the TIME News Quiz
(THIS TEST COVERS THE PERIOD MID-NOVEMBER 1947 TO EARLY FEBRUARY 1948)
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 1948 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.
The test is given under the honor system--no peeking.
HOW TO SCORE
For each of the test 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. 3. Truman. 5. Wallace.
2. Hoover. 4. Vandenberg.
Truman, of course, is the correct answer. Since this question is nujnbered 0, the number 3--standing for Truman--has been placed at the right of 0 on the answer sheet.
U.S. AFFAIRS
Congress and the President
1 . Returning from South America last fall, President Truman summoned Congress back into session, asked them to act on European aid and:
1. Communism in the U.S.
2. Legislation to solve the housing crisis.
3. The pending alliance with Britain, France, Canada.
4. A program to check inflation.
5. The worsening labor situation.
2. Before the legislators returned, the President had ready for them a report by his Council of Economic Advisers stating that aid to Europe: 1. Was a "calculated risk" which U.S. economy must undertake.
2. Would have no serious effect on U.S. economy.
3. Would be on a strict lend-lease basis.
4. Would require $3 billion by Jan. 1.
5. Was already too late to save Belgium and Greece from Communism.
3. Once assembled, Congress gave the President a little less than he had asked for, passed a bill authorizing:
1. U.S to buy $5 billion worth of French, Italian, and British products to help out these nations' economies.
2. $20 billion in aid to Europe.
3. Revision of our tariff schedules to favor "European democratic nations."
4. Loan of $5 billion to the World Bank for relief purposes.
5. $540 million for stop-gap aid to China, France, Austria, Italy.
4. The State Department, the Herter Committee and the Harriman Committee finally agreed that the ERP should be administered by:
1. The State Department.
2. The Department of Commerce.
3. The President.
4. A separate organization with the boss appointed by the President.
5. Europeans.
5. In his opening message to the special session, Truman had shocked Congressmen by asking power to do all but one of these:
1. Establish price ceilings on basic cost-of-living items.
2. Ration certain essential items.
3. Prevent wage increases.
4. Roll back food prices to June 1 levels.
5. Extend and strengthen rent controls.
6. Congressman Knutson of Minnesota, meanwhile, continued to shout that the No. 1 business of the special session should be:
1. Tax reduction.
2. Laws to outlaw Communism in the U.S.
3. Strengthening of neutrality laws to prevent U.S. entry into another war.
4. Appropriations to strengthen the military defenses of the nation.
5. Erection of more stringent immigration barriers to bar "undesirable aliens" from corning here from Europe.
7. Congress also held several investigations, one of which brought contempt citations to ten Hollywood writers and producers who refused to answer a question on:
1. Their annual incomes.
2. Their religious convictions.
3. Whether or not they ever introduced subversive propaganda into movies.
4. Whether they were Communists.
5. Their allegiance to the U.S.
8. And just before Howard Hughes returned to Washington for hearings of the Senate War Investigating subcommittee, he made headlines by:
1. Admitting "irregularities" in his government contracts.
2. Declaring he had been "betrayed" by Johnny Meyer, his press agent.
3. Flying his mammoth flying boat.
4. Stating he would answer no more questions.
5. Signing over all profits from his movie, The Outlaw, to European relief.
9. One of these recommendations was not included in the President's State of the Union message to Congress:
1. Strengthened civil rights legislation.
2. Continued price supports and crop insurance.
3. A 75-c- minimum wage.
4. Increased state aid for education, housing and public health.
5. Admission of larger numbers of displaced persons.
10. . . . and in his budget message, one of these items was not asked for:
1. $11 billion for defense.
2. $7 billion for overseas commitments.
3. $3 billion for small business loans and subsidies.
4. $6 billion for veterans.
5. $5 billion interest on the national debt.
11. To head the newly -reorganized Voice of America, the President appointed, as Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs:
1. William Benton. 4. George V. Allen.
2. Chan Gurney. 5. Palmer "Ep" Hoyt.
3. Archibald MacLeish.
12. One of the following was not listed by Secretary of Agriculture Anderson as a government insider who may have profited in grain speculation:
1. Democratic Committeeman Ed Pauley.
2. White House Physician Brig. Gen. Wallace Graham.
3. Presidential Military Attache Maj. Gen. Harry Vaughan.
4. Former Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau.
5. Mrs. Elmer Thomas, wife of the senior Senator from Oklahoma.
13. The President's Air Policy Commission made all but one of the following suggestions:
1. That the U.S. develop an air arm capable of dealing with possible atomic attack by Jan. 1, 1953.
2. That the Navy be held at its present strength.
3. That $3.9 billion be spent for military planes in the next two years.
4. That U.S. airlines be kept "strong and healthy."
5. That a Secretary for Air be appointed at once and given cabinet rank.
Business
14. While many in the U.S. feared inflationary effects of general tax reductions, there was widespread support for a federal community-property tax law, under which:
1. Husbands and wives could split their combined income, file separate returns.
2. Homesteads would be exempt from local real-estate taxes.
3. State income taxes might be deducted from federal returns.
4. Farm land taxes would be lowered.
5. Personal property taxes would be abolished.
15. Although a record estimated 36 million head of cattle were slaughtered last year, a dark threat hangs over the U.S. meat supply:
1. Sky-high retail prices.
2. Increased black market activity.
3. Invasion of the foot & mouth disease from Mexico.
4. Cattle rustlers.
5. A plan to export all our beef to Russia.
16. Bernard Baruch's testimony on the ERP before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee recommended all but one of the following:
1. Stand ready for five years to buy all the world's nonperishable materials which cannot find markets elsewhere.
2. Promise to go to war to protect Europe from aggression.
3. Reduce taxes at once.
4. Stabilize wages.
5. Reduce farm prices and guarantee them for 3 years.
17. Because of our large resources of it, Standard Oil experts are placing their major long-range bet on gasoline synthesized from:
1. Soybeans. 4. Uranium.
2. Coal. 5. Wood.
3. Goldenrod.
LABOR
18. With the two words "We disaffiliate" John L. Lewis severed his mine workers' connection with the:
1. A.F.L. 2. C.I.O.
3. N.A.M.
4. National Labor Relations Board.
5. Communist Party of America.
19. One of the strongest left-wing groups in labor was smashed last fall when elections gave control of the auto workers' union to a majority headed by:
1. James Carey. 4. Walter Reuther.
2. Roland Thomas. 5. Michael Quill
3. Joseph Curran.
20. The A.F.L. convention at San Francisco abolished 13 vice presidencies to avoid the Taft-Hartley act requirement that all union officers:
1. Be citizens of the U.S.
2. Submit to a loyalty check by the F.B.I.
3. Swear that they are not Communists.
4. Be legally and financially responsible for strike damages.
5. Be elected by secret ballot.
21. In addition to a demonstration of President Phil Murray's complete control, the C.I.O. convention in Boston was highlighted with a speech by:
1. Harry Truman. 4. George Marshall.
2. John L. Lewis. 5. Tom Dewey.
3. Bob Hope.
22. Until James Caesar Petrillo gets the Taft-Hartley act changed as he wants it, the only ones who receive music royalties are:
1. The recording firms.
2. The disc jockeys.
3. The musicians who perform it.
4. The radio stations.
5. The copyright owners.
Politics
23. The union leader who came out strongly for President Truman's reelection, after bellowing a year earlier that "You can't make a President of a ribbon clerk," was:
1. Lewis of the miners.
2. Green of the A.F.L.
3. Whitney of the railroad trainmen.
4. Beck, of the teamsters.
5. Bridges of the longshoremen.
24. While among those who might have supported Henry Wallace's third-party candidacy, only one of the following remained at year's end:
1. Columnist Frank Kingdon.
2. UAW Chief Walter Reuther.
3. The Amalgamated Clothing Workers.
4. Congressman Vito Marcantonio.
5. NMU President Joe Curran.
25. One of these reasons was not among those mentioned for General Eisenhower's withdrawal from the Republican nomination race:
1. Reluctance to electioneer against his Commander-in-chief.
2. "Generals in politics are bad for the nation and bad for the Army."
3. Prior commitments to Columbia University's trustees.
4. Unwillingness to part company with his old mentor, General Marshall.
5. Distaste for the roughhouse of campaign politics.
Sport
26. Back at the same old stand next spring after a year's suspension will be Leo ("The Lip") Durocher as the colorful manager of the:
1. Boston Braves.
2. Brooklyn Dodgers.
3. Washington Senators.
4. Cleveland Indians.
5. New York Giants.
27. In the annual AP sportswriters poll, the distinction of "male athlete of the year" went to:
1. Jake Kramer. 4. Johnny Weissmuller.
2. Joe DiMaggio. 5. Johnny Lujack.
3. Jersey Joe Walcott.
Here & There
28. The Civil Rights Congress, American Youth for Democracy, and Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee all share the distinction of having been:
1. Blacklisted by U.S. Attorney General Tom A. Clark as subversive.
2. Praised in a recent speech by Stalin.
3. Refused the use of the mails for their organization literature.
4. Indicted by Congress.
5. Exposed at Nuernberg as Fascist organizations.
29. The new U.S. half-dollar, first struck since 1916, bears the portrait of:
1. Robert Morris.
2. Benjamin Franklin.
3. Alexander Hamilton.
4. Albert Gallatin.
5. James Madison.
30. One of these statements is entirely contrary to a conclusion reached by the American Council on Education's 1947 report:
1. "There shall be no barrier between a qualified individual and the attainment of the education best suited to his aptitudes."
2. "U.S. colleges should devote themselves to raising an intellectual elite."
3. "Research should be devoted to the general, not the individual welfare."
4. "The number of college and university students should be doubled by 1960."
5. "Educational segregation should be eliminated as soon as possible."
31. During the "blizzard of '47," which out-snowed the famed blizzard of '88 by 4.9 inches, the estimated snow tonnage which fell on New York was:
1. 9,000 tons. 4. 900,000 tons.
2. 99,000 tons. 5. 90 tons.
3. 99,000,000 tons.
32. Mentioned in wartime War Secretary Stimson's memoirs was the War Department's operation BOLERO, which was:
1. An amphibious attack across the Bay of Biscay through northern Spain.
2. A 50-division cross channel assault by the summer of 1943.
3. A concentrated air attack (based on Gibraltar) on German positions in North Africa prior to the landings.
4. A two-pronged attack on the Iberian peninsula to divert German strength from Italy and the Balkans.
5. A secret mission to Dictators Franco and Salazar to enlist their aid to the Allies after Dunkirk.
INTERNATIONAL
The Cold War
33. The Big Four Conference to discuss German peace terms ended in disagreement--caused in part by Molotov's demand that:
1. Germany be exempt from reparations.
2. A strong centralized government be set up as a first step.
3. A 40-year Big Four alliance be signed at once.
4. All parties but the Communist be banned in Germany.
5. The Soviet zone be joined economically but not politically with the West.
34. Gathering their satellites at a Warsaw conference, Russian Communists set up an organization called the:
1. Pan-Marshall League.
2. Association for the Preservation of Real Democracy.
3. Cominform.
4. Fighters for Freedom.
5. League Against Imperialism.
35. Before the Marshall Plan could operate, the Reds did all but one of these:
1. Started riots in scores of towns in Italy.
2. Whipped up widespread strikes in France.
3. Executed the democratic opposition leader in Bulgaria.
4. Moved in to control the Peasant Party in Poland.
5. Organized anti-Semitic demonstrations and riots in the U.S.
36. Molotov, perhaps seeking to quiet grumblings inside Russia, brought cheers from a Moscow audience when he claimed that:
1. The atom bomb has "long since ceased to be a secret."
2. Russia's army was triple the size of America's.
3. Russians would be allowed to travel freely all over the world.
4. The Soviet Union was completely self-sufficient in all strategic materials.
5. Pools discovered in Siberia gave Russia the world's greatest oil resources.
37. "Protocol M," recently made public by the British, was:
1. The Russian Embassy's secret code word for the Marshall Plan.
2. A Red Army order to shut off American supplies for General Clay's Berlin headquarters.
3. A detailed plan for churning Western Germany into riot.
4. The newly-discovered details of Russia's pre-war plan to divide Europe with Germany.
5. A textbook series distributed to schools in the Russian zone.
Peace Moves
38. Timely help for U.S. supporters of the Marshall Plan came from abroad when:
1. Britain and France scaled down their requirements for U.S. machinery.
2. Russia proposed to return war plants to western Europe.
3. Belgium and The Netherlands offered to turn over their ERP share to France.
4. British Foreign Secretary Bevin pledged to seek a customs union of Western European states.
5. The French devalued the franc.
39. It came as a surprise to many that the U.S. and Russia actually voted together in the U.N. to:
1. Admit Eire to membership.
2. Settle the Arab-Jewish conflict in Palestine by partitioning the Holy Land.
3. Bring ten major Italian war criminals to trial.
4. Hold the next Assembly meeting in Moscow.
5. Place Italian colonies under a U.N. mandate.
FOREIGN NEWS
Europe
40. A middle-of-the-road government broke the Red-led strikes in France by taking all but one of these steps:
1. Passing a stringent strike-control law.
2. Calling 80,000 reservists into the Army.
3. Giving workers a cost-of-living bonus.
4. Arresting 1,000 on sabotage charges.
5. Outlawing the Communist Party.
41. Still unrepresented in the French government at year's end was the party that won the biggest vote in the last municipal elections, the:
1. Communists. 4. Radicals.
2. Popular Republicans. 5. R.P.F.
3. Socialists.
42. Municipal elections in Britain, meanwhile, had resulted in:
1. A surprising victory for Conservatives.
2. Further gains for the Labor Party.
3. A Communist gain of 112 seats.
4. The emergence of a strong new party --the British Union.
5. A smashing defeat for Liberals.
43. The main objective of the British Minister for Economic Affairs was to:
1. Increase British exports.
2. Import more from Canada and less from the U.S.
3. Decrease the hours a man will work each week.
4. Support Winston Churchill's plan for economic recovery.
5. Increase the production of automobiles and airplanes.
44. The "grave indiscretion" which forced Chancellor of the Exchequer Dalton to resign from the British Cabinet was:
1. Betting on horse races.
2. Patronizing a black-market restaurant.
3. Using his government information in wool speculation.
4. Sending money out of the country to his son in the U.S.
5. Letting budget secrets leak to the press.
45. In nationalizing the railroads, the Laborite government gave shareholders, in exchange for about $4 billion worth of British railway shares:
1. An equal amount of new gilt-edged securities bearing 3 % interest, guaranteed by the government.
2. Lifetime passes on all railroads.
3. Stock certificates guaranteeing pro rata shares of earnings until 1968.
4. About 1 billion pounds in cash, the rest in no-par common stock.
5. Government bonds bearing interest rates on a sliding scale, depending on an individual's holdings.
46. Deposed as Rumania's king, Michael I was met in Switzerland by his intended bride:
1. Princess Maria Hohenlohe of Bizonia.
2. Princess Anne of Bourbon-Parma.
3. Princess Helen of Tuscany.
4. Princess Eugenie of Saxony-Thuringia.
5. Princess Adelaide of Monaco-Ville.
Africa and the Far East
47. For the first time in the nation's history, a national election was held in November in:
1. Indonesia. 4. Japan.
2. Tibet. 5. Rhodesia.
3. China.
48. Meanwhile, in China, the Communists:
1. Were driven back into Mongolia.
2. Captured Nanking.
3. Captured Shanghai.
4. Were winning the Civil War.
5. Attacked U.S. naval installations at Tsingtao.
49. Mahatma Gandhi broke the last fast before his assassination on condition that the Moslems be guaranteed freedom to do all but one of the following:
1. Worship. 4. Intermarry with Hindus.
2. Travel. 5. Keep their own houses.
3. Earn a livelihood.
Canada and Latin America
50. Dr. Bernardo Alberto Houssay, the first South American to win a Nobel Prize in medicine, was an Argentine who had:
1. Fled as a refugee from Europe.
2. Been fired from the faculty of the University of Buenos Aires by Peron.
3. Threatened to move to the U.S.
4. Discovered penicillin.
5. Supported the Peron government.
51. Canada's Magdalen Islands recently assumed a new importance when they were discovered to have valuable:
1. Nickel deposits. 4. Phosphates.
2. Oil deposits. 5. Manganese ore.
3. Uranium.
52. Among other drastic restrictions, the citizens of Canada suddenly found that if they wanted to take a vacation in the U.S. they:
1. Could stay only 2 weeks.
2. Had to have dollars sent from across the border.
3. Could spend only $150 a year on such trips.
4. Had to have a visa for the first time in history.
5. Had to have a passport.
53. The Canadian government boldly set the Dominion's economy on a new course with sweeping pronouncements that placed restrictions on all but one of these imports from the U.S.:
1. Automobiles. 2. Radios. 3. Jewelry.
4. Fresh fruits and vegetables.
5. Woolens.
54. Panama's National Assembly turned down a treaty which would:
1. Permit U.S. engineers to make a preliminary investigation of a shorter canal route.
2. Give the U.S. 14 air bases on Panamanian territory.
3. Sanction a 20% overall tariff reduction on the goods of all other Latin American nations.
4. Extend to all U.N. members equal rights to use of the Panama Canal.
5. In effect, make Panama a satellite of Colombia.
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.
55. Here, late in 1947, the Big Four Foreign Ministers met, argued, resolved nothing.
56. UNESCO voted $100,000 for scientific study of this region.
57. Designated a secret proving ground for U.S. atomic-energy experiments.
58. Here the Communists put on a drive to woo the formerly despised middle classes.
59. Here economic advance and a big increase in population gave the people an increasing hunger for U.S. statehood.
60. A military coup led by Strong Man Phibun Songgram seized the government here in November.
61. Ceremonies held on December 2 marked the birth of the atomic bomb here five years ago.
62. Headquarters from the Arab League leaders threatened open warfare on all Jews.
63. Where U.N. General Assembly sat last fall.
64. 50,000 persons were reported skilled, another 100,000 driven from their homes in religious-political war here.
SCIENCE AND MEDICINE
65. Closest thing to producing life in a test tube was recently achieved by Nobel Prize Winner Wendell Meredith Stanley, who reported:
1. Reviving an apparently dead lung fish by chemical means.
2. Bringing back to life apparently dead virus.
3. Experiments in keeping alive animal organs for months after their severance from the animal.
4. The effects of certain chemical and atomic-energy combinations.
5. His successful efforts to produce pregnancy in rabbits by chemical means.
66. Working with corn seed that had been exposed to radio-activity in the Bikini bomb tests, Dr. Ernest G. Anderson of the California Institute of Technology found that:
1. The offspring were superior in size.
2. A large percentage of the offspring were abnormal.
3. There were no recognizable effects.
4. The radio-activity can be readily extracted.
5. Genes and chromosomes of the Japanese people at Hiroshima are not likely to be affected.
67. All over the U.S., early in November, scientists were hunting especially bred mice because:
1. The demand had gone up with more funds available for cancer research.
2. A new crop of Ph.D.'s were setting up laboratories all over the country.
3. The leading U.S. source of experimental mice at Bar Harbor, Maine, had been destroyed by fire.
4. For some mysterious reason mice died all over the U.S.
5. Mice were being used in large quantities to study atomic-bomb effects.
68. From Columbia University came an announcement indicating that a new drug, SN 13, 274, used with quinine, permanently cures 95% of all cases of:
1. Pneumonia. 4. Relapsing malaria.
2. Heart ailments. 5. Influenza.
3. Venereal diseases.
69. Medical statistics on Army pilots show that flyers who have had a crackup:
1. Should be barred from further flying because of the psychological effects.
2. Make better flyers than those who have never had an accident.
3. Never want to fly again.
4. Are very likely to crack up again if they fly too soon, and alone.
5. Should never have been allowed to fly in the first place, in most instances.
70. One of the most talked-about scientific studies of the times is Alfred Charles Kinsey's report:
1. How Men Behave.
2. Studies in the Psychology of Sex.
3. New Introduction to Biology.
4. Sexual Behavior of the Human Male.
5. Behaviorism.
71. A potential new weapon, used experimentally on mice, cockroaches and mosquitoes by the Army Signal Corps at State College, Pa., employs:
1. High-pitched sound waves.
2. Radar.
3. Invisible light beams.
4. Projected radio-active beams.
5. Strong odors which paralyze the olfactory nerve.
72. Speaking to 600 doctors and hospital administrators in Manhattan recently, Bernard M. Baruch:
1. Advised them to give up their opposition to compulsory government health insurance.
2. Cited the shortcomings of U.S. medicine in the last war.
3. Condemned socialized medicine as a "step toward Sovietizing America."
4. Advocated more and more emphasis on psychiatry.
5. Termed medical training "100 years behind the times."
73. New Nobel Prize Winner Sir Edward Appleton's probings in the upper atmosphere before World War II led in time's nick to Britain's secret weapon:
1. Artificial fog. 4. Supersonic walls.
2. Weather control. 5. Death rays.
3. Radar.
74. Without a cent of backing, famed Dr. Frederic Wertham launched for Harlem Negroes a now successful:
1. Cancer laboratory.
2. Psychiatric clinic.
3. Rapid treatment centers for VD.
4. Tuberculosis sanatorium.
5. Institute of Gerontology.
75. Experiments on diets of mice by a trio of University of Minnesota physiologists support this conclusion:
1. Eat less and live longer.
2. Alcohol, used habitually, hardens the arteries.
3. Cancer can be cured with a proper diet.
4. Color blindness almost always results from poor diet.
5. If a man eats whatever he wants, his diet over a period of time will be well-balanced.
76. The world's biggest cancer center, which calls itself the first "cancer university," is:
1. University of Chicago.
2. Harvard Medical School.
3. Manhattan's Memorial Hospital.
4. The Princeton Institute for Advanced Study.
5. The California Institute of Technology.
77. Refusing to treat 12,000 city employees except as private patients, more than 900 of 1,000 doctors resigned in the only governmental compulsory health-insurance system in the U.S., located in:
1. New York City. 4. Boston. 2. Chicago. 5. San Francisco. 3. Los Angeles.
LITERATURE AND THE ARTS
78. No other U.S. family ever used its leisure to make so much intellectual and literary hay as that described in F. O. Matthiessen's new book:
1. The Adams's of Massachusetts
2. The Lowells.
3. The Brownings.
4. The James Family.
5. The Bennetts.
79. A distinguishing feature of movies and popular songs in 1947 was the:
1. Emphasis on renaissance themes.
2. Daring experiments with new forms.
3. Post-war French influence.
4. Revival of old favorites.
5. Fact that most of the hits originated in England.
80. Rosalind Russell and Michael Redgrave take the leads in the movie version of Eugene O'Neill's somber:
1. Eastward in Eden.
2. Foxes of Harrow.
3. Dark Passage.
4. Mourning Becomes Electra.
5. Monsieur Verdoux.
81. The Partners in Democracy in John Bakeless' new book are:
1. Jefferson and Hamilton.
2. Washington and Jefferson.
3. Roosevelt and Truman.
4. Lincoln and Wilson.
5. Lewis and Clark.
82. U.S. literary life shortly before and after the Civil War is the subject of this recent and distinguished volume:
1. The World of Abraham Lincoln--Carl Sandburg.
2. American Renaissance -- Bernard DeVoto.
3. The Times of Melville and Whitman--Van Wyck Brooks.
4. Middle Days--Charles and Mary Beard.
5. The Flowering of the South--William Faulkner.
83. The Pepsi-Cola award, four years a major U.S. art event, went this fall to:
1. Country Tenement--Henry Kallem.
2. Pretty Girl Milking the Cow--Ben Shahn.
3. I Dream I Dwelt in Marble Halls--George Belcher.
4. Flying Demi Tasses--Salvador Dali.
5. Crazy Horse--Korozak Ziolkowski.
84. Gertrude Stein's Four in America is an inquiry about the American soul as exemplified in all but one of these four great men:
1. U.S. Grant. 4. George Washington.
2. Wilbur Wright. 5. Woodrow Wilson.
3. Henry James.
85. Golden Multitudes by Frank Luther Mott, dean of the University of Missouri's famed journalism school, is a record of:
1. Outstanding U.S. movies since The Birth of a Nation.
2. American theater since East Lynne.
3. The writings of leading American philosophers.
4. Church history since Roger Bacon.
5. Nearly three centuries of U.S. best-selling books.
86. Despite Legion of Decency disapproval, this movie became a top box office attraction:
1. Dark Fury. 4. Song of Love.
2. Possessed. 5. Forever Amber.
3. Body and Soul.
87. The book Where I Stand sets forth the views of Presidential aspirant:
1. Taft. 4. Vandenberg.
2. Dewey. 5. Wallace.
3. Stassen.
88. Written from records and shorthand notes, Speaking Frankly is a book in which:
1. Robert A. Taft gives his political credo.
2. James A. Farley recounts his long political association with F. D. R.
3. James Byrnes tells of his diplomatic struggles as Secretary of State.
4. Henry A. Wallace offers a plan for world peace.
5. Trygve Lie makes a strong plea for greater support of U,N.
89. The Chicago Symphony's conductor, Dr. Artur Rodzinski:
1. Introduced a "lost" Chopin cello concerto.
2. Got fired.
3. Resigned from the A.F. of M. in a huff.
4. Signed a 7-year television contract.
5. Created a furore by reviewing one of his own concerts in the Tribune.
90. While in San Francisco, a leading critic called the debut of violinist Tossy Spivakovsky as the greatest since that, 30 years ago, of:
1. Yehudi Menuhin. 4. Sascha Guitry.
2. Albert Spalding. 5. Jascha Heifetz.
3. Toscha Seidel.
91. George Wythe, John Blair, James Wilson, Jacob Broom, and Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer (mentioned in Carl Van Doren's recent book, The Great Rehearsal) were all:
1. Notorious pirates of the Spanish Main.
2. Unsuccessful candidates for Vice President in the early 19th Century.
3. Members of the first association of Philadelphia master printers.
4. Signers of the Declaration of Independence.
5. Members of the Constitutional Convention.
92. Theater audiences thrilled to Judith Anderson's portrayal of a woman who murders her own children to avenge her husband in the grisly tragedy:
1. Mourning Becomes Electra.
2. Oedipus. 3. Caesar and Cleopatra.
4. Medea. 5. Crime and Punishment.
93. In Mexico City, artist Siqueiros showed his latest exhibition, which contained all but one of the following:
1. Abstractions revealing his growing interest in geometry.
2. Industrial enamels sprayed on Masonite.
3. A forceful study called "Our Image" of a giant with a boulder for a head.
4. A series of panels on memorable incidents in Mexico's revolution.
5. A portrait of his friend Orozco sitting in an electrical storm.
94. Beautiful European actress introduced to American movie audiences in The Paradine Case was:
1. Valli. 4. Josette Day.
2 Arletty. 5. Pamela Kellino.
3. Madeleine Sologne.
95. Man of the year in show business with two outstanding Broadway hits and two of Hollywood's most-talked-about films to his credit, was 38-year-old Director:
1. Edward Dmytryk.
2. Elia Kazan.
3. David O. Selznick.
4. Curtis Bernhardt.
5. George S. Kaufman.
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