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62 relations: Alexander Woollcott, Barry Jones (Australian politician), Basil Rathbone, Bill Leyden, Boris Karloff, Canada Dry, CBS, Clare Boothe Luce, Clifton Fadiman, Dan Golenpaul, Deems Taylor, Directory assistance, Dorothy Parker, Edward Mann (Australian politician), Encyclopædia Britannica, Eric Welch's Sports Album, Film, Franklin P. Adams, Fred Allen, Game show, George S. Kaufman, Gilbert and Sullivan, It Pays to Be Ignorant, Jackie Robinson, Jan Struther, John Kieran, John McCaffery, Leonard Bernstein, Literature, Los Angeles, Lucky Strike, Major Broadcasting Network (Australia), Malapropism, Mike Wallace, Music, Musical Chairs (1955 TV series), Natural history, NBC, New York City, Orson Welles, Oscar Levant, Panel show, Philip Crosbie Morrison, Poetry, Popular culture, Radio, Rex Stout, RKO Pictures, Ruth Gordon, S. J. Perelman, ..., Short film, Sigmund Spaeth, Simon & Schuster, Sport, Switchboard operator, The Fred Waring Show, Time Almanac with Information Please, War bond, West Coast of the United States, World War II, 2CH, 3DB (Melbourne). Expand index (12 more) »
Alexander Woollcott
Alexander Humphreys Woollcott (January 19, 1887 – January 23, 1943) was an American critic and commentator for The New Yorker magazine and a member of the Algonquin Round Table.
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Barry Jones (Australian politician)
Barry Owen Jones, (born 11 October 1932), is an Australian polymath, writer, lawyer, social activist, quiz champion and former politician.
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Basil Rathbone
Philip St.
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Bill Leyden
William "Bill" Leyden (February 1, 1917 in Chicago, Illinois – March 11, 1970 in Hollywood, California) was a television game show host and announcer who emceed six game shows, including It Could Be You (1956–61), Your First Impression (1962–64, with Dennis James), and You're Putting Me On (1969).
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Boris Karloff
William Henry Pratt (23 November 1887 – 2 February 1969), better known by his stage name Boris Karloff, was an English actor who was primarily known for his roles in horror films.
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Canada Dry
Canada Dry is a brand of soft drinks owned since 2008 by the American Dr Pepper Snapple Group.
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CBS
CBS (an initialism of the network's former name, the Columbia Broadcasting System) is an American English language commercial broadcast television network that is a flagship property of CBS Corporation.
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Clare Boothe Luce
Clare Boothe Luce (March 10, 1903 – October 9, 1987) was an American author, politician, U.S. Ambassador and public conservative figure.
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Clifton Fadiman
Clifton Paul "Kip" Fadiman (May 15, 1904 – June 20, 1999) was an American intellectual, author, editor, radio and television personality. He began his work with the radio, and switched to television later in his career.
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Dan Golenpaul
Dan Golenpaul (1900 – February 13, 1974) was the creator of Information Please, a popular American radio quiz show which aired on NBC.
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Deems Taylor
Joseph Deems Taylor (December 22, 1885 – July 3, 1966) was an American composer, music critic, and promoter of classical music.
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Directory assistance
In telecommunications, directory assistance or directory enquiries is a phone service used to find out a specific telephone number and/or address of a residence, business, or government entity.
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Dorothy Parker
Dorothy Parker (née Rothschild; August 22, 1893 – June 7, 1967) was an American poet, writer, critic, and satirist, best known for her wit, wisecracks, and eye for 20th-century urban foibles.
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Edward Mann (Australian politician)
Edward Alexander Mann (11 August 1874 – 15 November 1951) was a Nationalist member of the Australian House of Representatives and radio commentator. Mann was born in Mount Gambier, South Australia and was the brother of Frederick Mann, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Victoria from 1935 to 1944. He was educated at the University of Melbourne and was appointed government analyst in Western Australia in 1895 and set up the government laboratory in Perth. In 1901 he married Estelle Frances Leonie Hicks. He was appointed to the Commonwealth Advisory Council for Science and Industry from 1916 to 1920, although his participation was limited, partly due to the distance between Perth and Melbourne.
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Encyclopædia Britannica
The Encyclopædia Britannica (Latin for "British Encyclopaedia"), published by Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., is a general knowledge English-language encyclopaedia.
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Eric Welch's Sports Album
Eric Welch's Sports Album was an Australian television series which aired from 24 January to 1 August 1957.
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Film
A film, also called a movie, motion picture, moving pícture, theatrical film, or photoplay, is a series of still images that, when shown on a screen, create the illusion of moving images.
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Franklin P. Adams
Franklin Pierce Adams (November 15, 1881 – March 23, 1960) was an American columnist known as Franklin P. Adams and by his initials F.P.A..
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Fred Allen
John Florence Sullivan (May 31, 1894 – March 17, 1956), known professionally as Fred Allen, was an American comedian.
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Game show
A game show is a type of radio, television, or stage show in which contestants, individually or as teams, play a game which involves answering questions or solving puzzles, usually for money or prizes.
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George S. Kaufman
George Simon Kaufman (November 16, 1889 – June 2, 1961) was an American playwright, theatre director and producer, humorist, and drama critic.
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Gilbert and Sullivan
Gilbert and Sullivan refers to the Victorian-era theatrical partnership of the dramatist W. S. Gilbert (1836–1911) and the composer Arthur Sullivan (1842–1900) and to the works they jointly created.
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It Pays to Be Ignorant
It Pays to Be Ignorant was a radio comedy show which maintained its popularity during a nine-year run on three networks for such sponsors as Philip Morris, Chrysler, and DeSoto.
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Jackie Robinson
Jack Roosevelt Robinson (January 31, 1919 – October 24, 1972) was an American professional baseball player who became the first African American to play in Major League Baseball (MLB) in the modern era.
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Jan Struther
Jan Struther was the pen name of Joyce Anstruther, later Joyce Maxtone Graham and finally Joyce Placzek (June 6, 1901 – July 20, 1953), an English writer remembered for her character Mrs. Miniver and a number of hymns, such as "Lord of All Hopefulness".
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John Kieran
John Francis Kieran (August 2, 1892 – December 9, 1981) was an American author, journalist, amateur naturalist and radio and television personality.
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John McCaffery
John McCaffery (1913–1983), also known as John K. M. McCaffery, was an American television host who appeared on many game shows and talk shows during the 1940s and 1950s including Americana, Television Screen Magazine, What's the Story, One Minute Please, and Author Meets the Critics.
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Leonard Bernstein
Leonard Bernstein (August 25, 1918 – October 14, 1990) was an American composer, conductor, author, music lecturer, and pianist.
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Literature
Literature, most generically, is any body of written works.
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Los Angeles
Los Angeles (Spanish for "The Angels";; officially: the City of Los Angeles; colloquially: by its initials L.A.) is the second-most populous city in the United States, after New York City.
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Lucky Strike
Lucky Strike is an American brand of cigarettes owned by the British American Tobacco groups.
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Major Broadcasting Network (Australia)
The Major Broadcasting Network was an important part of the Australian broadcasting scene from 1938 until the 1970s.
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Malapropism
A malapropism (also called a malaprop or Dogberryism) is the use of an incorrect word in place of a word with a similar sound, resulting in a nonsensical, sometimes humorous utterance.
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Mike Wallace
Myron Leon "Mike" Wallace (May 9, 1918 – April 7, 2012) was an American journalist, game show host, actor, and media personality.
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Music
Music is an art form and cultural activity whose medium is sound organized in time.
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Musical Chairs (1955 TV series)
Musical Chairs was an NBC primetime game show that ran from July 9 to September 17, 1955; The host was Bill Leyden and the series featured voice actor Mel Blanc, composer Johnny Mercer, and orchestra leader Bobby Troup as regular panelists.
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Natural history
Natural history is a domain of inquiry involving organisms including animals, fungi and plants in their environment; leaning more towards observational than experimental methods of study.
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NBC
The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) is an American English language commercial broadcast television network that is a flagship property of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast.
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New York City
The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.
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Orson Welles
George Orson Welles (May 6, 1915 – October 10, 1985) was an American actor, director, writer, and producer who worked in theatre, radio, and film.
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Oscar Levant
Oscar Levant (December 27, 1906August 14, 1972) was an American concert pianist, composer, music conductor, bestselling author, radio game show panelist and personality, television talk show host, and actor. He was as famous for his mordant character and witticisms, on the radio and in movies and television, as for his music.
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Panel show
A panel show or panel game is a radio or television game show in which a panel of celebrities participates.
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Philip Crosbie Morrison
Philip Crosbie Morrison (19 December 1900 – 1 March 1958), generally known as "Crosbie Morrison", was an Australian naturalist, educator, journalist, broadcaster and conservationist.
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Poetry
Poetry (the term derives from a variant of the Greek term, poiesis, "making") is a form of literature that uses aesthetic and rhythmic qualities of language—such as phonaesthetics, sound symbolism, and metre—to evoke meanings in addition to, or in place of, the prosaic ostensible meaning.
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Popular culture
Popular culture (also called pop culture) is generally recognized as a set of the practices, beliefs, and objects that are dominant or ubiquitous in a society at a given point in time.
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Radio
Radio is the technology of using radio waves to carry information, such as sound, by systematically modulating properties of electromagnetic energy waves transmitted through space, such as their amplitude, frequency, phase, or pulse width.
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Rex Stout
Rex Todhunter Stout (December 1, 1886 – October 27, 1975) was an American writer noted for his detective fiction.
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RKO Pictures
RKO Pictures was an American film production and distribution company.
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Ruth Gordon
Ruth Gordon Jones (October 30, 1896 – August 28, 1985) was an American film, stage, and television actress, as well as a screenwriter and playwright.
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S. J. Perelman
Sidney Joseph "S.
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Short film
A short film is any motion picture not long enough to be considered a feature film.
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Sigmund Spaeth
Sigmund Gottfried Spaeth (April 10, 1885 – November 12, 1965) was an American musicologist who traced the sources and origins of popular songs to their folk and classical roots.
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Simon & Schuster
Simon & Schuster, Inc., a subsidiary of CBS Corporation, is an American publishing company founded in New York City in 1924 by Richard Simon and Max Schuster.
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Sport
Sport (British English) or sports (American English) includes all forms of competitive physical activity or games which, through casual or organised participation, aim to use, maintain or improve physical ability and skills while providing enjoyment to participants, and in some cases, entertainment for spectators.
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Switchboard operator
In the early days of telephony, through roughly the 1960s, companies used manual telephone switchboards, and switchboard operators connected calls by inserting a pair of phone plugs into the appropriate jacks.
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The Fred Waring Show
The Fred Waring Show is an American television musical variety show that ran from April 17, 1949 to May 30, 1954 on CBS.
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Time Almanac with Information Please
Time Almanac with Information Please was an almanac published in the United States.
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War bond
War bonds are debt securities issued by a government to finance military operations and other expenditure in times of war.
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West Coast of the United States
The West Coast or Pacific Coast is the coastline along which the contiguous Western United States meets the North Pacific Ocean.
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World War II
World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.
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2CH
2CH is a commercial radio station in Sydney, at 1170 kHz AM.
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3DB (Melbourne)
3DB was a Melbourne radio station that opened in 1927, changed its name to 3TT in 1988, and now operates on the FM band as KIIS 101.1.
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