Word: quiz
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ever explained why the House subcommittee investigating TV quiz shows never called a St. Louis Army supply clerk named Teddy Nadler. Maybe the probers believed that Teddy honestly knew all about classical music, history, mythology, baseball-the astonishing assortment of information that won him $264,000 on The $64,000 Challenge. But whether the legislators were fooled by the champion or not, last week another Government agency got hold of Teddy. The Bureau of the Census gave him an eminently unfixed quiz with a slim, two-week, $13-a-day prize, and Teddy flunked on the first round...
...Revson brothers have a talent for making headlines. In the quiz-show scandals last fall Brother Martin was described to House investigators as the RevIon executive who attended the weekly $64,000 Question producer sessions where contestants-and their longevity on the Revlon-sponsored series-were discussed. Martin denied any knowledge of rigging, pointed out that he no longer worked for Revlon anyway. Charles testified that he left Question questions to Martin, refused to discuss why his brother had quit...
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...
...story. At 10 p.m., the taping of his show completed, Paar went home to Bronxville. And that was the moment when history pointed a relentless finger at Ernest Lee Jahncke Jr., a broadcasting veteran (for 15 years vice president at ABC) who had been brought to NBC after the quiz scandals to serve as director of the network's Department of Standards and Practices...
...hits of the season: a) Mickey Rooney. b) Jackie Gleason. c) Art Carney. d) Lawrence Welk. 73. In the wake of the TV investigations, all three major networks promised that they will: a) Devote at least one hour every week to public-service shows. b) Drop all quiz shows...