Into Manhattan last week trooped 221 delegates to the National Contesters' Association's fourth annual convention. This week, as a polite gesture to the assembled contesters, CBS's Professor Quiz will entertain on his program two hotshots of the organization: paper-thin, 28-year-old Everett Lane, founder and past president, and Joan Lambert, head of the All-American Contestar School of Willow Grove, Pa., which has about 2,000 students.
Founder Lane started National Contesters' Association to promote good will among the addicts of a pastime that offered in 1939 a potential take of $54,000,000. A general storekeeper from Mine Run, Va., he made his first killing in...
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