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Things have been quiet in Coon Rapids, Iowa, since the clamorous visit of Nikita Khrushchev in September. Matter of fact, Khrushchev's Iowa host, corn-rich Farmer Roswell Garst, allowed last week that he had not even got a bread-and-butter note from his Soviet acquaintance. But Garst was taking the apparent ingratitude with equanimity: "Probably won't hear from him again until he wants something...
Some of his musical maturity Lorin gets from growing up with the sound of a violin in his ear: his father is a violinist, a former assistant concertmaster for Toscanini with the NBC Symphony. Lorin got his first violin when he was three ("I smashed it"), went on to the piano when he was five, and in his first day at the keyboard went through an entire book of beginner's exercises. By the time he was ten, Lorin was playing recitals, and he has been hard at it ever since. He scored his second big recital triumph last...
...four denied that the money was in any way considered an inducement to plug the Hess store in their columns. Nevertheless, that was what Hess got from three of the columnists. Said Considine, who wrote about the store's stock of exotic foods: "Made a nice little feature." Said Delaplane, who also wrote a complimentary piece after his Allentown visit: "His [i.e., Hess's] office did pay my expenses of $1,000 to travel to Allentown for the story." Said Boyle: "I have mentioned Hess four times on subjects of feature-news interest." Only the Journal-American...
...Producer Mert Koplin supplied the answers to him. "Cugie" won $16,000-and slipped 10% to his publicity man, who arranged his spot on the show for the pressagentry value of the thing. Cugie was no exception. On the Question and Challenge shows, 60% to 70% of the winners got help, testified Producer Koplin, and so did practically every winner who scaled the $32,000 plateau...
Then Kintner added the remarkable claim that NBC had got its "first established evidence of quiz-show rigging" only through the Washington hearings, and that he had not known about any kind of rigging until mid-August...