Word: answerable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What seemed to irritate Stempel the most was the occasional insistence that he give a wrong answer. "I was forced to admit that I didn't know where the Taj Mahal is; I was forced to say that Gothic architecture originated in Germany when I know damn well it was France. See, that's the trend now: a big winner will have to flub the easy ones to make the American public look good." Eventually, said Herb, Enright told him, "We've reached a plateau. We need a new face." Herb was forced to lose...
...Ready Answers. Dapper Dan Enright had a ready answer: Stempel's story had long since been proved false. Stempel had indeed tried to peddle his story to the New York Post and the Journal-American more than a year ago, and neither paper had been sufficiently convinced to print it. He had also signed a "confession" for Enright, stating that his charges had been false. But last week, when Stempel repeated his fraud story to the district attorney, the World-Telegram & Sun and the Journal published it-and were promptly sued for libel by Barry & Enright Productions...
...Herb Stempel's friends and a maid who had once worked for the family told newsmen that they could testify to the truth of Herb's claims. Herb, they said, had told them well in advance of his appearances on the show just which questions he would answer, which he would miss. Eventually a jury may decide whether or not Stempel is telling the truth. But the kind of blatant crookedness charged in Stempel's story was not the only issue...
...produce market, A. B. (for Arthur Bernard) Clements, 60, editor of the Sporting Life, sat down one morning last week to flip through his mail. As usual, it contained requests for him to arbitrate disputes between British horse-race bettors and their bookies. As usual, Clements prepared a judicious answer to each query...
Sporting Life is the arbitrator, critic, memory and chief tipster of British racing and other gambling sports. Sporting Life reporters at every track decide the starting odds by which bets are settled all over Great Britain, impartially provide all trainers with tips on the opposition. They answer some 11,000 queries a year on everything from saddle sizes to 19th century Derby results. Circulating 60,000 copies a day (at 4½? a copy), Sporting Life is as essential as the Times to the "well-britched people" who control or patronize British racing; eight copies go to Buckingham Palace...