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...popular commercial) he was Mr. Clean. So busy was the TV industry at its new purity kick that, according to the latest Madison Avenue gag, "CBS is about to move Church of the Air to prime evening time." NBC finally got around to bouncing the admittedly corrupt Tic Tac Dough, chose an apt replacement: Truth or Consequences. Still another lavish NBC giveaway, The Price...
...when told by Enright that more "would throw the budget out of whack"; then he had third thoughts, started to sue Enright for the other $9,500, got it. Apple-cheeked Kirsten Falke, then only 16, was picked up for Twenty One's penny-ante sister show, Tic Tac Dough, when she answered a call to audition as a folk singer. This led her to the office of Tic Tac Dough Producer Howard Felsher, who gave her answers and hints that she would get her big chance to sing on the show. "I botched it up," recounted poor Kirsten...
...fired by NBC only last week, told the Congressmen that he urged about 30 former contestants to lie to the grand jury, as he himself had done, naturally under oath (later Felsher returned to the grand jury, told the truth). How many of the nighttime programs of Tic Tac Dough were rigged? Answered Felsher: about 75%-and he had a simple explanation: "I was trying to put together an exciting show, and I never did feel that there was anything terribly wrong about...
...Last week the Air Force reported with relief that an Atlas C, an advanced test model, had passed a routine countdown, then soared some 5,000 miles downrange from Cape Canaveral to deliver its one-ton nose cone with satisfying accuracy near waiting recovery ships in the South Atlan tic. But the crowing was muted; the Air Force reported a "strong indication" that it had found the basic trouble, acknowledged the likelihood of more failures, but hoped for operational capability by year...
...identify himself. He said that he was a Christian, but this was denied: "Thou liest. Thou art a Ciceronian, for where thy treasure is, there is thy heart also." Deeply troubled by the dream, Jerome re tired into the desert of Calchis for four long years of mys tic solitude. On his return, he learned Hebrew and then devoted the main energies of his life to correcting and im proving the Latin texts of the Old and New Testaments in Rome and Bethlehem, later translated the Bible into its most enduring edition, the Latin Vulgate. He was an ex travagant...