A grown-up quiz program outgrew the lonely forenoon and joined the busy night air last week. A rising chorus of fan mail persuaded BBC and the Blue network to shift their Transatlantic Quiz from Saturday mornings to 10 p.m. Tuesdays (E.W.T.), and to boost the show from 15 minutes to a solid half hour. In its new spot Transatlantic will compete with Bob Hopebut the audience appeal is hardly the same.
For ten months Manhattan's tweedy jack-of-all letters, Christopher Morley and Britain's critic-historian (and authority on U.S. matters), Denis Brogan, with a partner...
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