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...Quiz-show scandals, payola and labor-union graft are simply the result of a trend of the times...
After reading your story, "The Defense Budget," in the Nov. 30 issue, I am convinced that the financial immorality practiced by industry and Congressmen puts to shame the recent so-called TV quiz scandals, and by comparison makes the occasional hanky-panky payola participants a puny and feeble...
...magazine-like mixture of fiction, fact and fun. A typical evening's fare last week offered song (Perry Como Show) and adventure (R.C.M.P., a realistic serial on the Mounties, which cartoonists are fond of lampooning), but gave equal time to Live a Borrowed Life, a sprightly historical quiz, and Explorations, a well-filmed exposition of the odd migration habits of animals, birds and fish...
...most remarkable wives in the country-she has had seven marriages but only three actual husbands." The entry on Charles Van Doren was hastily updated to include a reference to his October shame: "Suspended by NBC . . . pending the outcome of the congressional investigation of rigged quiz programs...
...YORK, Dec. 8--Louis G. Cowan resigned today as president of Columbia Broadcasting System's television network. He asserted he was forced out because of an innocent association with the rigged quiz show, "$64,000 Question...