Word: quiz
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...less fortunate prisoner of the personality racket is Alvin Pepler, a Newarker known as the "Jewish Marine" when he starred briefly on a TV quiz show during the '50s. Pepler's problem: he was dumped from the show when he wouldn't take a dive. He now wants Zuckerman to help publish his book about the scandal. In addition to this pathetic pest, there is a blackmailer who grows indignant when Nathan refuses to pay $50,000 to prevent the kidnaping of his mother: "Don't get high and mighty with me," says the caller. "Because...
...Crimson trivia quiz was compiled by Michelle D. Healy. Bruce Schoenfeld, Gwen Knapp, Jeffrey R. Toobin and James S. McGuire...
Fred Friendly, once president of CBS News, regards the ambush technique as "probably the dirtiest-trick department of broadcast journalism." He fears that abuses by television newsgatherers may bring on a new public attack comparable to the one spurred by television's earlier quiz scandals...
Goodwin was young then--young, even for the Kennedy people. In 1958, after graduating first in his class from the Harvard Law School, he clerked for Supreme Court Justice Felix M. Frankfurter. After working for a year on the House Commerce Commission's 1959 television quiz-show scandals, he joined the Kennedy Senate staff. By 1960 he and Theodore Sorenson were Kennedy's two chief speechwriters--indispensable to the campaign and to the formation of Kennedy's foreign and domestic policies. He was, in the words of Kennedy biographer Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., "the archetypal New Frontiersman," a quick-witted...
Near the back of the magazine, a 40-question quiz tells Eagle readers how well they will survive if thrown into the wilderness. Most of the questions are fairly easy to analyze ("Mostly see the negative side of things?... Make the best of bad situations?... Think more can be done through teamwork than alone?"). Much more interesting is the tantalizingly short profile of the author, Evan Peelle, Ph.D. "Dr. Peelle directs research and development for a private consulting firm, instructs at Cobray International, and consults with these organizations..." What kind of consultant, you ask? Will, she helps these organizations "plan...