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1. Characters in recent children's books.
2. Televised puppet shows.
3. Characters in a new children's opera by Britain's Benjamin Britten.
4. Characters in "Allen's Alley."
5. Western movies, which have led the year's moneymakers.
75. A shoestring documentary film, which audience enthusiasm boosted into national distribution, is the poignant Story of a young Negro boy:
1. Act of Violence. 4. The Accused.
2. The Quiet One. 5. Chicken Every Sunday. 3. Johnny Belinda. Sunday.
76. Playwright Arthur Miller's tragedy of an American who loses out by trying too hard to win is:
1. Death of a Salesman.
2. They Knew What They Wanted.
3. The Big Knife.
4. Two Blind Mice.
5. Forward the Heart.
77. Influenced by last season's success at denouncing antiSemitism, Hollywood tackled another difficult subject:
1. The cold war.
2. The menace of venereal diseases.
3. The Negro problem.
4. U.S. morals.
5. Tax evasion.
78. In Beau James, Gene Fowler tells the story of New York's lovable, gregarious ex-Mayor:
1. McKee. 4. Whalen.
2. LaGuardia. 5. Moses.
3. Walker.
79. The Oscar award to Hamlet as the best film of 1948 was notable because:
1. The film was made on a budget of only $250,000.
2. It was the first foreign movie so honored.
3. Two of the judges resigned in violent disagreement with the choice.
4. The film's producer refused to accept the award.
5. It was the fifth win for M-G-M in as many years.
80. The most ambition film yet made for television is based on:
1. Robert Sherwood's Roosevelt and Hopkins.
2. General Eisenhower's Crusade in Europe.
3. Winston Churchill's war speeches.
4. The development of atomic power.
5. South Pacific.
81. Clifton Webb resumes his supercilious career as an all-round genius in:
1. The Setup.
2. Devil in the Flesh.
3. Quartet.
4. The Barkleys of Broadway.
5. Mr. Belvedere Goes to College.
82. A few days after the 1948 Oscar awards by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences:
1. President Jean Hersholt announced that no further awards would be made until 1951.
2. Sam Goldwyn sought a court injunction to prevent future awards.
3. A disappointed actress committed suicide.
4. Major studios announced that they were withdrawing support from the Academy.
5. A competing Academy was organized by independent producers.
83. Champion, the movie based on Ring Lardner's story of a middleweight heel, brought sudden stardom to Actor:
2. Van Johnson.
2. Paul Stewart.
3. Arthur Kennedy.
4. Stephen McNally.
5. Kirk Douglas.
84. En route home after a successful U.S. tour was one of the world's finest collections of old masterpieces, which formerly hung in:
1. London's National Gallery.
2. Berlin's Kaiser Friedrich Museum.
3. London's Tate Gallery.
4. The Louvre, in Paris.
5. Vienna's Academy of Art.
Sport
85. In March, Joe Louis gave up the heavyweight title he defended 25 times, and:
1. Joined the Army.