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...Shall he [or she] go for it?" had been asked every week since the program's first contestant drew in sight of the big jackpot. By the time Bible-quoting Mrs. Catherine Kreitzer and Opera Lover Gino Prato stopped at $32,000. newspapers were explaining (often with contradictory results) just how much a final winner would have to give the Government in taxes. Most figurers agreed that if a contestant won a $64,000 jackpot, his additional $32,000 would be pared down to a mere $10,000 by the cruel revenooers...
...sidewalks and deceptively innocent-looking back lots that watched it in the life. The actors try hard to weather naturally into the scene. Edward Andrews succeeds wonderfully: he hits the apogee of Southern villainy as he slomires agreeably about town, sweet-talking old ladies, flipping quarters like a slow jackpot, and looking all the while like a fat, greasy thumb that has been stuck too long in the pork barrel...
...inevitable descended last week upon CBS's $64,000 Question. Rival NBC announced a new program, scheduled to start Oct. 8. Its name: The Big Surprise. Its jackpot: $100,000. Not too surprisingly, Surprise comes from the same fertile source as Question-the inventive office of Louis G. Cowan...
...Jackpot. This week there remained some hesitancy about The Question's staying power. Can it ever, for example, get contestants to go for the full $64,000? Nonetheless, there was a familiar sound in the air-the sheeplike rustle of competitors rushing to get similar shows on the TV screens. Mutual Broadcasting System headquarters buzzed with talk about a quiz show with a jackpot of $250,000. All that is needed, confided Mutual's Pressagent Frank Zuzulo, is a group of three sponsors to finance it. An independent TV packager is reported canvassing the networks with a proposal...
With Kitty Foyle, Author Christopher Morley hit a novelist's jackpot: a bestseller and a Class A movie. It was that familiar, marketable love story of the 30s about a poor working girl (25% Irish) and a Philadelphia scion (seventh-generation Main Line). The well-paced narrative (girl meets boy, girl gets boy, boy does not marry girl) was not helped by the predictability of the incidents nor the faded charm of slick writing about young love. On TV, Kitty was just an old-fashioned tearjerker with not enough strength left to jerk the tears...