(8 of 10)
1. Executive Suite.
2. Yankee Pasha.
3. It Should Happen to You.
4. The Final Test.
5. A Place in the Sun.
85. A significant and encouraging development in the theater during the last season was the fact that plays like The Golden Apple, Bullfight and Madame, Will You Walk had successful New York runs despite:
1. Universally bad reviews.
2. The absence of big-name stars in the casts.
3. Picketing by stage unions.
4. Amateur direction and production.
5. Low-cost productions in off-Broadway theaters.
86. Roars of outrage from opponents of modern architecture greeted the proposal to build a Frank Lloyd Wright house:
1. In Williamsburg, Va.
2. On the Boston Common.
3. On the Grand Canal in Venice.
4. In Seville opposite the Cathedral.
5. In London's Trafalgar Square.
87. "His name will remain supreme and his achievement immortally revered," wrote Critic Olin Downes in the retirement of this great musician:
1. Charles Munch.
2. Arturo Toscanini.
3. Leopold Stokowski.
4. Dmitri Mitropoulos.
5. Igor Stravinsky.
88. An earlier verdict that he "was about washed up" was reversed when Frank Sinatra got a bestseller for eleven straight weeks in his recording of:
1. Love Affair.
2. I've Got the World on a String.
3. They Didn't Believe Me.
4. Young at Heart.
5. Why Didn't You Tell Me?
89. Started as a British TV drama, moved on to long, successful runs on the London stage and Broadway, and now made into a first-rate movie is:
1. The Country Girl.
2. Catch a Thief.
3. The Cobweb.
4. Dial M for Murder.
5. Adventures of Robinson Crusoe.
Press
90. Top Pulitzer Prize for the most "disinterested and meritorious public service rendered by a U.S. newspaper" during 1953 went to:
1. Long Island's Newsday.
2. New York Daily News.
3. New York Times.
4. New York Herald Tribune.
5. St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
91. About as unlike as two metropolitan dailies could be, these two newspapers were merged in one of the biggest newspaper deals in U.S. history:
1. New York Times and Herald Tribune.
1. Chicago Tribune and News.
3. San Francisco Chronicle and News.
4. Los Angeles Times and Daily News.
5. Washington Post and Times-Herald.
92. On the second Friday in August, TIME Inc. will bring out a new weekly magazine devoted to:
1. Politics.
2. Home life.
3. Religion.
4. Education.
5. Sports.
Radio & TV
93. General Foods celebrated its 25th anniversary with a 90-minute TV extravaganza recreating the "great moments" from the musicals of:
1. Schubert.
2. Gilbert and Sullivan.
3. Rodgers and Hammerstein.
4.Richard Strauss.
5.Mozart.
94. Except for rare ones, TV quiz shows have a definite audience ceiling. The rarest of the rare ones is You Bet Your Life, featuring:
1. Fred Allen.