Word: standing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Waiting nervously in a studio anteroom one morning, a Dotto stand-by contestant had noticed a woman contestant, already a steady winner, stealthily studying a set of notes. When the woman left the room -and left her notes behind-the stand-by grabbed them. A quick reading told the tale: someone was feeding the woman advance information. Her answers were all prepared; she could not lose. The stand-by rushed to a Dotto bigwig with the incriminating evidence and peddled his promise of silence...
...person who had been hanging around the show for days, the only real surprise was the stand-by's shock at his discovery. "Every single one of us was briefed beforehand," one Dotto winner told TIME last week. "But it was all done so subtly, you could never say positively that you'd been given any specific answer. One day I finally went up to one of the producers and said: 'How on earth can you get away with it?' He looked me right in the eye and said, 'I don't know what...
...Dotto's note-grabbing stand-by was far from happy with his hush money. He brooded for days, finally took his information to the FCC. Within hours Colgate Palmolive had a copy of his affidavit, the networks were informed, and everyone was in a lather. Everyone was also in agreement-Dotto was blotto. CBS replaced the daytime show with another quiz, Top Dollar. NBC, reading the public reaction more accurately, tried a whole new category: filmed drama...
...draws $10,000 to $30,000 a year, often plus apartment. That alone gobbles up 40? of every revenue dollar. West Coast golf club maintenance workers got 80? an hour in 1950; today they get $1.60. Virtually every club loses on its dining room. The club kitchen must always stand ready to serve food to a hundred or a handful. "And believe it or not," complains President G. Walter Ostrand of Chicago's big, choosy Medinah Club, "breakage of dishes and disappearance of silver costs us $5,000 to $10,000 a year...
...more than a $100 deficit for each member. Olympic earned $55,241 on the bar and $7,635 from rooms; it fell into the hole on golf ($67,547), food ($23,062), dressing rooms and lockers ($4,754), also lost on general administrative expenses, the telephones and cigar stand...