Word: dotto
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Dates: during 1958-1958
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...quiz shows fixed? The question agitates millions of TV viewers to whom the mind-rending programs have become not only a favorite pastime but almost a national institution. For an inside account of how one of the shows-the popular Dotto-was bounced off the air for downright crookedness, see SHOW BUSINESS, Scandal of the Quizzes. That story follows other reports by TIME'S new section that have won high readership ratings since it started three weeks ago. Among them: last week's piece on the agents who find and coach quiz-show contestants, which served...
...argument was only too correct. When Dotto (TIME, Aug. 11) was summarily dumped by both its networks (CBS in the morning and NBC at night) and its sponsor (Colgate Palmolive Co.) last week, its guilty secret was impossible to keep. Dotto had been crooked...
...Anteroom Note. Everyone involved in the scandal suddenly became so tight-mouthed and empty-headed that neither networks nor sponsor nor Dotto's owner (Frank Cooper Associates) seemed to know enough between them to rate a spot on the show. But despite the determined silences, the story leaked...
Waiting nervously in a studio anteroom one morning, a Dotto stand-by contestant had noticed a woman contestant, already a steady winner, stealthily studying a set of notes. When the woman left the room -and left her notes behind-the stand-by grabbed them. A quick reading told the tale: someone was feeding the woman advance information. Her answers were all prepared; she could not lose. The stand-by rushed to a Dotto bigwig with the incriminating evidence and peddled his promise of silence...
...hope of catching the Jekyll-Hyde transformation before it gets on-camera. few show's rely solely on their "people getters." They have their own interviews, their own exhaustive questionnaires. Some of them even require references. Diane, who supplies contestants for both Dotto and Haggis Baggis (on a regular retainer) and also sends a few to Lucky Partner and Name That Tune (which pay by the head), conducts her own interviews-in-depth. She is opposed to the popular practice of giving written tests before screening contestants. "Anyone can look bad on written questions," says she. "And anyway, what...