of extraneous issues in solving such epic equations as whether a contestant is a rabbit poacher or a gravedigger by trade. Says Moderator John Daly admiringly: "Dottie follows a logical, syllogistic construction: she is more of a technician and a scientist in her approach." The only other quizzer to come close to equaling her eager beaverability is Florence Rinard of Twenty Questions. Cinemactress June Lockhart of Who Said That? has been described as a "walking encyclopedia," but she lacks the determined Kilgallen pounce...
...Francisco wharfside where she sang in the '20s. She has had a Broadway career (as a sort of second-run Ethel Merman) and a few big scenes in the movies. This week, at 36, Benay will step up to a microphone and a new career in radio as quizzer on a parents v. children stunt called Keeping Up with the Kids (Sat. 8:30 p.m. E.S.T., Mutual). The show calls for no singing, but that's all right with Benay. "I hope to grow into old character woman parts," she explains...
...second annual meeting, the Mother-in-Law Association of Saks Thirty-Fourth Street, Manhattan department store, gave four judges-Publisher Wilfred Funk, Actress Helen Hayes's mother Catherine Hayes Brown, Singer Lanny Ross, Quizzer Craig ("Professor Quiz") Earl-the task of choosing a word to replace "mother-in-law." Several hundred entries, including Motherette, Mother Rat, Ersatz Mother, Blitzkrieg Mother, Mother-link, were discarded in favor of "Kin-Mother." Commented Lexicographer Funk: "These synthetic words . . . seldom catch on." "Kin-Mother" did not catch on in Amarillo, Tex., where next day Kin-Mother Mrs. L. O. Thompson, first president...
Last week, as Pete Nehemkis tried (unsuccessfully) to get Mr. Stanley to admit that his firm, managing underwriter for A. T. & T., had parceled out its financing ($580,000,000 since 1935) to a select and fixed group, SEC's quizzer carefully avoided reference to competitive bidding. A question by TNEC Chairman O'Mahoney gave Harold Stanley the opening he was waiting for. With the air of a man starting a lecture, Mr. Stanley sounded off: ". . . The question of competitive bidding is a subject which I would like to go into and talk about at length...