Radio: Erring Guest

When confident Impresario Dan Golenpaul offered $500 to anyone who could completely stump his Information Please experts on all parts of a question, he figured on losing once in every five programs. For ten straight programs, the experts parried the thrusts. The break came last week on No. 11.

The question: "Can you identify these characters from novels that were later made into movies?" Two of the misses were routine, the third was most embarrassing to the evening's guest star: "In the book he disappears off a boat, in the movie he is destroyed in a burning mill." The answer that nobody...

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