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Surprise will not only toss around nearly twice as much money as Question; it also promises to be at least twice as complicated. Containing elements of Talent Scouts, telephone quizzes, and the bygone "Miss Hush" mysteries of radio's Truth and Consequences, Surprise will ask viewers to supply the name of someone who is about to receive a surprise-a promotion, a plaque, a reunion with relatives, in fact, anything at all. The "surprise" will then be shown on the program, and that clears the way for one of those concerned-either the surprisee, the talent scout, or some...
...defend her good name against the ugly, unfounded and scurrilous attack, ... to discourage this magazine and others of its ilk from making similar unfounded attacks on innocent people." Giesler followed up with a $3,000,500 suit in behalf of Negro Entertainer Sammy Davis Jr. against Hush-Hush magazine. The suit was based on a recent article about Davis and a blonde night club dancer...
...privy walls'' to a "sewer sheet of supercharged sex." But with each bimonthly issue, printed on cheap paper and crammed with splashy pictures, Confidential's sale has grown even faster than its journalistic reputation has fallen. It has also spawned a dozen guttery imitators, e.g., Hush Hush, The Lowdown, Exposed, Uncensored, On the Q.T. In Hollywood Cinemactor Humphrey Bogart reports that "everybody reads it, but they say the cook brought it into the house." In Chicago a society matron summed up the simultaneous appall and appeal that she feels for the magazine: "I've read...
...father (his mother renounced all claims to the custody of her son when she divorced his father in 1920, and a trust of upwards of $300,000 was set up and later turned over to the lad). Schlesinger said that his mother had put $500,000 in a "hush-hush" Louisiana oilfield. As recounted in the indictment, he said that "Mrs. Harrison Williams had authorized him to sell a 10% interest in the Louisiana Oil Syndicate [through Glore, Forgan] to afford Glore, Forgan an opportunity to make a commission [and] solidify his position with Glore, Forgan...
Clouds piled high over Churchill Downs.Lightning flickered, and a few drops splashed from the thunderheads. The band broke into My Old Kentucky Home, the mint-julep vendors stopped their spiel, and the carnival that was the 81st Kentucky Derby slowed down to a hush...