Word: oftenly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...there is anything calculated to make a good reporter's blood boil, it is that growing journalistic bugbear, the hold-for-release story. Although there is a legitimate use for the hold-for-release, as with, for example, advance copies of speeches, more often it is a device used by pressagent types anxious for simultaneous nationwide news splashes. Government agencies are prime offenders, and the automobile industry has virtually canonized the hold-for-release. But now and again, some brave journalistic spirit dares defy the restrictions-as last week did the New York Times and its Women...
Russell was shooting at his best (7 for 19 from the floor, 8 for 8 from the foul line), and he out-rebounded Chamberlain 35 to 28. Chamberlain was tense and annoyed with himself for shooting poorly. He took 38 shots from the floor, sank only 12, and missed often from the foul line (6 for 12). But Russell, rated the game's greatest defensive player, could not keep Rookie Chamberlain from ending the evening as the game's high scorer with 30 points...
...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 question before air time...
They did not have far to search, for television is shot through with major and minor forms of corruption. There are the phony commercials: the foam in the beer glass, which is often really soap suds; the home permanent on the pretty model, often the result of a two-hour session with a hairdresser. Last week, the FTC issued a complaint against Libby-Owens-Ford Glass Co. and General Motors, charging "camera trickery" on commercials, e.g., pictures were taken through open windows that were supposedly taken through clear plate glass. There is the blatant, organized sale of plugs...
Nevertheless, TV could not escape the charges of mediocre imagination, too much shoddy programing, too much imitation of established formulas (there are some 35 cowpokes on TV this year, 62 gumshoes). Such is the dearth of quality that the considerable number of competent shows are often gratefully hailed as excellent, and the handful of really first-rate programs are greeted as virtually miraculous...