Information Please did its first broadcast last week (NBC Mondays 10:30 p.m. E.W.T.) for its new sponsor: Heinz (57 varieties). First guest for the picklemaker was wry, omniscient Fred Allen. He was very funny. He answered every query he could get his rasping voice on and, substituting for Questioner Clifton Fadiman in the second half, he stumped Experts Fadiman, Kieran, Levant and Adams with quotations from Philosophers Spencer, Kant and Hegel.
"I have always wanted an encyclopedia,"* cackled Allen, who had submitted the question himself. "You can give the $57 to charity. Charity...
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