n 25 Years Ago in TV Guide: Our favorite June 1983 cover featured this motley group: Alan Alda, Valerie Bertinelli, Erik Estrada and Linda Evans. Those four and others were discussed in the article “They’re Stars – But Can They Act?”
Long before Wisk was introduced in 1956 as the first liquid laundry detergent (its “Ring around the collar” commercials debuted in 1974), the name Wisk was:
A) A character in a Charles Dickens novel
B) A brand of hunting rifle
C) A variety of avocado
D) A common surname in Austria
Monday’s answer: Giving a person “the third degree” is derived from Freemasonry. Specifically, the Masonic ritual associated with attaining the Third Degree.
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