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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...
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.
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...
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...
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...