Word: said
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...asked him to let me go on the program honestly, without receiving help. He said that was impossible. I would not have a chance to defeat Stempel. He also told me that giving help to quiz contestants was a common practice and merely a part of show business. Perhaps I wanted to believe him. He also stressed the fact that by appearing on a nationally televised program, I would be doing a great service to the intellectual life, to teachers and to education in general by increasing public respect...
Freedman regularly handed him the questions and answers, sometimes entire scripts, coached him to pause before some answers, skip parts of questions and return to them, building suspense. At one point, said Van Doren, Producer Dan Enright handed him a $5,000 advance and wished him Merry Christmas...
...horror-struck. I have said I received many letters. Thousands were from schoolchildren and students. All expressed their faith in me, their dedication to knowledge. I could not bear to betray that faith and hope. I felt that I carried the whole burden of the honor of my profession. And so I made a statement on the Garroway program the next morning that I knew of no improper activities on Twenty One and that I had received no assistance. I was, of course, very foolish. I was incredibly naive. I couldn't understand why Stempel should want to proclaim...
...Most of us have a great deal of larceny in us," drawled the Rev. Charles ("Stony") Jackson of Tullahoma, Tenn. "The fact that I am an ordained minister [Disciples of Christ] does not make me a saint." In 1957 Jackson wrote to The $64,000 Question, said he planned a book about quizzes (working title: Hucksters and Suckers), asked for help. The producers took the hint. Back came an invitation for Stony to audition as a contestant. The category chosen for the pastor: great love stories. After producers fed him the romantic answers in "screening" sessions, he rolled...
...Kintner said, in effect, that there was nothing wrong with television that a little vigilance and a few ex-FBI men could not take care of. He embodied TV's spirit of business as usual and business above...