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Clifton Paul "Kip" Fadiman (May 15, 1904 – June 20, 1999) was an American intellectual, author, editor, and radio and television personality. He began his work in radio, and switched to television later in his career.
Fantasia Mathematica [1] is an anthology published in 1958 containing stories, humor, poems, etc., all on mathematical topics, compiled by Clifton Fadiman. A companion volume was published as The Mathematical Magpie (1962). The volume contains writing by authors including Robert Heinlein, Aldous Huxley, H. G. Wells, and Martin Gardner.
The series was moderated by Clifton Fadiman. A panel of experts would attempt to answer questions submitted by listeners. A panel of experts would attempt to answer questions submitted by listeners. For the first few shows, a listener was paid $2 for a question that was used, and $5 more if the experts could not answer it correctly.
An Australian radio program, after the American model, was first aired on Australian commercial radio in 1948. [5] In 1952 John Dease began hosting Quiz Kids on Radio 2GB, that ran every Sunday evening until 14 October 1962 (with an abortive attempt in 1956–57 to run concurrently on ATN-7 and GTV-9 weekly from 9 June 1957 to 10 November 1957) and transferred to ABC TV in March 1964.
The Mathematical Magpie is an anthology published in 1962, compiled by Clifton Fadiman as a companion volume to his Fantasia Mathematica (1958). [1] The volume contains stories, cartoons, essays, rhymes, music, anecdotes, aphorisms, and other oddments.
It applied to Clifton Fadiman and James Baldwin and Susan Sontag and it certainly applies to Ta-Nehisi Coates. With the game-changing success of his essay/memoir Between The World and Me, ...
Clifton Fadiman was the host. In addition to performing, artists were supposed to discuss with the panel any show-business-related problems that they had encountered. The discussion aspect sometimes provided difficult when the performers felt that they had no problems to discuss. [3]
Judge Newman is no stranger to high-profile cases. In 2021, he presided over the trial of a man who killed a University of South Carolina student who thought the man was her Uber driver.