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Anchoring the halfback line is Chris Nielsen, a hustler billed as Amherst's most spectacular performer. Behind him Amherst uses a three-back defense similar to that installed by Harvard Coach Bruce Munro this year...
...Lowe, who is Carol Channing's husband, manager and sometime producer. In pretrial hearings, Sparger swore that he had met Lowe only casually, had spoken on the phone with him at most twice, and had not "received any money from Mr. Lowe for any purpose." Double checking, Nielsen detectives got two depositions to the contrary. The first, from Bell Telephone companies, revealed that Sparger and Lowe had recently exchanged not two but at least 40 calls. The second, from a woman teller at Oklahoma City's Liberty National Bank, disclosed that she had cashed for Sparger...
Before these depositions came out, Lowe denied to the press that he had ever done business with Sparger. He also signed an affidavit, say Nielsen spokesmen, indicating that he had no connection with any rigging. To debate the contradictory evidence, lawyers for Nielsen, Sparger and Lowe met in Chicago over the July 4 weekend. Nielsen's man suggested that the company would drop the suit if Sparger would make a complete, Nielsen-ghosted public confession of his activities and Lowe would pay $100,000 to cover the company's expenses in the case. Sparger and Lowe rejected...
...survey of the show's "commercial effectiveness," presumably by polling viewers. Such an analysis is commonly made by sponsors if not by producers. In any case, Lowe noted, it is "ridiculous and incredible to believe that Carol Channing should need any help," because in both the Nielsen and Arbitron ratings, her special outdrew the second-place show in the time slot by millions of viewers. And even if somebody wished to rig the ratings, it would seem ridiculous for him to pay by check...
...Nielsen's chief trial lawyer, George McBurney, conceded that his evidence so far is only circumstantial. "But you've got to admit," he added, "that it's pretty good. And this is just the start...