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The idea might be premature, but not by too much. The increasingly loud and indignant question among TV viewers this week is: Which of the quiz shows are rigged? From unquestionably crooked Dotto (TIME, Sept. 1), ruined by the revelations of a part-time butler, actor and near-professional quiz...
The fancy prizes that looked so fine before the camera have too often grown tarnished between victory and delivery; e.g., the all-expenses-paid vacation in Europe provided no hotel room, only a flight to Paris and home the next day. There was evidence that contestants on certain shows had...
Says a Manhattan housewife who won nearly $1,500 in a four-day appearance: ''Each morning, before the show goes on, each contestant sees a producer. He says something like 'Well, what will we talk about today? Who holds the record for home runs? You know-Babe...
Without Warmup. After her first appearance, the housewife was naive enough to thank the producer for his tip. Says she: "He shook his head firmly and put his finger to his mouth." But when the showmen decided that she had won enough, they said to her: "We're going...
The most dramatic contestant of all was Israel's own entry: Amos Hacham, 30, a partly paralyzed, barely articulate clerk in Jerusalem's Institute for the Blind, and the orphan son of a Bible scholar; a childhood accident had left Hacham with a dragging leg, a shriveled arm...