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...President did not think so. The TV scandal touched off by the confessions of Charles Van Doren (see SHOW BUSINESS) seemed to leave the U.S. "bewildered," said he. It reminded him of the time when the Chicago White Sox were accused of taking bribes to throw the 1919 World Series; a bewildered newsboy went to Outfielder "Shoeless Joe" Jackson and said, "Say it ain't so, Joe." Obstinacy at the bargaining table and dishonesty on the air waves, Ike went on, are reminders that "selfishness and greed . . . occasionally get the ascendancy over those things that we like to think...
...newly created, all-powerful Board of Broadcast Governors opened hearings last week on a strict set of ground rules to keep television in Canada as Canadian-and hopefully as pure-as driven snow. The Ottawa hearing had barely begun when an electrifying whisper raced through the room: "Van Doren has confessed." Any lingering hope for easy rules went up in smoke...
This commercial-minded argument fell flat in the wake of the U.S. scandals. Snapped one private broadcaster: "Van Doren has done more damage to free enterprise in Canadian broadcasting in an hour than the CBC in 20 years...
When he wrote these lines (in LIFE), soon after winning $129,000 on Twenty-One, Charles Van Doren was sneering at the intellectual futility of TV's quiz games. But by last week, Van Doren's words could be read less as sneer than as simple statement of fact. The office of New York District Attorney Frank Hogan dropped its last qualifying hedges, in effect said that Van Doren had admitted receiving both questions and answers on Twenty-One, as had his successor, Hank Bloomgarden...
...getting ready to testify this week before the House Subcommittee on Legislative Oversight, Van Doren broke his silence briefly: "I've been getting just wonderful letters from wonderful people. I put the good letters in one pocket and the bad in another. When I looked I had 39 good letters in one pocket and there was only one bad one in the other pocket. I've been getting so much love from so many people that I just wish I could return it all. People are wonderful...