Word: timed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Yiddish phrases and good, bad and indifferent jokes. They show him gradually, despite his embattled stand for integration, winning the hearts of all his white, Southern, Gentile neighbors. But in this game of hearts lurks a menacing queen of spades-the unsuspected fact that Golden had once served time in prison for mail fraud. It overhangs his life, until at last it breaks out in the headlines-only for all who know Harry Golden not just to rally round him but to render him homage...
...libretto, and with Mary Martin as the star-provides "What's in a name?" with at least one answer: "A $2,325,000 advance sale.'' The show itself, in accordance with Rodgers and Hammerstein's desire not to repeat themselves, goes to Austria at the time of the Anschluss for its story, to the famous Trapp Family Singers, who dramatically escaped from the Nazis' clutches. Besides Captain Georg von Trapp, there were his seven children and their governess, a young novice from a neighboring abbey, who taught the children to sing, won their love...
...investigations widened and public suspicion grew, two arguments in defense of TV and allied entertainment fields, kicked up by volunteers and TV's own flashy flacks, were heard again and again: 1) plugs, payola and all that jazz have been around for a long time; 2) why pick on TV when other businesses are corrupt, too? The case was typically put last week by Newscaster Jacques Legoff of Detroit's WJBK-TV (one of the five TV stations owned by the Storer Broadcasting Co.). Legoff, who had not reported the first quiz scandal stories until three days after...
...some of Clark's own tunes that became hits (Tallahassie Lassie, Okefenokee), he and Mammarella insist that they were played only because they were popular already. But Clark has also spun his Way Down Yonder in New Orleans, which is just now beginning to climb into the big time. Clark insists that he has never taken payola in any form, and many support him, including ABC. Says a Philadelphia record distributor: "Dick is a living doll. I've offered him pieces of songs and gotten turned down cold...
...trying to get the facts on Musicman Clark, investigators were widening their search. New York County D.A. Frank Hogan subpoenaed the financial records of eleven record companies; one owner immediately announced that he had a pile of canceled $100 checks endorsed by disk jockeys. The story would take some time to unfold. "The last thing most people in this industry want is to clean it up," admitted one musicman. "It's too lucrative for too many people...