50 Years Ago in TV Guide: December 1957 cover subjects included Alfred Hitchcock, Dinah Shore, Walt Disney and Ricky Nelson. The results of a national poll revealed that 96 percent of Americans were against the establishment of pay TV. And a feature article celebrated the 10th anniversary of Howdy Doody, along with its 2200th episode.

Complete this line from Ralph Waldo Emerson’s essay “Self-Reliance”: “To be great is to be . . . “

A) Alone

B) First

C) Misunderstood

D) Alive

Friday’s answer: Abraham Lincoln received 78 percent of the votes cast by Union soldiers in the Presidential election of 1864, far higher than the 55 percent of the popular vote cast for Lincoln overall.