Howard also took over hosting the quiz show It's Academic after Mac McGarry, who hosted the show for fifty years, retired in 2011.
Although McGarry's intentions were to continue hosting the 51st season of It's Academic, he announced his retirement in early November 2011 due to health issues.
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Maurice James "Mac" McGarry (June 15, 1926 – December 12, 2013) was the longtime host of the television quiz show It's Academic, which airs in Washington, D.C. on NBC-owned WRC-TV.
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