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Once, Snodgrass doublecrossed his collaborators by answering a question correctly when he was scheduled to goof. And at least three times before he eventually lost as requested, he wrote himself registered letters spelling out his questions and answers in advance of his appearance on the show. Turned over to the district attorney last week, those letters, says Snodgrass, will prove to a grand jury that he and someone on Twenty One were involved in a fix. "Surprised" by Artist Snodgrass' testimony. NBC officials faced up to the fact that the quiz scandal has not died and promised "to launch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Quiz Scandal (Contd.) | 10/6/1958 | See Source »

WMGM set itself up for the goof at 9:55 a.m. by a thrilling announcement that it was trying to reach General Charles de Gaulle (see FOREIGN NEWS) by telephone for a scoop on the French crisis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Viva la WINS! | 6/9/1958 | See Source »

...done to rekindle the desire? "The answer is not simple," said Brower, "because the mediocrity of salesmanship is only part of our pattern of being willing to settle for something less than the best. For this, in America, is the high tide of mediocrity, the great era of the goof-off. The land has been enjoying a stampede away from responsibility...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SELLING & MARKETING: The New Mediocrity | 6/2/1958 | See Source »

...mean," said the jazzman, pointing to the text, "we goof around here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Cool, Cool Bards | 12/2/1957 | See Source »

Andy, of course, is a goof artist. He is a menace on the rifle range, gets his outfit gigged for dirty barracks, spends a weekend emergency pass for home with one of the blonde natural beauties of Southern California. Then, one day, he kicks a live grenade into a sump and saves a buddy's life. He becomes an overnight hero and, more slowly, a soldier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Private Hargrove Was Here | 6/4/1956 | See Source »

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