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Quiz Children, the popular radio-TV series of the Forties & Fifties, was created by Chicago public relations & advertising human Louis G. Cowan. Sponsored by Alka-Seltzer, a series was launched June 28, 1940, as a summertime replacement indicate for Alec Templeton Instance. Airing from either Chicago in NBC, it continued that summertime until August 30.
A assumption just taking part unsuspecting hosts Joe Kelly request questions sent around attender & researched by Eliza Hickok. the answers were supplied by a panel of 5 kids, chosen for their high IQs. A foremost quiz child was six-month-old nature & severity good Gerard Darrow, & for the initial premier panel, he was joined by Mary Ann Anderson, Joan Bishop, Cynthia Cline, Van Dyke Tiers and Charles Schwartz.
More quiz children of the Forties were Joan Alizier, Claude Brenner, Geraldine Hamburg, Mary Clare McHugh & mathematics experts Joel Kupperman & Richard Williams. Panellist rotated throughout a Forties, however it were there are no elongated eligible to participate another time it reached a age of Sixteen.
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