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...Murray Show (NBC, 2-2:30 p.m.). A new word game, carefully unrigged, begins under the guidance of Comedian Jan Murray...
...meters. The greatest swimmer in history, Konrads drives himself six miles a day in training, gulps as many as 18 vitamin pills before a race, treats distance events as sprints and holds seven world records. But Konrads may have to swim faster than ever before to beat Teammate Murray Rose, 21, winner of both the 400 and 1,500 meters at Melbourne's 1956 Olympics, and Japan's stocky Tsuyoshi Yamanalca, 21, who has smoothed out his rough arm stroke. In the 200-meter butterfly, Indiana's bull-shouldered Mike Troy, 19, will be the surest gold...
Selections from the Speeches (1900-1959) of Murray Seasongood (Knopf; $4.50), compiled and with a foreword by Agnes Seasongood. Orator Seasongood was mayor of Cincinnati from 1926 to 1930 and seems to have been a fairly fluent afterdinner speaker, but this cannot explain why the doughty firm of Knopf decided to set down his thoughts in Electra type, designed by W. A. Dwiggins...
Four months after the Federal Trade Commission accused him of boosting his $45 million-a-year business by deception and coercion (TIME, April 11), Dancer Arthur Murray cha-chaed his way out of the jam, hardly stubbing his toes. He agreed last week to an FTC consent order "to cease and desist" the practices, thus avoided a tough day in court and the prospect of even more damaging publicity. In exchange, the FTC closed its case...
...consent order, which is not technically an admission of guilt, forces the Arthur Murray studios to abandon most of their now famous promotional schemes. These included telephone calls asking prospects to name two former U.S. presidents who were once generals, "Lucky Buck" contests soliciting dollar bills whose serial numbers included a five and a zero, and zodiac-and crossword-puzzle contests. All offered free dance lessons as a reward for the right answers, but the FTC charged that the contests were too easy to be genuine, were used as bait with which high-pressure Murray salesmen conned prospects into signing...