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...year run on radio, and should be notably successful on TV. As before, Dr. I.Q. (Jay Owen) fires his questions from a theater stage while his four assistants track down contestants in the audience ("I have a lady in the balcony, Doctor!"). The quiz payoff is made in silver dollars, and the questions are as hard as ever ("Name the states that border on the Mississippi River"). With its dramatic values considerably heightened by television, Dr. I.Q. is not likely to remain unsponsored for long...
...Week, falls into the habit of fooling around with a blonde (Kathleen Hughes) instead of going dutifully home in the late afternoon. When he tries to break the habit, the blonde breaks the bad news: she wants $2,500 or she will tell his wife. The night of the payoff the blonde has a run-in with two other men-her husband (John Verros) and the head researcher of the writer's program (Edward G. Robinson), another of the many beaux to her string. Early next morning the dame is found dead...
...Eggers of Jersey City, is supporting Troast. One of Meyner's TV films shows three pairs of feet walking down cellar stairs, a reference to the former Republican state chairman's testimony that three gamblers once came to his basement recreation room to demand protection for their payoff. Meyner has flooded New Jersey's redolent air with a radio jingle to the tune of Carolina in the morning...
...victory for Fairchild and its president, Richard S. Boutelle, 55. It meant that the company's 9,000-man Hagerstown plant could keep running with almost no layoffs, when production of its own twin-tailed C-119 Packets tapers off next year. And it was also the final payoff in Fairchild's long and bitter wrangle with Kaiser, whose subsidiary. Chase Aircraft, had designed the C-123. The trouble started soon after Korea, when the Air Force farmed out an order for 159 of Fairchild's Cng cargo planes to Kaiser's Willow Run plant. Fairchild...
...from Hall's pocket and opened one of two suitcases in the room. It was filled with money. The policeman took Hall to the station, where Shoulders opened the second suitcase. When he saw the currency in it, he thought: "This has got to be the payoff on the Greenlease boy." He turned to Hall and said: "Now, mister, you're hooked. We know all about you." Replied Hall: "I know. I knew when you put that gun in my belly it was all up with...