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WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY Marcus Nadler, Wall Street pulse taker, professor of finance. New York University LL.D...
...most disappointing characteristic of the economy was the lack of a strong spring housing upturn. But such weak spots have failed to check the slow general expansion of the economy. Commented Dr. Marcus Nadler, consulting economist of the Hanover Bank of Manhattan...
...ever explained why the House subcommittee investigating TV quiz shows never called a St. Louis Army supply clerk named Teddy Nadler. Maybe the probers believed that Teddy honestly knew all about classical music, history, mythology, baseball-the astonishing assortment of information that won him $264,000 on The $64,000 Challenge. But whether the legislators were fooled by the champion or not, last week another Government agency got hold of Teddy. The Bureau of the Census gave him an eminently unfixed quiz with a slim, two-week, $13-a-day prize, and Teddy flunked on the first round...
...reading, i.e., showing that he could stay within his assigned area, spot landmarks, figure the distance to the city limits, etc. The Census Bureau decided that there was no sense in hiring a man who might get lost before he got out of town. "This is no reflection on Nadler's intelligence," said a kindly bureau spokesman, who added that nearly half the applicants flunk the test. But the fact remained: the man who had taken the networks' quizmasters for more than a quarter of a million had failed when he tried for a lowly 13-buck payoff...
Many were the kinds of fixes, testified Koplin. Among them: the Area Fix, i.e., questions were pitched within the contestants' strong and specific areas of knowledge. (This was usually the case, declared Koplin, with Challenge's Teddy Nadler, who won $252,000.) There was also the Playback (questions had been asked in pre-game tests) and the Emergency (questions and answers were given the contestants, usually just before the show). "Emergencies" produced some Keystone Cops fiascos; often the fixer had to spring down to the celebrated bank vault, where the questions were held, quickly slip in the rigged...