Word: experts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...story -a three-hour beat-from the pilot. An Associated Press correspondent went to a funeral parlor, where he talked the attendant into letting him look at the body of one of the passengers, found she had been killed by gunshots. But the British, who had put a ballistics expert to work checking a shell dug from one survivor's body, still held off announcing the attack...
...knew him thought that Spike was ready to retire from boxing. Last week some of his old friends were enthusiastically arguing that Spike is a highly trained technical expert and ought to be shipped to Israel as Point Four aid. Spike and Israel heartily agree. Young Israeli gentlemen, they say, would do well to learn their fighting from a master...
...Blue Angel (Tues., 10:30 p.m., CBS-TV) stars a quiet, wry, young (26) comedian named Orson Bean who has a happy way with a joke. On a set simulating Manhattan's Blue Angel nightclub, Bean casually introduces a few expert acts (including, on one program, Comic Leo De Lyon, who can whistle and hum two songs at once) and spends the rest of the all-too-brief half an hour in bland comedy. Example: the prizes for a contest run by the National Kumquat Growers' Association - $5,000 worth of sneakers (size 17E), six miles of dental...
Unhappy Medium. Coates has hired a lie-detector expert, who weeds out phonies trying to get on the program, sometimes uses the detector on the program itself. Once, after showing infrared pictures of seances run by a spiritualist, he gave the lie-detector test to the medium. She flunked it miserably. Says Coates: "In stead of turning people against her, we got many letters saying it was a terrible thing to do to that poor woman. We also used the detector on a so-called jet-propulsion expert who claimed that he had flown in a flying saucer from White...
Although Coates admittedly tries for sensationalism, he claims "a fastidiousness" in the handling. "At no time do I cast myself in the role of the expert," he says. "I play the reporter. We carefully use psychiatrists and authorities in any particular field . . . Even on crime stuff, I'm just a reporter and let the police and others say why a certain kind of bunko game, for instance, is a danger to the community . . . The main purpose of the show is to take the viewer where he couldn't or wouldn't ordinarily...