Word: fixer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nivins the Nightshade. The payola game brought Disk Jockey Clay in contact with a string of Damon Runyon-like characters, including Nat ("The Rat") Tarnapol, artist-and-repertory man for Roulette records, and Promoter Harry Balk, indicted earlier this year as a fixer of newspaper puzzle contests (TIME, March 9). But the most lizardous type Tom Clay ever encountered was Harry Nivins, a bald, cherubic nightshade who proved to be Tom's downfall...
...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 question before air time...
...Approached by a friend. Mrs. Hill agreed to have an entry submitted in her name-she did not even have to make it out. When it won. she banked $300 of the take and. as agreed, surrendered $2.300 to the friend-who turned it over to the fixer after subtracting $150 as an arranger...
...fixer," who works on price tags, transposes the 78? tag from 2 Ibs. of hamburger to a $3.38 steak. In Southern California, where supermarket arrests rose 50% this year, a top security agent caught mothers who train their children to help mommy with the shoplifting by toting parcels out through the guard rails...
...never make his premise hold water, Playwright Krasna (Dear Ruth, John Loves Mary) gets his fun out of the way it leaks. The laughs come also because Peter Lind Hayes, Mary Healy, and most particularly Ray Walston make a nimble trio as the husband, the wife and the fixer; while Rouben Ter-Arutunian provides a sequence of ingenious sets...