Radio: Session Sold

Some such fascination as draws Spaniards to bull fights draws a large, weekly audience to NEC's five-month-old questionnaire program, Information Please. A number of powerful minds are let into the ring, are baited, stung, encouraged, wounded, sometimes left unscathed by a series of pointed questions. Matador of this intellectual bull session is sharp-witted Clifton Fadiman, book reviewer for The New Yorker. Permanent bulls have been Franklin Pierce ("F. P. A.") Adams and the New York Times'?, amazingly broadly informed Sportswriter John Kieran. Paul de Kruif, Stuart Chase, Marc Connelly, John Gunther, Alice...

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