(This test covers the period mid-February to late May 1947)
Prepared by
The Editors of TIME in collaboration with
Alvin C. Eurich and Elmo C. Wilson
Co-Authors of the Cooperative Contemporary Affairs
Test for the American Council on Education
(Copyright 1947 by TIME Inc.)
This test is to help TIME readers and their friends check their knowledge of current affairs. In recording answers, make no marks at all opposite questions. Use one of the answer sheets printed with the test: sheets for four persons are provided. After taking the test, check your replies against the correct answers printed on the last page of the test, entering the number of right answers as your score on the answer sheet. On the March 1947 TIME Current Affairs Test, the scores of TIME readers (as reported in letters to TIME's editors) averaged 78, ranging from a low of 43 to a high of 102, reported by E. Peter Lehman of Boston. The test is given under the honor system--no peeking.
HOW TO SCORE
For each of the text questions, five possible answers are given. You are to select the best answer and put its number on the answer sheet next to the number of that question, Example: 0. The President of the United States is:
1. Dewey. 2.Truman. 5. Wallace.
2. Hoover. 4. Vandenberg.
Truman, of course, is the correct answer. Since this question is numbered 0. the number 3--standing for Truman--has been placed at the right of 0. on the answer sheet.
U.S. AFFAIRS
STATE OF THE UNION
1. Striking at the core of Communist influence in the U.S., President Truman in March:
1. Advised everyone to read Lenin and Marx for a "blueprint of Communist expansion."
2. Asked Congress to outlaw the Communist Party.
3. Asked unions to bar Communists from membership.
4. Issued a "Red Book" naming prominent Communists.
5. Ordered investigations of government employees.
2. Addressing editors and publishers in New York, the President did all but one of these :
1. Appealed for general price cuts to avert an "economic cloudburst."
2. Asked farmers to continue their "all-out effort" toward greater food production.
3. Called on Labor to maintain moderate wages.
4. Insisted taxes must not be reduced.
5. Said the Government would remove rent, export and credit controls "soon."
3. Earlier, Bernard Baruch outlined an attack on high prices which included a specific demand for a:
1. Ceiling on food costs.
2. 44-hour week with no strikes or layoffs until Jan. 1, 1949.
3. New tax on corporate profits.
4. Revival of OPA.
5. Wage cut of 12 1/2-c--an-hour across the board. 4. The first organized effort to cut prices at least 10% across the board was launched by the merchants of:
1. Aitkin, Minn. 4. Southanna, Va.
2. Hudson, Ohio. 5. Wellsdale, Ore.
3. Newburyport, Mass.
THE 80TH CONGRESS
5. Minnesota's Harold Knutson tried to fulfill one GOP campaign promise by plugging a bill to:
1. Cut all income taxes 20-30%
2. Eliminate corporate surplus taxes.
3. Kill the Farm Parity Prices Act.
4. Remove taxes on incomes less than $2,500 a year.
5. Remove all rent controls.
6. After ten bitter weeks, the Senate confirmed David E. Lilienthal as chairman of the:
1. Federal Reserve Board.
2. TVA.
3. UNRRA.
4. U.S. Atomic Energy Commission.
5. U.S. delegation to U.N.
7. By May's end Congress had done all but one of these:
1. Ended OPA for good.
2. Ended sugar rationing as of Oct. 31.
3. Renewed for two years the President's right to make reciprocal trade agreements.
4. Voted a Constitutional amendment to limit U.S.
Presidents to two terms.
5. Wiped out portal-to-portal pay.
LABOR FRONT
8. The Supreme Court issued a decision on the John L. Lewis case which, in effect, ordered him to:
1. Call off his mass picketing of the Pennsylvania coal mines.
2. Decentralize his union.
3. File an accounting of his union's finances.
4. Hold democratic elections in his union.
5. Revoke the March 31 deadline on his contract with the Government.
9. By surrendering to this decision, Lewis:
1. Reversed the lower court's decision that he was guilty of contempt.
2. Reversed the lower court's jail sentence.
3. Wiped out the lower court's fine against UMW.
4. Wiped out the lower court's fine against himself.
5. Reduced the lower court's fine against his union from $3.5 million to $700,000.
10. But late in March Lewis ordered the mines shut down for a week as a "memorial" to the Ill miners killed at Centralia, Ill., an accident he blamed on the "criminal negligence" of:
1. The Army officers running the mines.
2. The U.S. "coal trust."
3. The National Labor Relations Board.
4. Secretary of the Interior Krug.
5. Secretary of Labor Schwellenbach.
In another decision the Court upheld the right of this group to organize for collective bargaining:
1. Army officers. 4, Government employees.
2. Domestic servants. 5. Journalists.
3. Foremen.
Probably the worst defeat suffered by Labor for years was the "unconditional surrender" by the U.A.W. after an 11 -month strike at:
1. Adam Hat Co. 4. U.S. Steel Corp.
2. Allis-Chalmers. 5. Weirton Steel Corp.
3. Carborundum Corp.
At 6 a.m. Easter Monday the country found itself faced by its first nationwide strike of:
1. Municipal workers. 4. Railroad engineers.
2. Newspaper employees. 5. Telephone workers.
3. Postmen.
The House reacted to this Labor strife with a bill that struck heavy blows at all but one of these:
1. National Labor Relations (Wagner) Act.
2. Norris-LaGuardia (anti-injunction) Act.
3. Communist influence in trade unions.
4. Closed shop (only union members may be hired).
5. Union shop (worker's must join union after they are hired). 15. But late in April the whole Labor picture changed when all but one of these titans of industry signed contracts for wage increases at 15$ an hour:
1. Big Steel. 4. General Motors.
2. Chrysler. 5. Standard Oil.
3. General Electric.
HERE AND THERE
16. Thirteen men who had spent three years and $215,000 studying the freedom of the U.S. press reported in March that:
1. Radio and motion pictures should not be considered part of the press.
2. The press as a whole is doing a superb job of supplying the country with the service it requires.
3. Freedom of the press is in no danger.
4. Press freedom, is now endangered by Government interference.
5. Press freedom, is in danger, but the danger seems to lie within the press, not outside.
17. After five weeks of exploring Antarctica, Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd told reporters it would be a:
1. "Major battleground of World War III."
2. New frontier for the next generation.
3. Treasure house of strategic minerals.
4. "Dangerous thing" to send another expedition.
5. Wonderful icebox for the world's food supplies.
18. Faultless, On Trust and Phalanx are some of the:
1. Jet planes which have broken altitude records.
2. Horses that ran this year in the Preakness and
Kentucky Derby.
3. Ships commissioned by the Cunard Lines for New
York-to-San Francisco vacation cruises.
4. Song hits of the early summer. 5. Trade-names for the new wire bras.
19. Early in 1947 you probably ground your teeth every time you heard, "Open the Door, Richard," a catch-phrase popularized by:
1. Danny Kaye in the movie version of The Secret
Life of Walter Mitty.
2. Fred Allen, ad libbing on Information Please.
3. Frederic Wakeman (The Hucksters) in his new
book, With Us Tonight.
4. Olsen and Johnson in their new Broadway musical.
5. A raucous hit tune composed by Jack McVea.
AROUND
THE WORLD WITH
THE NEWS
Directions: Located on this map, and identified in the statements below, are scenes of recent developments in the news. Write on the answer sheet (opposite the number of each statement) the number which correctly locates the place or event described. 20. Communists, Nationalists continued fighting here.
21. Britain plans to quit this territory by June '48.
22. Early in March this capital received its first visit from a U.S. President.
23. The new U.S. Secretary of State attended his first Big Four Conference here.
24. Britain's Royal Family scored a personal triumph on visit here.
25. This country became owner of her own railroad system when Britain unloaded her largest overseas investment.
26. Hundreds died in explosions and fires after the freighter Crandcamp blew up here.
27. Where Republicans will hold their 1948 national convention.
28. Onetime U-boat nest blasted by the British with the biggest bang since Bikini.
29. Where the Big Four will meet in November.
INTERNATIONAL
THE "TRUMAN DOCTRINE"
30. On March 12, President Truman asked Congress for all but one of these:
1. $400 million in aid for Greece and Turkey.
2. American personnel to supervise the fund.
3. Authority to instruct and train selected Greek and Turkish personnel.
4. "Practical machinery" for insuring the eventual return of the $400 million.
5. Further funds or authority if needed later.
31. The Moscow press reacted to this speech by:
1. Accusing the U.S. of "Hitlerism."
2. Denying Communist control in Greece.
3. Keeping absolutely silent.
4. Threatening to send troops to the Greek and Turkish frontiers.
5. Voicing lukewarm approval.
32. Hailed before a Senate committee to elaborate on the "Truman Doctrine" was Acting Secretary of State Acheson, who earlier had characterized Russian foreign policy as:
1. "Aggressive and expanding."
2. "Barbaric."
3. "Cruel and inhuman."
4. "In total disregard of international law."
5. "Savagely Oriental."
33. "It is a shocking thing when an American citizen goes abroad to speak against his own government," cried Arthur Vandenberg, referring to the anti-"Truman Doctrine" speeches of:
1. Earl Browder. 4. Henry Wallace.
2. Elliott Roosevelt. 5. William Z. Foster.
3. Harold E. Stassen.
34. At this critical moment in the history of his country, King George of Greece:
1. Abdicated in favor of his brother, Prince Paul.
2. Angered many Americans by a visit to the Kremlin.
3. Died of a heart attack.
4. Mysteriously disappeared while hunting in the Greek mountains.
5. Was assassinated by Greek Communists. 35. Other evidence that the U.S. would move swiftly toward democratic reconstruction was the agreement among Marshall, Bevin and Bidault to give France:
1. All the steel made this year in the Ruhr Basin.
2. Coal from the British and U.S. occupation zones of Germany.
3. Full rights to oil fields in U.S.-British zones.
4. $150 million in reparations from Germany.
5. 27% of Germany's food production in 1948.
PEACE--PROBLEMS AND PROGRESS
36. Marshall reported on the Conference of Foreign Ministers in a radio address--said Stalin believes:
1. The conference was a "triumph of cooperation,"
2. Russia must back down on many demands.
3. Compromises are still possible on all main points.
4. Further Big Four meetings are useless.
5. War is inevitable. 37. Meanwhile, at Lake Success, Gromyko used the veto to kill Britain's attempt to fix blame on Albania for:
7. Fomenting revolution on Cyprus.
2. Laying mines which blew up British ships.
3. Repeated armed forays into Greece.
4. Shooting down British civilian airliners.
5. Suppressing civil liberties.
38. As U.N. established an 11-country committee to study the Palestine problem, Russia suggested that the ultimate solution should be:
1. A permanent U.N. trusteeship.
2. A permanent Big Five trusteeship.
3. A joint Jewish-Arab state or partition of the country into two states, one Arab, one Jewish.
4. Unlimited immigration of Jews into Palestine.
5. Stopping of all Jewish immigration into Palestine.
39. World War II's first peace treaties were signed formally at Paris in February with Rumania and all but one of these other countries:
1. Bulgaria. 3. Hungary. 5. Yugoslavia.
2. Finland. 4. Italy.
40. Without consulting either the State or War Department, General MacArthur proposed for Japan:
1. That the closed shop should be outlawed.
2. That labor unions be barred for five years.
3. An early end to U.S. military occupation.
4. That U.S. occupation be continued to 1955.
5. Permanent Allied occupation.
41. In Geneva in early April the representatives of 18 nations met to hear what the U.S. thinks can be done about:
1. Atomic energy control.
2. Displaced persons.
3. An exchange of cultural missions.
4. Reparations from Japan.
5. World trade.
42. Eighty-one Americans called for U.S. support for the "United States of Europe" suggested last winter by 21 thoughtful Britons, led by:
1. Anthony Eden. 4. Herbert Morrison.
2. Clement Attlee. 5. Winston Churchill.
3. Ernest Bevin.
43. While people talked about a possible European federation, these three countries were well on their way to economic unity:
1. Finland, Estonia, Latvia.
2. The Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg.
3. Norway, Denmark, Sweden.
4. Spain, Portugal, Monaco.
5. Switzerland, Austria, Czechoslovakia.
FOREIGN NEWS
ASIA AND THE PACIFIC
44. The calling home of 9,000 Marines was one sign that the U.S. had abandoned its outdated policy in:
1. The Aleutians. 3. Japan. 5. The Philippines.
2. China. 4. Okinawa.
45. The Punjab in India was the scene of the:
1. Bloodiest communal warfare in many years of Indian history.
2. Dramatic funeral of Gandhi.
3. First meeting of the new Indian Government.
4. First outbreak of bubonic plague since 1900.
5. Reconciliation of Nehru and Gandhi.
46. Many opponents of President Roxas disapproved, but the Philippine Government voted the U.S.:
1. Cession of historic Corregidor as a war memorial.
2. The equivalent of citizenship for every American in the islands.
3. 99-year leases on military bases in. the islands.
4. "Severance" payments of $50 million a year for ten years.
5. Thanks for liberation from Japan.
47. A Chinese of whom the world would doubtless hear more was brought to the world's notice in April when stocky, smiling Chang Chun became:
L China's delegate to United Nations.
2. Lamaism's most important "Living Buddha."
3. New chief of the Chinese Communists.
4. Premier of the new coalition Government.
5. President of the Kuomintang.
EUROPE AND THE MIDDLE EAST
48. Britain's continuous crises during the winter months featured all but one of these: 1. Blizzards.
2. Communist-led riots in Manchester and Birmingham.
3. Floods.
4. A severe coal shortage.
5. A wildcat strike of truck drivers which badly disrupted all distribution.
49. In April, most Britons were stunned to learn that their Government's new budget included a 50% increase in the duty on:
1. Beef. 3. Cheese. 5. Tobacco.
2. Beer. 4. Plum pudding.
50. Pushed through to the accompaniment of undignified howling was the Labor Government's most extensive socialist measure yet--nationalization of almost all of Britain's privately owned:
1. Gas and electric utilities. 4. Newspapers.
2. Inland transport. 5. Steel mills.
3. Iron mines.
51. In France, Premier Ramadier's Government continued shaky but his Socialist Party backed him up as he:
1. Failed to crack down on the black market.
2. Feuded with Bidault on foreign policy.
3. Nationalized most of French industry.
4. Dropped all Communist Ministers from his Cabinet.
5. Refused to support the war in Indo-China.
52. The King who died in April at 76 after 35 years on the throne of Denmark was:
L Christian X. 3. Gustav V. 5. Leopold III.
2. George VI. 4. Haakon VII.
53. In Italy the party which consolidated its position as the strongest political force in the country was that of the:
1. Christian Democrats. 4. Qualunquists.
2. Communists. 5. Socialists.
3. Monarchists.
CANADA AND LATIN AMERICA
54. Premier Thomas Clement Douglas reported that many enterprises were well in the black after almost three years of operation by the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation in socialism's only beachhead in America--the province of:
1. Alberta. 3. Nova Scotia. 5. Saskatchewan.
2. Manitoba. 4. Quebec.
55. National Defense Minister Brooke Claxton invited Ottawa military attaches from ten countries to go to Churchill, Man., to dispel rumors that the U.S. and Canada are:
1. Building the world's largest airfield there.
2. Digging an under-ice tunnel to the Pole.
3. Experimenting with jet-propelled planes there.
4. Getting set to blast the icecap from Greenland.
5. Making atomic bombs there.
56. But within the next three years, the U.S. and Canada will build nine new stations within the Arctic Circle to:
1. Make long-range weather forecasts.
2. Map unexplored portions of the Arctic.
3. Refine whale blubber.
4. Service transArctic airliners.
5. Test war materials under polar conditions.
57. By a vote of 3-to-2 the Superior Electoral Court suspended this hemisphere's largest Communist Party--that of:
1. Argentina. 3. Mexico. 5. Paraguay.
2. Brazil. 4. Newfoundland.
58. Like U.S. pioneers of a century ago, men and women are moving westward in search of new homes and opportunities in the rich backlands of:
1. Argentina. 3. Colombia. 5. Uruguay.
2. Brazil. 4. Peru.
59. In his program to modernize Mexico, President Miguel Aleman wants all but one of these:
1. A revolution in Mexico's political system.
2. Cheap, plentiful power.
3. Loans from the U.S. Export-Import Bank.
4. More production from private industry.
5. Thousands of square miles of newly arable land.
RELIGION AND EDUCATION
60. After a leading Catholic churchman described the devil to his radio audience, human progress and the early perfectibility of man were defended, by:
1. Bishop Angus Dun.
2. Dr. John Haynes Holmes.
3. Monsignor Fulton J. Sheen.
4. Reverend Martin Niemoller.
5. Unitarian Pierre van Paassen.
61. Home from a seven-month junket to the Far and Middle East, where he lectured in 15 cities on "The Self-Disclosure of God in History," was famed Preacher-Educator-Theologian:
1. Harry Emerson Fosdick.
2. Henry Sloane Coffin.
3. James Bryant Conant.
4. John Foster Dulles.
5. Nicholas Murray Butler.
62. In the biggest school strike in U.S. history, Buffalo teachers achieved:
1. Full membership in the C.I.O. and A.F.L.
2. Longer summer vacations.
3. New classroom equipment.
4. A promise that salaries would be increased $300 to $625 a year.
5. Shorter hours.
63. Now available to Americans in a one-volume abridgment is Historian Arnold Toynbee's monumental work, originally published in six volumes:
1. Franklin D. Roosevelt.
2. Operations in North African Waters.
3. A Study of History.
4. Hitler's Germany.
5. The Rise and Fall of the British Empire.
64. J. Robert Oppenheimer, wartime boss of the Los Alamos atom-bomb labs, decided this spring that he would:
1. Accept a professorship of dramatics at Yale.
2. Become director of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, N.J.
3. Enter a monastery in Southern California.
4. Retire to Vermont to write a novel.
5. Run a department store in Birmingham, Alabama.
BUSINESS AND FINANCE
65. The Department of Commerce estimated that 1947's first quarter net profits for U.S. industry were:
1. 68% under 1946. 4. 25% over 1946.
2. 25% under 1946 5. 52% over 1946.
3. About the same as in 1946.
66. Most businessmen figured that the first sign of a recession came with the drop in the production of:
1. Iron and steel. 4. Plastics.
2. Lumber. 5. "Soft goods" (textiles).
3. Paper.
67. The Twentieth Century Fund issued a monumental report on the U.S. economy which said that:
1. There will be great unemployment in 1950.
2. There is no more room for expansion.
3. It will take "generations" to attain a high standard of living for all Americans.
4. The U.S. needs more tools and workers at once.
5. The outlook is highly optimistic if we can go on spreading the benefits of increasing productivity.
68. The construction industry figured there would be materials for a million new houses in 1947, but the Department of Commerce estimated there would be:
1. Fewer than 100,000. 4. Two million.
2. Perhaps 250,000. 5. Three million.
3. Only 700-800,000.
69. At May's end many blue-chip stocks were selling at:
1. An all-time low. 4. Highest prices since 1928.
2. New lows for the year.
3. Steadily rising prices. 5. An all-time-high.
70. The FCC decided an issue facing the television industry when it ruled in favor of:
1. Black & white instead of color broadcasts for the present.
2. High frequency instead of low frequency.
3. "Live" entertainment instead of televised movies.
4. "Public service" programs instead of mere "entertainment."
5. Small screen instead of large screen sets. 71. Many months of well-chronicled discord finally broke up the famous U.S. airline team:
1. Curtiss and Wright. 4. Pratt and Whitney.
2. Hughes and Frye. 5. Rickenbacker and Trippe.
3. Kindelberger and Sikorsky. 72. And Milton Reynolds made a record-breaking flight around the world to publicize his:
1. Ball-point pens.
2. Chocolate bars.
3. Diesel-type plane engine.
4. Moving picture, Duel in the Sun.
5. New brand of cigarets ("Alligators").
SCIENCE AND MEDICINE
73. If you were hopeful of long-hidden scientific wonders, you were disappointed in February when relatives opened the old rolltop desk belonging to:
1. Alexander Graham Bell. 4. Samuel F. B. Morse.
2. Charles Steinmetz. 5. Thomas Alva Edison.
3. Don Ameche.
74. The American Heart Association branded as "shocking" the nation's neglect of rheumatic fever, among diseases the No. 1 killer of:
1. Men under 40. 4. Women over 40.
2. Men over 40. 5. Children, mostly between 6 and 14.
3. Women under 40.
75. Working with such unusual accessories as canary birds, guppies and nervous women, Inventor S. Young White is studying the effects of:
1. Insomnia.
2. Pre-natal influence.
3. Solar rays.
4. Sounds too high-pitched for humans to hear.
5. Weather on the disposition.
76. Thanks to two jungle-trotting G.I.s you may soon get a look at a strange creature from Mindanao called a tarsier; it is a:
1. Big-eyed, long-tailed primate with fingers instead of claws.
2. Bison-like animal with horns like a rhinoceros.
3. Composite badger, tapir and jaguar.
4. Giant sloth, thought to have been extinct.
5. Tree-climbing, air-breathing fish.
77. Dentists at the Mayo Clinic and Columbia University sounded a warning that you may ruin your teeth if you drink too much:
L Alcohol. 4. Milk.
2. Coffee. 5. Water containing flourine.
3. Lemon juice.
78. One of the most elaborate disease hunts in recent U.S. history was touched off when a Mexican importer named Eugene LeBar died in Manhattan of:
1. Bubonic plague. 3. Leprosy. 5. Yellow fever.
2. Cholera. 4. Smallpox.
79. The instrument with which most nations are now feverishly hunting for uranium is called a:
1. Centrifuge. 4. Protractor.
2. Geiger counter. 5. Radarclave.
3. Link trainer.
LITERATURE AND THE ARTS
80. Among the winners of the Pulitzer prizes for 1946, announced at Columbia University in May, were all but one of these:
1. History: James Phinney Baxter Ill's Scientists Against Time.
2. Biography: The Autobiography of William Allen White.
3. Novel: Robert Perm Warren's All the King's Men.
4. Play: Garson Kanin's Born Yesterday.
5. Poetry: Robert Lowell's Lord Weary's Castle.
81. One of this century's most remarkable writers, still almost unknown in the U.S., was the subject of a discerning biography by Max Brod:
Charles Baudelaire. 4. Maurice Level.
2. Franz Kafka. 5. Paul Verlaine.
3. Lafcadio Hearn.
82. Boone Caudill, Jim Deakins, Dick Summers, and Teal Eye are some of the flesh-and-blood characters in a new and savory tale of adventure in the West--A. B. Guthrie's:
1. The Big Sky. 4. Rose of Cimarron.
2. Bright Feather. 5. Written in the Wind.
3. Brush Country. 83. For "outstanding reporting and interpretation of news" one of radio's annual "Oscars" went to a commentator whose program only recently went off the air:
1. Fulton Lewis Jr. 4. Lowell Thomas.
2. Gabriel Heatter. 5. William L, Shirer.
3. H. V. Kaltenborn.
84. Kenny Delmar, Parker Fennelly, Minerva Pious and Peter Donald are the radio actors who play all but one of these characters in "Allen's Alley":
1. Ajax Cassidy. 4. Senator Beauregard Claghorn.
2. Lancelot Splay.
3. Mrs. Pansy Nussbaum. 5. Titus Moody.
85. Nine of Hollywood's Oscars (including almost all the important ones) went this year to Sam Goldwyn's movie about returning veterans: 1. The Best Years of Our Lives. 4. To Each His Own.
2. It's a Wonderful Life.
3. Man's Hope. 5. The Seventh
Veil. 86. In The Farmer's Daughter, Joseph Gotten and Ethel
Barrymore got a few easy-to-take lessons in democracy from a Swedish maid, played by:
1. Greta Garbo. 4. Olivia de Havilland.
2. Ingrid Bergman. 5. Zasu Pitts.
3. Loretta Young.
87. This Happy Breed, a loving tribute to an English family, was the latest screen creation of Britain's:
L Alexander Korda. 4. George Bernard Shaw.
2. Alfred Hitchcock. 5. Noel Coward.
3. Carol Reed.
88. Fred MacMurray and Claudette Colbert clowned their way through a screen version of Betty MacDonald's backwoods saga: 1. The Egg and I. 4. We Took to the Hills.
2. Mrs. Mike. 5. When the Going Was Good.
3. Over the Horizon. 89. In a theater season marked by revivals, John Gielgud won critics' plaudits for his acting and directing in: 1. Private Lives. 4. Volpone.
2 The Importance of Being Earnest. 5. Craig's Wife. 3. Lady Windermere's Fan. 90. Brigadoon, an engaging new musical, is about a Scottish village that:
1. Comes to life for a single day every 100 years.
2. Goes through a hectic fortnight when its women all go on strike.
3. Grows rich when gold is discovered there.
4. Marches singlehanded to war against Ireland.
5. Occasionally floats off into the air.
91. Big cultural event in Columbus, Ohio, was the world premiere of A Moon for the Misbegotten, new play by:
1. Elmer Rice. 4. Maxwell Anderson.
2. Eugene O'Neill. 5. William Saroyan.
3. Lillian Hellman.
92. Two of Mexico's Big Three in painting--Rivera and Siqueiros--forgot their public quarrels recently to pay homage to the third:
1. Salvador Abascal. 4. Jose Orozco.
2. Octavia Vasquez. 5. Avila Camacho.
3. Rodolfo T. Loaiza.
93. The American Academy of Arts and Letters announced that it will give its 1947 Award of Merit Medal (given to a painter only once every five years) to the disarmingly realistic:
1. Andrew Wyeth. 4. Peter Hurd.
2. Charles Burchfield. 5. Winslow Homer.
3. Thomas Benton.
94. Kirsten Flagstad got a mixed reception when she returned here to resume her concert career because of her:
L Concert in Berlin in 1942.
2. Quisling husband with whom she spent the war.
3. Refusal to sing for the Allied leaders at Potsdam in July 1946.
4. Throat operation which had affected her range.
5. Trial as a collaborator by a Norwegian court.
95. The music scandal of the year was the row which led to the resignation of the:
1. Boston Symphony's Koussevitsky.
2. Minneapolis Symphony's Mitropoulos.
3. National Symphony's Kindler.
4. New York Philharmonic's Rodzinski.
5. Philadelphia, Symphony's Ormandy.
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