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...superiors would take revenge on him for cooperating in the grand jury's inquiry. The grand jury, which had already angered school officials by recommending that a policeman be stationed in every school, added its log to the fire by hinting that it would summon those officials to quiz them about the pressures they had put on Goldfarb...
...publicity stunts as an appearance by Jack Benny, dropped out of the Nielsen top ten for the first time in 2½ years. Strike It Rich is dropping right out of the CBS schedule next week. But given such variations as The Price Is Right or Twenty-One, the quiz show still seems good for many seasons to come...
...Negro "performer would hurt any national client's sales in the South. Said he: "This is nonsense. As an entertainer, I know I'm salable to all kinds of people, not just one race." Cole's decision was triggered when NBC proposed replacing him with a quiz show to bolster its Tuesday night ratings. The network offered him a Saturday evening spot instead. Said Cole, who had nothing but praise for NBC: "I decided not to take it. I feel played...
...Harvard graduate will attempt to win $87,000 on a television quiz program tonight. The contestant, David Mayer '42, a New York psychologist, says that he will give part of his earnings to the University...
Tuesday is fun-and-games day in the nation's 41 million TV parlors, with no fewer than eleven quiz shows in about as many hours. Best of the big batch is a witty, unpretentious panel quiz on CBS called To Tell the Truth (9 p.m., E.S.T.), which came to television almost a year ago from the well-stocked cupboard of Goodson-Todman,* purveyors of What's My Line...