Word: quiz
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Completed arrangements for an unprecedented hour-long television review of his two years in office, during which reporters from three networks would quiz him about his life and achievements in the White House...
Space was just getting boffo. TV at the time was reeking with quiz scandals, and Wolper decided that the respectable public-affairs bit held the treasuries of the future. He made his celebrated Race for Space, but the networks refused to show it, saying that they would never broadcast a public-affairs show over which they had not had total production control. So Wolper sold the program to 110 stations around the country, gaining as much exposure as he could have gotten on any network, plus major stories in the papers about the wretched treatment he was getting from...
...Haven't seen baked bananas lately." As chairman, chief stockholder, and tastemaker, Stouffer is on the road at least one-third of the time to keep up the standards. He likes to drop into his restaurants unannounced, order a meal as if he were just another customer, then quiz managers on such details as the amount of chicken broth that goes into Stouffer's official vichyssoise. Says Stouffer: "You can't delegate quality control...
...Caesar Sees It (ABC, 9:30-10 p.m.). Sid spoofs lawyer shows, police shows, quiz shows, westerns and panel shows...
...would like a reprint-or the Vacation Review Quiz (along with an answer sheet)-write to TIME INC., Box 1962, Radio City Station, New York 19, N.Y. Handling charge: 10? each...