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1. The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody—Will Cuppy.
2. The Disenchanted—Budd Schulberg.
3. A Fearful Joy—Joyce Gary.
4. The Trouble of One House—Brendan Gill.
5. The Twenty-Fifth Hour—Virgil Gheorghiu.
70. From a huge cache of papers discovered in various Irish and Scottish castles, Yale scholars are editing a 45-volume series which begins with:
1. The Education of Dr. Samuel Johnson.
2. The Thirteen Clocks.
3. Boswell's London Journal 1762-1763.
4. Britain's Royal Family, Vol. I.
5. Shakespeare's Boyhood.
71. His death in November deprived the world of one of its greatest:
1. Sculptors.
2. Atomic scientists.
3. Mathematicians.
4. Playwrights.
5. Composers.
72. With John Gielgud and Pamela Brown playing the leads, Broadway is now hearing exciting blank verse in:
1. No Lady Is a Witch.
2. The Witch Is No Lady.
3. Bell, Book and Candle.
4. The Lady's Not for Burning.
5. The Lady's Burning Me.
73. Cities all over the U.S. this season heard Sir Thomas Beecham conduct the:
1. New York Philharmonic Society.
2. Philadelphia Orchestra.
3. Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.
4. Boston Symphony Orchestra.
5. San Francisco Symphony Orchestra.
74. A review of this concert artist's singing prompted an abusive letter to the Washington Post's Music Critic from:
1. The Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barber Shop Quartet Singing in America (S.P.E.B.S.Q.S. A.).
2. Her husband, Bob Hope.
3. Rudolf Bing.
4. Harry Truman.
5. John L. Lewis.
75. A calculated affront to poetry which causes the teeth of serious poets to gnash is a recent volume of doggerel, Family Reunion, by that whimsical poetaster:
1. Carl Sandburg.
2. Robert Frost.
3. T.S. Eliot.
4. B.S. Pulley.
5. Ogden Nash.
76. Adapted by Sidney Kingsley from the powerful novel of the same name, the new Broadway play Darkness at Noon tells a convincing story of:
1. A post-atomic-war world.
2. The Hollywood star system.
3. Communist trials.
4. The power shortage.
5. Nuclear fission.
77. Death took this author, who created all but one of these still-living fictional characters:
1. George Follansbee Babbitt.
2. Sam Dodsworth.
3. H.M. Pulham, Esq.
4. Fred Cornplow.
5. Elmer Gantry.
Radio and Television
78. U.S. radio and TV editors voted her television's "Woman of the Year" for 1950:
1. Gloria Swanson.
2. Faye Emerson.
3. Anne Baxter.
4. Tallulah Bankhead.
5. Imogene Coca.
79. Featured in the industry-wide squabble over color television were all but one of these events:
1. The FCC approved the CBS system.
2. The FCC canceled RCA's authorization for experimental telecasts during regular broadcasting hours.
3. RCA showed newsmen and businessmen its improved system.
4. In a sudden reversal, FCC favored RCA's "dot sequential" system.
5. The Radio-TV Manufacturers Association launched a nationwide publicity campaign against CBS color.