Word: fixe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...housing starts will ease off to 1,200,000 from 1,350,000 this year, said Paradiso, because of tight money. But the demand for appliances and furniture will continue to go up. Instead of buying a new house, more consumers will fix up the present one, leading to an increase in remodeling expenditures...
...comparing a TV quiz show with another form of TV "suspenseful entertainment": championship golf, or perhaps football's game of the week. No one would defend a fix in sports on the wild notion that it added more...
Many were the kinds of fixes, testified Koplin. Among them: the Area Fix, i.e., questions were pitched within the contestants' strong and specific areas of knowledge. (This was usually the case, declared Koplin, with Challenge's Teddy Nadler, who won $252,000.) There was also the Playback (questions had been asked in pre-game tests) and the Emergency (questions and answers were given the contestants, usually just before the show). "Emergencies" produced some Keystone Cops fiascos; often the fixer had to spring down to the celebrated bank vault, where the questions were held, quickly slip in the rigged...
...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 he was not in on the fix. He filed a $500,000 suit against NBC, the show's producers (Barry & Enright Productions) and the sponsor (Procter & Gamble). What's more, argued Clark, his eye on an even bigger payoff, the fix cost him a possible $40,000 in winnings. He sued for that...
Kinter testified before a House commerce subcommittee, which has uncovered numerous instances of backstage maneuvers to fix the outcome of quiz shows, even to giving contestants the correct answers in advance...