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...months, a flood of complaints about misleading radio-TV commercials poured into the offices of the New York Better Business Bureau and Kings County (Brooklyn) District Attorney Edward S. Silver. To nail the offenders, Silver had policemen and policewomen pose as residents of apartments that were wired with tape recorders. The couples would answer the commercials, record the salesman's spiel when he called on them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RETAIL TRADE: The TV Sharpers | 1/31/1955 | See Source »

Last week a grand-jury investigation of the commercials was scheduled by County Judge Samuel Leibowitz. And as a warning, the judge "invited" 22 top radio-TV executives to send representatives to watch the proceedings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RETAIL TRADE: The TV Sharpers | 1/31/1955 | See Source »

Bowl Football Games (Sat. 1:45 p.m., NBC Radio-TV) Arkansas v. Georgia Tech. (Sat. 2 p.m., ABC Radio-TV) Navy v. Mississippi. (Sat. 4:45 p.m., NBC Radio-TV) Southern California v. Ohio State. (Sat. 1:45 p.m., CBS Radio-TV) Duke v. Nebraska...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: Program Preview, Jan. 3, 1955 | 1/3/1955 | See Source »

Years of Crisis: 1954 (Sun. 4 p.m., CBS Radio-TV). Roundup report by CBS foreign correspondents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: Program Preview, Jan. 3, 1955 | 1/3/1955 | See Source »

...champagne!"). It was the eighth and best of Weaver's big gambles. But it was not final proof that the spectacular, at $200,000 or more apiece, is going to pay off for NBC with the public, with the critics and with those all-impor-tants of radio-TV, the advertising...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Tall Gambler | 12/20/1954 | See Source »

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