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Stempel writes the statement. Enright explains that his lawyer recommended telling the D.A. about Stempel's alleged blackmail, but for fear that disclosure would "destroy" Herb, Enright kept quiet...
After five winning weeks, said Herb, he hit his mentor for a $17,000 advance-and got it. "See," he crowed, as he told his story last week, "the show has to be phony, or I wouldn't have got the dough. Why, I could have lost everything, and Enright would have been...
...Mahal is; I was forced to say that Gothic architecture originated in Germany when I know damn well it was France. See, that's the trend now: a big winner will have to flub the easy ones to make the American public look good." Eventually, said Herb, Enright told him, "We've reached a plateau. We need a new face." Herb was forced to lose to Van Doren-and that tore...
Petty Chiseling. At week's end some of Herb Stempel's friends and a maid who had once worked for the family told newsmen that they could testify to the truth of Herb's claims. Herb, they said, had told them well in advance of his appearances on the show just which questions he would answer, which he would miss. Eventually a jury may decide whether or not Stempel is telling the truth. But the kind of blatant crookedness charged in Stempel's story was not the only issue...
Long before the investigations cease, TV bigwigs may be ready to accept Herb Stempel's forthright solution for their scandal: "Get rid of giveaways. All these vaults and isolation booths are just obfuscation of the public. The networks can't control the gimmicks and the gizmos...