State of the Union
(THIS TEST COVERS THE PERIOD NOVEMBER 1953 TO FEBRUARY 1954)
Prepared by The Editors of TIME in collaboration with Alvin C. Eurich and Elmo C. Wilson
(Copyright 1954 by TIME Inc.)
This test is to help TIME readers and their friends check their knowledge of current affairs. In recording answers, you needn't mark opposite the questions. Use one of the answer sheets printed with the test: sheets for four persons are provided. After taking the test, check your replies against the correct answers printed on the last page of the test, entering the number of right answers as your score on the answer sheet. For most of the 105 test questions, five possible answers are given. You are to select the correct answer and put its number on the answer sheet next to the number of that question. Example: 0. The President of the U.S. is: 1. Nixon 3. Eisenhower 5. Stevenson
2. Hoover 4. Truman
Eisenhower, of course, is the correct answer. Since this question is numbered 0, the number 3--standing for Eisenhower--has been placed at the right of 0 on the answer sheet.
NATIONAL AFFAIRS
1. Reviewing his first year in a radio-TV address, President Eisenhower promised that his "Administration would not tolerate": 1. Higher farm prices.
2. Any further rise in the national debt.
3. Unionization of federal employees.
4. A boom-and-bust America.
5. Sabotage of his program by Democrats in federal jobs. 2. A few days later in his State of the Union message the President noted "a great strategic change in the world during the past year"--the fact that: 1. Russia was becoming easier to negotiate with under Malenkov.
2. The West was gaining the initiative.
3. U.S. air bases now virtually encircle the Soviet empire.
4. European unity was a virtual fact.
5. Atomic weapons make land armies practically unnecessary. 3. In broad general terms he also recommended all but one of these: 1. Fewer arbitrary curbs on world trade.
2. Sharing with our allies certain knowledge of nuclear weapons.
3. Retention for this year of the regular corporation taxes and the excise taxes on liquor and gasoline.
4. Suffrage for District of Columbia residents.
5. Retention of unemployment and old-age insurance on its present base.
Foreign Affairs
4. Earlier, in a dramatic U.N. Assembly speech Ike offered to: 1. Abandon the veto.
2. Contribute U.S. forces to a U.N. army.
3. Consign atomic material to a U.N. pool for peaceful uses.
4. Double U.S. contributions to the U.,N. if the other Big Powers would too.
5. Extend technical assistance to Russia and her satellites. 5. Soviet reaction to this offer was to: 1. Assail it, then agree to discuss it.
2. Call it "first order statesmanship."
3. Disregard it completely.
4. Flatly refuse to consider it.
5. Give a weasel-word reply. 6. In the foreign relations field Ike had plenty of trouble in his own party over the Bricker Amendment, which had been designed to: 1. Extend the Monroe Doctrine to Asia.
2. Bar aid to any but democratic nations.
3. Forbid the sending of U.S. troops abroad without specific Congressional approval.
4. Transfer many of the State Department's functions to the Department of Defense.
5. Restrict the making of U.S. domestic law by international treaty.
Armed Forces
7. Overshadowing U.S. defense policy was the somber fact re-emphasized by President Eisenhower that: 1. We couldn't have both guns and butter.
2. Atomic bomb production was leading the nation into bankruptcy.
3. Europe would fall to any Russian attack within six weeks.
4. There was no way of stopping the Red conquest of Asia short of atomic war.
5. The Soviets have the capability of atomic attack on the U.S. 8. In line with proposals by the Joint Chiefs of Staff the President announced that the U.S. will soon withdraw two divisions from: 1. Pakistan. 4. Ryukyu and
2. West Germany. Bonin Islands.
3. Korea. 5. Japan. 9. Corporal Claude J. Batchelor, who had gobbled up the Communist line almost from the day in 1951 when he was taken prisoner in Korea, changed his mind and asked to be repatriated after: 1. His mother visited him.
2. His college classmates wrote letters.
3. Eisenhower sent him a special appeal.
4. Vice President Nixon talked with him.
5. His Japanese wife wrote to him. 10. The U.S. Navy launched the Nautilus, the first atomic-powered: 1. Aircraft carrier. 4. Landing craft.
2. Battleship. 5. Hospital ship.
3. Submarine.
Agriculture & Labor
11. In his farm message to Congress the President urged: 1. Elimination of all price supports.
2. Continuation of rigid price supports.
3. A flexible scale of price supports in 1955.
4. Immediate release of farm products now in federal storage bins.
5. Sale of surpluses to Eastern Europe. 12. Among the changes recommended by Ike in the Taft-Hartley Act was the proposal to: 1. Tighten the secondary boycott ban.
2. Require unions who benefit from the check-off to pay income taxes.
3. Forbid NLRB assistance to unions with Communist officers.
4. Legalize compulsory arbitration of all strikes affecting national defense.
5. Have Government representatives supervise secret votes of union members on whether they want to strike. 13. Elected by acclamation for a second year as president of the C.I.O.: 1. Walter Reuther. 4. David McDonald 2. William Green. aid.
3. George Meany. 5. John L. Lewis!
The White Case
14. Attorney General Brownell, reviving charges that the late Harry Dexter White, an official in the Roosevelt-Truman Administration, was a Russian spy, asserted in a Chicago speech that former President Truman had: 1. Ignored J. Edgar Hoover's advice.
2. Promoted White even after his Communist record had been reported to the White House.
3. Been guilty of disloyalty.
4. Deliberately blocked an FBI investigation of White.
5. Refused to look at FBI reports on any loyalty case. 15. Truman, as an ex-President, refused to honor a Congressional subpoena to testify on the case, but he discussed it on a nationwide broadcast, claiming: 1. White was loyal.
2. White was picked for International Fund job by bankers.
3. White assured him charges were false.
4. He let White's appointment stand
rather than risk endangering the investigation then under way.
5. Brownell was just trying to divert attention from his own mismanagement of the Justice Department. 16. In a radio-TV reply to Truman, McCarthy attacked the ex-President and also sharply criticized: 1. The Supreme Court.
2. General Marshall.
3. Adlai Stevenson.
4. Velde's action.
5. Ike's handling of Reds in Government.
The Political Scene
17. A year after Eisenhower's landslide victory, the Republicans lost some scattered elections. The voters stayed Republican in only one of these: 1. New Jersey.
2. California.
3. New York.
4. Missouri.
5. Wisconsin. 18. New York City voters elected a new mayor, the son and namesake of one of these well-known political figures: 1. Franklin D. Roosevelt.
2. Alfred E. Smith.
3. James A. Farley.
4. Robert F. Wagner.
5. Herbert H. Lehman.
On the Job
19. James C. Hagerty. 20. Nelson
Rockefeller.
Joseph Dodge. 22. Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.
Do you know which of these men the Administration depends on to handle the vital jobs listed below: 1. White House Press Secretary.
2. Director of the Bureau of the Budget.
3. Director of Foreign Operations Administration.
4. Head of U.S. delegation to the U.N.
5. Under Secretary, Department of Health, Education and Welfare.
Around the Nation
23. A few weeks after Earl Warren took office as Chief Justice, the U.S. Supreme Court heard final arguments on a momentous issue: 1. States' rights to clouds in rainmaking.
2. Rights to offshore oil.
3. Right of 18-year-olds to vote.
4. Segregation in pub lic schools.
Scope of executive powers.
INTERNATIONAL & FOREIGN
The U.N.
24. This U.N. Assembly president issued a call for a meeting on Korea: 1. Dag Hammarskjold.
2. Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.
3. Major General S.P.P. Thorat.
4. Lester Pearson.
5. Madame Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit. 25. Earlier, before the fall session adjourned, Dr. Charles Mayo had presented the Political Committee of the U.N. General Assembly with a well-documented report of: 1. A far-advanced Communist plot to seize power in India.
2. Communist atrocities in North Korea and Manchuria against captured U.S. flyers.
3. A Red-led effort to disrupt West German elections with trainloads of young saboteurs from the East.
4. A Communist military buildup in North Korea under cover of the truce.
5. The real causes of Stalin's death.
Korea
26. A key issue which bogged down the preliminary political conference with the Reds at Panmunjom all fall was the Communists' insistence that: 1. The conference be held in Moscow.
2. The Indo-Chinese Reds be represented.
3. Russia attend the conference as a neutral.
4. Red China be admitted to the U.N. before the conference opened.
5. Only those nations whose troops had fought in Korea attend the conference. 27. President Eisenhower warned the Reds that if they breached the armistice in Korea: 1. We would support Japanese territorial claims in Manchuria.
2. It would be difficult to keep the war from spreading beyond Korea.
3. The U.S. would forever bar Red China from the U.N.
4. We would no longer recognize the 38th Parallel boundary.
5. Red China and North Korea would be brought before the U.N. Assembly for judgment. 28. Head man of the Neutral Nations Repatriation Commission which supervised the explanations to P.W.s who refused to go home was this Indian general: 1. Ghaffar Khan.
2. Jawaharlal Nehru.
3. V. K. Krishna Menon.
4. S. Ramkrishna Dalmia.
5. K. S. Thimayya.
Europe
29. Soviet leaders promised to make paradise a little more perfect for the comrades with all but one of these: 1. More refrigerators, TV sets, lipsticks and perfume by 1955 --or 1956.
2. Twice as much clothing and food by 1956.
3.-An announcement that it has given up for good the idea of collective farms.
4. A promise that farmers could own more livestock, receive higher prices for products they must sell to the state.
5. Three times as many pots and pans. 30. The French Assembly gave Premier Laniel a solid vote of confidence in early January. Chief reason: 1. The Communist threat of a general strike.
2. The need for "a government during the Berlin Four-Power Conference.
3. The strong stand he made in favor of EDC.
4. His successful handling of the farm problem.
5. The threat of a Gaullist coup d'etat. 31. Vice President Milovan Djilas, No. 3 man in Yugoslavia, was disgraced and stripped of party authority after he: 1. Called for closer ties with the U.S.
2. Criticized the party's methods, doctrines, and the wives of some party lead ers.
3. Dared to differ publicly with Tito on a military matter.
4. Called for resumption of the old close relationship with Russia.
5. Began driving a Cadillac and dressing his wife in mink. 32. At year's end the Trieste issue eased perceptibly when: 1. Yugoslavia and Italy agreed to attend the Berlin conference.
2. Yugoslavia openly differed with Russia on the Trieste issue.
3. Italy offered to make the city of Trieste a free port.
4. Both sides agreed to accept U.N. mediation.
5. Both sides withdrew their troops from the border.
The East
33. Prime Minister Nehru organized demonstrations in India in protest against proposed U.S. military aid to:
Pakistan.
Kashmir.
Burma.
Saudi Arabia.
5. Afghanistan. 34. In elections late in November this British-ruled territory turned its back on the Empire: 1. Rio de Oro. 4. Tanganyika.
2. Kenya. 5. Nyasaland.
3. The Sudan.
The Hemisphere
35. Most important task for the U.S. in Latin America, according to the report given President Eisenhower by his brother Milton, is to: 1. Eliminate friction between Argentina, Brazil and Chile.
2. Help Brazil to develop the Amazon Valley.
3. Stamp out Communism in Argentina.
4. Strengthen our economic relations in Latin America.
5. Eliminate dictatorships in Brazil and Chile. 36. Brazil's economy was benefiting vastly from steeply rising prices of its principal export: 1. Hemp.
2. Newsprint.
3. Bananas. 4. Petroleum.
5. Coffee. 37. In Venezuela the first shipments began coming out of Cerro Bolivar, one of the 20th Century's greatest discoveries of: 1. Petroleum. 4. Magnesium.
2. Copper. 5. Iron ore.
3. Uranium. 38. British troops moved in here to suspend the constitution and clamp down on the first openly pro-Communist government in the Empire: 1. Jamaica. 3. Trinidad.
2. British Honduras. 4. The Bahamas.
5. British Guiana.
MAP PERSONALITIES
Directions: items 39 through 54 appear in pairs. The first of each pair relates a person to one of the countries pinpointed on the map. For these items write on the answer sheet the number of the country correctly locating the person described. 39. The eldest of this absolute monarch's 40 sons succeeded him here.
40. The son will continue his father's partnership with: 1. Jordan.
2. Israel.
3. U.S. oil interests.
4. British Commonwealth.
5. U.S. steel industry. 41. A military court convicted him of treason to this nation. 42. Until his imprisonment he had been: 1. Shah. 4. U.N. Representative 2. King.
3. Premier. 5. Chief Justice. 43. An encyclopedia was rewritten here to eliminate reference to him. 44. Before his fall he was: 1. Premier.
2. Foreign Minister.
3. Ambassador to the U.S.
4. Marshal of the Army.
5. Secret police head. 45. He led his country's delegation to a Big Four conference here.
46. His job: 1. Dictator of Russia.
2. British Colonial Secretary.
3. Under Secretary of State.
4. Russian Foreign Minister.
5. France's President. 47. After 13 ballots he was elected President of this country.
48. His name: 1. Joseph Laniel. 4. Georges Bidault.
2. Yvon Delbos. 5. Marcel Naegelen. 3. Rene Coty.
49. She left home here for a U.S. tour with her husband. 50. The names of the royal couple: 1. Ingrid and Frederik.
2. Maud and Haakon.
3. Margaret and Gustaf.
4. Elizabeth and Philip.
5. Frederika and Paul. 51. The fall of his caretaker government revealed an ill democracy here.
52. Immediate cause of his fall: 1. Right-Left struggle in his own party.
2. Communist gains in recent elections.
3. Monarchist gains in recent elections.
4. Withdrawal of U.S. military aid.
5. Vatican opposition. 53. Thousands of this new executive's followers jammed the presidential palace at his inauguration here. 54. His name: 1. Klpidio Quirino.
2. Jose Francisco.
3. Jose Laurel. 4. Lazaro Cardenas.
5. Ramon Magsaysay.
OTHER EVENTS
Books and Education
55. For his "brilliant oratory," as well as for his 27 books, the Nobel Prize for Literature went to: 1. Winston Churchill 3. Robert Sherillwood.
2. James Byrnes. 4. George Marshall.
5. Chester Wilmot. 56. His bristling incorruptibility, his endless suspicion of other politicos, and his Donald Duck temper came through in The Secret Diary of this old New Dealer: 1. Henry Morgenthau.
2. General Hugh S. Johnson.
3. Cordell Hull.
4. Alben W. Barkley.
5. Harold Ickes. 57. In 1953, for the second year, this book sold more than 1,000,000 copies, led all other current books: 1. From Here to Eternity--James Jones.
2. The Old Man and the Sea--Ernest Hemingway.
3. Sexual Behavior in the Human Female--Alfred C. Kinsey.
4. The Second Happiest Day--John Phillips.
5. Revised Standard Version of the Bible. 58. Appointed to succeed the late Lee Thurston as U.S. Commissioner of Education is:
William Jansen.
Earl Armstrong.
Samuel Brownell.
Meredith Wilson.
Earl McGrath.
Science and Medicine
59. Doctors have recently discovered that babies with blood disorders caused by Rh-factor differences in their parents have a greater chance of being born alive if their mothers during pregnancy are treated with: 1. Mescal beans. 4. Sulfa drugs.
2. Cortisone. 5. Insulin.
3. Penicillin. 60. Skull and jawbones which had long been attributed to a very ancient man turned out to belong to a relatively modern ape and a relatively modern man. Exposed as a hoax was the: 1. Neanderthal man.
2. Piltdown man.
3. Java man.
4. Peking man.
5. Paleolithic man. 61. Almost 50 years to the day after the Wright Brothers twirled their first pusher propeller, Major Charles E. Yeager flew faster than any previous pilot or plane. His speed: 1. 600 miles per hour.
2. 2 1/2, times the speed of sound.
3. Just over the speed of sound.
4. Faster than the speed of light.
5. 2,400 miles per hour. 62. Recent medical claims of a connection between heavy cigarette smoking and lung cancer resulted in a group of the large tobacco companies: 1. Urging cigar and pipe smoking.
2. Gearing for lower production.
3. Organizing a Research Committee to investigate tobacco use and health.
4. Making grants to 7 medical schools.
5. Announcing a substitute for tobacco. 63. Dr. William Kaufman told the American Psychiatric Association in Boston that the commonest and most-neglected illness in the U.S. today is: 1. Money-sickness.
2. The common cold.
3. Gout.
4. Amnesia.
5. Insomnia.
Business
64. Compared with 1952, U.S. output of goods and services for 1953 was: 1. Exactly the same. 3. Up 50%. 4. Down 10%.
2. Up slightly--5%. 5. Down sharply. 65. The area where the 1953 volume of building was larger than the combined 1952 total of Chicago, Detroit, Houston, Dallas, Philadelphia, New Orleans, Denver, Baltimore and Boston is: 1. Miami. 4. Pacific Northwest. 2. Los Angeles.
3. New York City. 5. San Francisco. 66. To provide more housing for low-income families, President Eisenhower's 23-man advisory housing committee recommended that: 1. 1954 home building triple 1953's.
2. FHA insure mortgages up to 40 years.
3. Private industry take over FHA.
4. FHA work only in unbuilt areas.
5. National building codes be revised. 67. American Motors Corp., fourth largest automobile company, is a merger of: 1. Packard-Stude-baker.
2. Nash-Hudson.
3. Chrysler-Dodge.
4. Crosley-Bantam.
5. Jaguar-Austin.
OBIT
Within the last few months, death came to many noted men and women. For each question below, two correct answers are possible. Write in either name. 68. Each of these contributed greatly to the sports world before death claimed them. One had converted Babe Ruth from a pitcher to an outfielder and helped build the Yankee ball club; the other teamed with the immortal Knute Rockne to popularize the forward pass. 69. Within two weeks of each other, two of Britain's onetime Cabinet members died. One, a politician diplomat who resigned in protest against Munich; the other a distinguished statesman who died still stoutly defending the Munich pact.
SPELL IT OUT
The first letter of each correct answer below spells out a ten-letter word that has recently been in the news. You get one point for each answer and one for the meaning of the word. 70. Massachusetts' junior Senator.
71. TIME'S Man of the Year.
72. For the noise he made, most discussed man of 1953.
73. Queen on worldwide tour.
74. Famous helicopter builder.
75. France's outgoing President who urged unity.
76. Philippines' new President.
77. Britain's Foreign Secretary.
78. Millionheiress who married "Big Dame Hunter."
79. City where the President worked and golfed over Christmas.
80. The word spelled out is: 1. Iran's ex-Premier.
2. Pella's successor as Premier of Italy.
3. A "missing link" fish caught in African waters.
4. Hawaiian King whose dream of statehood seemed about to be fulfilled.
5. Communist forces fighting French in Indo-China.
Art and Entertainment
81. Walt Disney won critical acclaim for his first full-length nature film: 1. The Cruel Sea.
2. The River.
3. The Sea Around Us.
4. The Living Desert.
5. Return to Paradise. 82. Despite Stars Mary Martin and Charles Boyer and $750,000 in advance sales, most critics turned thumbs down on one of these plays: 1. Teahouse of the August Moon.
2. Sabrina Fair.
3. Kind Sir.
4. Kismet.
5. The Solid Gold Cadillac. 83. Though his lumpish, aggressively individualistic statuary has been outraging public commentators for most of his creative life, Queen Elizabeth awarded a knighthood to Manhattan-born:
Jacob Epstein.
Carl Milles.
Carlo Lorenzini.
Emilio Greco.
5. Henry Moore. 84. Grandma Moses, who did not even think of painting seriously until she was 76, at 93 describes most of her paintings as: 1. Mere abstractions.
2. Christmas pictures.
3. Daydreams.
4. Real Americana.
5. Pictures of the "old country." 85. One of the Metropolitan Opera Company's best performances in the early part of the season was the only opera Debussy ever finished: 1. Le Nozze de Figaro.
2. Don Giovanni.
3. Pelleas et Melisande.
4. Amahl and the Night Visitors.
5. Cosi fan Tutte. 86. At his death late in 1953 it could be said: Before him the U.S. had theater; after him it had drama: 1. Arthur Miller.
2. William Inge.
3. Sinclair Lewis. 4. Maxwell Anderson.
5. Eugene O'Neill. 87. Judith Anderson plays the leading role in Broadway's new play contrasting the happy-animal life of a gaggle of Mexicans with the mental distress of half-a-dozen Americans in about every stage of neurotic obsession: 1. End as a Man.
2. Teahouse of the August Moon.
3. In the Summer House. 4. Late Love. 5. Tea and Sympathy. 88. Lindsay 85 Grouse's highly topical setting for their play The Prescott Proposals is:
1. The U.N. 2. A TV studio.
3. The "ShangriLa" hideaway of a U.S. President.
4. Eighth Army Headquarters in Korea.
5. The U.S. Senate.
Press
89. Banned U.S. periodicals are again allowed to enter one of these countries: 1. Argentina.
2. Guatemala.
3. Spain.
Brazil.
Colombia; 90. Newspapers in this major city were forced to suspend publication when staff members refused to cross picket lines of the striking Photo-Engravers' Union: 1. Chicago.
2. New York.
3. Los Angeles.
4. San Francisco.
5. Boston. 91. "Fight for progress and reform, never tolerate injustice or corruption, always fight demagogues of all parties." These words, written 75 years ago, still form a part of the platform of the leading crusading newspaper in the U.S.: Joseph Pulitzer's 1. New York Post.
2. Detroit Free Press.
3. St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
4. Washington Post.
5. Portland Oregonian. 92. Changing the practice in effect since Woodrow Wilson first put presidential press conferences on a regular basis, Ike: 1. Released a whole press conference for direct quotes.
2. Insisted that all questions be in writing.
3. Permitted foreign correspondents to attend.
4. Criticized a correspondent as "too nosy."
5. Had his whole Cabinet in attendance.
Religion
93. Concluding that some of its priests were being led astray, the Roman Catholic Church in France ordered back to their parishes the special priests who had been: 1. Functioning in the Montmartre district.
2. Hearing the confessions of theatrical people.
3. Taking jobs as workers in order
to wean fellow-workers from Communism.
4. Serving as lifeguards on the Riviera beaches.
5. Studying Marxism at the Sorbonne. 94. The forthcoming General Assembly of the World Council of Churches will point up the two distinct Protestant versions of Christian hope. In general, the Americans, compared with the Europeans, tend to be: 1. More interested in purely theological matters.
2. More optimistic about man's own ability to further moral progress.
3. Less willing to accept nonliteral interpretations of the Scriptures.
4. More willing to compromise with Roman Catholicism.
5. More insistent on maintaining denominational fences. 95. Before his illness, the Pope for the first time since the war drove through downtown Rome. Reason: the inauguration of the 100th anniversary of the promulgation of the Dogma of: 1. The Immaculate 3. The Incarnation.
Conception. 4. Hell.
2. The Trinity. 5. Heaven. 96. In a case involving Jehovah's Witnesses and the draft, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled: 1. All Jehovah's Witnesses are draft exempt.
2. Jehovah's Witnesses are not ministers; none, therefore, is draft exempt.
3. Ministers are draft exempt providing their services as ministers comprise their regular vocation.
4. Draft exemption depends in part on the denomination served.
5. All ministers in all denominations are draft exempt. 97. Author-Philosopher Giovanni Papini aroused a theological storm in his latest book by asserting that there is hope of salvation for : l. The Soviet leaders.
2. The Devil.
3. Protestants.
4. All Communists.
5. Unbelievers.
Radio & TV
98. Director Donald Richardson struck pure gold in his TV version of James Thurber's fairy story: 1. Hansel & Gretel.
2. Cinderella.
3. The Prince & the Pauper.
4. Beauty & the Beast.
5. The Thirteen Clocks. 99. After saying at a dinner party to RCA's president that TV should develop good writers, this author was given an NBC contract for more than $100,000 to write plays, the first of which was The Backbone of America: 1. Robert Sherwood.
2. Carl Carmer.
3. Charles Lindbergh.
4. John Dos Passos.
5. Carson McCullers. 100. Over loud squawks from its own and Labor Party members, the Conservative Party in Great Britain proposed that British television: 1. Permit commercial sponsors.
2. Charge more for the use of English movies
by American television companies.
3. Be turned over wholly to private industry.
4. Limit the appearances of English stars on American television shows.
5. Increase income by attaching coin-box gadgets to TV sets.
Sports
101. The Brooklyn Dodgers will take the field in 1954 without former Manager Charley Dressen who: 1. Would not accept a one-year contract.
2. Decided to retire after two decades in major-league ball.
3. Accepted an offer to manage another National League team.
4. Decided that two lost World Series meant he had jinxed the Dodgers.
5. Disagreed with the Dodgers' owners about renewing the contracts of several players. 102. Top gridiron honors of the regular 1953 season went to this unbeaten and untied team:
1. U.C.L.A. 2. Stanford.
3. Michigan State.
4. Notre Dame.
5. University of Maryland. 103. Sammy Lee was "a little embarrassed, but darned proud" when he: 1. Won the high-scoring honors in the National Basketball tournament.
2. Won the James E. Sullivan award as the nation's No. 1 amateur athlete in 1953.
3. Captured the heavyweight boxing championship.
4. Made the winning touchdown in the Rose Bowl game for U.C.L.A.
5. Was named Baseball Rookie of the Year. 104. In the feature Davis Cup contest, America's Tony Trabert lost a bitterly fought match to Australia's 19-year-old prodigy:
Jack Crawford.
Frank Sedgman.
Vic Seixas.
Lewis Hoad.
5. Harry Hopman. 105. Sparked by Quarterback Bobby Layne, this team beat the Cleveland Browns for the national pro title: 1. Detroit Lions.
2. Washington Redskins.
3. New York Giants.
4. Green Bay Packers.
5. Los Angeles Rams.
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Four of the recent TIME cover personalities shown here are identified by the four groups of statements below. No score for this section, but just for fun, see if you can write in the correct name on the first clue.
If not, read the second clue. And don't feel too badly if you have to go on to the third. 1.
A. A Polish-born son of a tailor, he worked his way through school as a Western Union messenger.
B. Rebellious, secluded, intellectual, his career was almost ended by antagonistic superiors until White House intervention.
C. His brainchild, which may well revolutionize seapower, is a namesake of one of Jules Verne's famous literary inventions.
20 A. Though he drew little joy from it, he was a relentless prosecutor who convicted an average of 15 murderers a year.
B. In California he forbade his department heads to refuse to hire anyone for reasons of race, color or creed.
C. The fact that he was neither a legal philosopher nor an experienced judge did not prevent his appointment to the nation's highest judicial office, 3.
A. He early gained diplomatic experience on a special mission to King George V's coronation. He has long been rated as having seen more of the world and as knowing jt better than any of his predecessors, C. Although Stalin sneered at his iack of divisions, he was even during World War II one of the world's most powerful figures.
4.
A. He taught economics " conservatively as Adam Smith." B. Senator Taft and Britain's famed Economist Lord Keynes were the butts of his sneers and bullying, C. Before he was exposed as an aid to a Soviet spy ring he had risen to be an Assistant Secretary of the Treasury.
ANSWERS & SCORES
The correct answers to the 105 questions in the News Quiz are printed below. You can rate yourself by comparing your score with the scale: Below --50 Poorly informed
51-65 --Not well-informed.
66-80 --Somewhat well-informed .
81-95 --Well-informed
96-105 --Very well-informed.
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