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Tic Tac 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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: People Are Wonderful | 11/9/1959 | See Source »

Re the kiss-and-tell TV contestants of the ill-famed quiz shows [Oct. 19]: it takes at least two to make a bargain, crooked or otherwise.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 2, 1959 | 11/2/1959 | See Source »

In such an atmosphere, fixing was epidemic. On CBS, testified a network spokesman, Dotto went crooked. So did For Love or Money (whose "dancing decimal machine" was rigged to chisel down the contestants' possible winnings). After a contestant reported he had been fed an answer, CBS even began to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: The Big Fix | 10/19/1959 | See Source »

Last week the American Council on Education made an angry, 100-page attack on U.S. "diploma mills," which have run a carefree con game around the globe for more than a century. Trouble is that the mills are blossoming as never before. At least 200 crooked schools in 37 states...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Academic Racketeers | 10/19/1959 | See Source »

Jones and the Giants know that this is the week that may decide the three-way pennant fight: they play two games with Milwaukee, three with Los Angeles. Sad Sam is ready. "The arm's been ten years hurting," he says. "Now I've got control of this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Tortured Arm | 9/21/1959 | See Source »

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