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...their mastery of the situation, the quiz producers seem helpless before the major ailment afflicting their shows. The sum of $64.000 no longer inspires audience awe. Viewers have become so blase that the producers arbitrarily changed their rules to enable Schoolboy Strom to win as much as $256,000, and devised new rules to let Clerk Nadler keep winning too. More important, a kind of inflation has also hit the contestants: instead of the kind of ordinary people who struck a responsive chord in viewers, they now run to narrow specialists and photographic minds-"freaks," as the trade calls them...
Died. Theodore Edwin Stein way, 73, board chairman of Steinway & Sons, who could "put a piano together blindfolded," grandson of Founder (in 1853) Henry Engelhard Steinway and one of the world's leading stamp collectors; of a heart ailment; in Manhattan...
Died. Dr. William Milton Adams Sr., 51, internationally known plastic surgeon, onetime (1953-54) president of the American Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery; of a heart ailment; in Memphis...
...although denied official permission to join his wife Gertrude at the national leprosarium at Carville, La., lived in a cottage on the hospital grounds until she was cured (TIME. Sept. 26, 1949), then joined her in a campaign of education about Hansen's disease; of a heart ailment; in New York City...
Died. Pedro Cardinal Segura y Sáenz, 76, terrible-tempered, medieval-minded Roman Catholic Archbishop of Seville, who damned and damped down the gay traditional dances of his fun-loving people, banned their movies, shuttered their nightclubs; of a kidney ailment; in Madrid. His denunciation of Protestantism, and even of Franco's limited religious tolerance ("It causes one real pain to see the tolerance shown toward non-Catholic sects . . .") made him almost as unpopular with many of his fellow Catholics as with Protestants, eventually (1955) caused his diocesan duties to be shifted by the Vatican, in consultation with...