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...refreshing and reassuring to know those people on the TV quiz shows were frauds. It was very discouraging to believe that anyone could know so much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 7, 1959 | 12/7/1959 | See Source »

Your otherwise excellent article on the quiz-show scandals neglected the real culprit -that vice president from the Manufacturers Trust Co. We peasants from the sticks were counting on him and his uniformed bank guards to vouchsafe the purity and integrity of The $64,000 Question. He let us down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 7, 1959 | 12/7/1959 | See Source »

...Quiz & the Answers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 7, 1959 | 12/7/1959 | See Source »

...long time; 2) why pick on TV when other businesses are corrupt, too? The case was typically put last week by Newscaster Jacques Legoff of Detroit's WJBK-TV (one of the five TV stations owned by the Storer Broadcasting Co.). Legoff, who had not reported the first quiz scandal stories until three days after they broke because he "thought it would all blow over," angrily came to his industry's defense. "What about the buyers in department stores, in grocery stores? 'Buy one case of my product and you get one free. You buy my blue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: On the Brink? | 11/30/1959 | See Source »

...Apropos quiz shows-a timely comment from Sir Walter Scott...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 23, 1959 | 11/23/1959 | See Source »

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