TV pioneer Norm Blumenthal still has game
Photo credit: Handout | Norm Blumenthal, center, with “Concentration” host Hugh Downs, left, and announcer Bob Clayton in 1968.
Norm Blumenthal has never been at a loss for words — or ideas for drawing them. From 1958 to 1973, he created more than 7,000 picture puzzles for TV's popular daytime game show "Concentration" and also was the show's producer.
In the nearly four decades that Blumenthal worked in television, he always gave it his all. And in the case of "Concentration," he gave it his "awl."
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