Word: cohn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Divorced. By Joan Cohn Karl, 45, widow of Cinemogul Harry Cohn: Shoe Magnate Harry Karl, 45; separated after 23 days of togetherness (her $110,000 settlement amounts to $4,782.61 a day); in Santa Monica, Calif...
...Payoff. Meanwhile, other former contestants began to sing. Manhattan Adman Arthur Cohn Jr. recalled his appearance on The $64,000 Challenge. At a warmup, said Cohn, his opponent came out of a private session with Associate Producer Shirley Bernstein (sister of Conductor Leonard Bernstein), positively popping with both questions and answers. Disgusted with what he was convinced was a fraud, Cohn took his beating, complained to the show's sponsor (Revlon), and insisted that his $250 consolation prize be donated to charity...
...Dough Veteran Richard Clark was even angrier than Cohn, and for a different reason. In his 1958 appearances on the air, Clark won $22,500, but the producers' admission that the show was crooked, said he, has damaged his reputation. Reason: his friends will not believe that he was not in on the fix. He filed a $500,000 suit against NBC, the show's producers (Barry & Enright Productions) and the sponsor (Procter & Gamble). What's more, argued Clark, his eye on an even bigger payoff, the fix cost him a possible $40,000 in winnings...
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...Lawrence Cowen, president of the Lionel Corp. since 1946, resigned as president and was named board chairman by a group of investors-headed by Lawyer Roy Cohn-which got control of more than 200,000 of Lionel's 720,000 outstanding shares. Ailing Lionel (1958 loss: $469,057), a leading toy-train maker, also produces baseball gloves, fishing gear and electronic devices. Cohn, once chief counsel of the late Senator Joseph McCarthy's Senate investigating subcommittee, said his group will name a new president in the near future and adopt "drastic marketing changes...