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...radio's first and best quiz shows, Information Please had taken its time about making the switch to TV. "Two and a half years ago," says Producer Dan Golenpaul, "the audience was limited to 1,500,000 who watched only wrestling and roller derbies. Our audience wasn't there. Now, with 17 million sets, we're going to have a fair percentage of the viewers." Last week, in a setting designed by Broadway's Jo Mielziner, Information Please finally took the plunge...
Tossed out on a Greenwich Village sidewalk with his belongings and young wife for being two months behind on his $42.50-a-month rent, Maxwell Bodenheim, 61, eccentric poet-novelist of the '20s (Replenishing Jessica, Naked on Roller Skates), was in need of a friend. New York City's Welfare Department, said Max, had let him down by assuring him that the rent would be paid...
...doctors attending last week's assembly of the International College of Surgeons in Madrid, one of the most interesting exhibits was a one-legged man who was darting around a stone pavement, cutting intricate figures on roller skates. He had been fitted with an artificial leg, and taught to use it, by Dr. Henry H. Kessler of Newark...
...inning, as batters gaped in slack-jawed amazement, Righthander Necciai smacked strike after strike into the catcher's glove. Some batters went down with their bats on their shoulders; others, swinging wildly, hit nothing but air. One batter did manage to nick the ball enough for an easy roller, and was thrown out by the shortstop. By the end of the eighth inning only three batters had reached first-one on a base on balls, one hit by a pitched ball, the third on an error. In the meantime, Necciai had struck out every other batter...
...London, an enthusiastic audience filled the Palladium to applaud 68-year-old Sophie ("Last of the Red-Hot Mammas") Tucker on the 30th anniversary of her first appearance in Britain. Next morning the critics added their cheers. Said the News Chronicle: "She is as irresistible as a steam roller. She is Miltonic as well as Rabelaisian; for she is full of 'nods and becks and wreathed smiles' and is the personification of 'sport that wrinkled care derides...