Word: payola
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...quarter, due mostly to extra-heavy development expenses on the DC-8 jetliner program. At Columbia Broadcasting System, Chairman William S. Paley had an unruly meeting on his hands, with irate stockholders complaining over lower earnings (slightly less than 1959's 87? for the first quarter), the payola TV scandals and a handful of other problems. Said Chairman Paley: "We used to look forward to these meetings. Now we anticipate them with dread...
...forces" to study state problems and prepare legislative proposals, backed down in the face of lawmakers' complaints that he was grabbing all the credit. Soothingly, Rocky announced that his task forces would henceforth be called "legislative cooperating committees." ¶Because of "unpleasant connotations" acquired by the term during payola investigations, "disk jockey" was banned from the air by Poughkeepsie, N.Y.'s station WEOK. WEOK's deejays are now to be known as "musicasters." ¶ Admiral Arleigh Burke, Chief of Naval Operations, announced that he would henceforth spell "Communism" with a "K," just like the Russians. Why? Explained...
Watching the continuing story of rigged quizzes and widespread payola roll off the presses in the past year, many radio and television spokesmen tended to criticize the newspapers for printing the news rather than blame their own industry for making it. Last week, with the chip on his shoulder showing, a Columbia Broadcasting System executive announced that his network plans to turn a beady eye on the press...
When the explanations were finished, Ike said quietly: "If you want to offer your resignation, it will be accepted." Doerfer might have got off easier if he had not cruised through hot water with Storer once before. In 1958-long before the rigged quiz and payola investigations-Doerfer told the House Subcommittee on Legislative Oversight that he had spent a week in Florida and the Bahamas at Storer's expense, and admitted that he had also accepted at least $1,000 worth of airline tickets, hotel bills, fees for speeches, and the loan of a color TV set, from...
...M.I.T.'s Director of Admissions B. Alden Thresher ("The thicker the folder, the thicker the student"). He insisted on a letter from a math teacher instead. And the point has sunk in. Says Amherst's Dean of Admission Eugene S. Wilson: "I haven't had any payola offered to me in years-not even a chocolate...