Word: evens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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 investigate The $64,000 Challenge (which was owned by a packaging firm controlled by CBS-TV President Lou Cowan). The network chucked all three shows between August 1958 and last January. But it has continued to ride with Name That Tune, though it publicly admits that some contestants are asked...
...strikes at the integrity of the networks," echoed CBS. (Dan Enright did not agree. Said he: "A degree of deception is of considerable value in producing shows.") But the networks could not deny that they had been less than thorough in investigating the charges when they were first made; even as late as last October, when NBC took over Dan Enright's and M.C. Jack Barry's supervision of the shows, NBC said that it was doing it so that the partners, in their own words, could "devote more time to disproving the unfounded charges against our integrity...
...kind of evening," wrote German Critic Friedrich Luft, "when a critic is reduced to admirer and fan." Night after night crowds stormed the box office of West Berlin's Renaissance Theater without success: the four-week limited engagement of Jerome Kilty's Dear Liar had been sold out overnight. Based on the series of "wicked, wicked letters" that George Bernard Shaw exchanged over the years with Actress Stella (Mrs. Patrick) Campbell, the play crackled with the thrust and parry of Shavian wit neatly done in German. But for once G.B.S. himself was being upstaged by an even more...
...husband and wife to decide for themselves, said the committee, "whether any one act of intercourse shall be for the enrichment or expression of their personal relationship only, or for the begetting of a child also . . . Sexual intercourse within marriage has in itself a goodness given by God, even when there is neither the possibility nor the immediate intention to beget children...
...casual tourist in Rome last weekend might have come away convinced that English had been made the official language of the Vatican. Even Pope John XXIII, coached for the past year, prepared to use the newest in his vocabulary of nine languages. And to Rome a mass pilgrimage of American Catholic clergy brought three cardinals (New York's Spellman, Boston's Gushing, Philadelphia's O'Hara), five dozen archbishops and bishops, and scores of other U.S. churchmen for a typically American celebration: Homecoming Day. Most were old grads returning to their alma mater-Rome...