Every successful TV quiz show should have on its four-member panel 1) an eager beaver, 2) a funnyman, 3) a seriocomic (i.e., someone not quite as eager as the eager beaver and not quite as consciously funny as the funnyman), and 4) a guest or representative citizen.
The top eager beaver is What's My Line?'s Dorothy Kilgallen, who often seems to have patterned her technique on that of tenacious Lawrence Spivak of Meet the Press. Hearst-Columnist Kilgallen is distinguished by her no-nonsense approach and her relentless slicing away of extraneous issues in solving such epic equations as whether a contestant is a...
To continue reading:
or
Log-In
