Word: kreitzer
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Dates: during 1955-1955
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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...
...four amateur experts who would answer questions on their specialties. Adman Norman Norman sees Panelopoly as a sort of postgraduate course for contestants who have tried for the top money on The $64,000 Question. Explains Norman: "I got to thinking along this line when I realized that Mrs. Kreitzer and Gino Prato and Gloria Lockerman [the speller] were still big news long after they left the show. Why shouldn't we continue to take advantage of these people? They belong on Panelopoly...
...crucial week on CBS's The $64,000 Question. Everything turned on the decision of the show's current star, Mrs. Catherine E. Kreitzer, 54, Camp Hill, Pa. Bible student, mother of six sons, grandmother of nine. In three previous appearances, Grandma Kreitzer had answered ten questions about the Bible and won $32,000. Last week she had to decide whether she would take the $32,000 or let it ride on the chance of winning...
With more than 35 million people tuned in, Contestant Kreitzer came to the moment of decision and proved that she has a well-developed sense of both drama and humor. She briskly recalled how confident she had been that she would answer the $8,000, $16,000 and $32,000 questions. Then she serenely added: "And I am a little confident that I can answer the $64,000 question." The studio audience exploded into wild, sustained applause, certain that Grandma Kreitzer had decided to risk her winnings for the jackpot. "But," she continued as the applause died down...
After the show she let an error be known, too. Her quotation had come from Philippians rather than Ephesians. She also confided that she and her husband had no intention of spending her winnings at the same speed that she had won them. Said Winner Kreitzer: "I guess we'll probably put it away for our rainy days...