Two Children Share TV Prize

Press, Volume XCIII, Issue 27986, 5 June 1956, Page 11

Two Children Share TV Prize

(Rec. 11 p.m.) NEW YORK. June 4. Two 12-year-old expert spellers, who tied for a 64.000-dollar “winner-take-air’ prize, each received 32.000 dollars, last night without having to answer anv questions.

The producers of the quiz programme. “64.000 dollar challenge.” waived one of the show’s rules and split the top prize between the 12-year-old contestants, Gloria Lockerman and Andy Douglass. The two youngsters were scheduled to compete in one more spelling contest after they had tied for the top prize last week. But the producers of the show decided to split the money because the contestants were children.

Gloria, a negro, just stared at the compere. Mr Sonny Fox. when he gave her the cheque. All she could do was nod her head when he asked her whether she was happy. Andy was all •miles.

One of the tightest security screens since the end of the war has been clamped down on his movements since he left Cyprus on Saturday night. The secrecy is to foil any assassination attempt by Cypriot gunmen who may have entered Britain. His arrival at Northolt airport, on the outskirts of London, was not announced by the Colonial Office until an hour and a half after the Governor’s plane had touched down. By then he was speeding by car, accompanied by security guards, to the London home of the Colonial Secretary, Mr Alan Lennox-Boyd.