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BLUNDERING RADCLIFFITES BEATEN BY HARVARD IN QUIZ

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Bowing in complete intellectual defeat to four Harvard Sophomores, four Radcliffe seniors found themselves so unable to cope with the questions asked on People's Quiz Club Program over Station WAAB last night that they received a final score of 300 compared to the Harvard men's 800.

Mack Gabler, '41, answered such difficult questions as "What is a prestidigitator?" and "Name three Presidents who came from Ohio." Prize blunder was made by Virginia Hogland, Radcliffe '39, who suggested that "barkentine" was something that one smoked.

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