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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...students held a rally for him. (But one leaned out of a dorm window and cried, "Hey, Charlie's going to be in the quad tomorrow to give out the answers to the Comparative Lit exam.") Officials of several colleges hinted that they would welcome his job applications. Among them: St. John's, the "great books" college in Annapolis, Md., where he took his B.A. In Manhattan, a new magazine called Leisure asked Van Doren to write a column titled "The Intellect at Leisure...
Many were the kinds of fixes, testified Koplin. Among them: the Area Fix, i.e., questions were pitched within the contestants' strong and specific areas of knowledge. (This was usually the case, declared Koplin, with Challenge's Teddy Nadler, who won $252,000.) There was also the Playback (questions had been asked in pre-game tests) and the Emergency (questions and answers were given the contestants, usually just before the show). "Emergencies" produced some Keystone Cops fiascos; often the fixer had to spring down to the celebrated bank vault, where the questions were held, quickly slip in the rigged...
...deeper than that. The quiz hearings served to focus a general discontent with TV, a widespread feeling that its masters do not allow the medium to live up to its great promise. In defense, TV's top men could and did say that they have enormous problems, chief among them the vast and amorphous audience. Where a newspaper or magazine can address itself to one kind of audience, television must play...
Madison Avenue's top-drawer advertising agencies have followed the trend; five years ago, agencies spawned 10% of all network shows, now also save on overhead by shopping for their clients among the packagers. The ubiquitous package firms range in size from giants, e.g., Revue Productions Inc., dog-wagging tail of the Music Corp. of America, which grossed $38 million on its filmed series (M Squad, Wagon Train) last year, down to one-shot independents, e.g., Jack (Lassie) Wrather. The range is qualitative as well: Independent Robert Saudek has won Emmys and Peabody Awards for Omnibus, while Warner Bros...
Most characteristic of Bahian art were wrought-iron figures of the dread god Exú, pronounced eh-shoe (see color page). As with other Bahian folk figures, Exú suffered a sea change in being transplanted from Africa. Among other things, he acquired the horns and trident of the Christian devil, and a wife (to keep him more content). Exú's power for death and destruction is unquestioned by thousands of believers, who rarely refer to him by name. They call him simply O Compadre (The Companion...