Word: whats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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On his Today show, Dave Garroway wept. Said he: "I came to love Charles. He wronged himself, of course." Then Garroway broke down, left the show. Few viewers knew that the sequence was taped the afternoon before; NBC kept it in the can overnight, sobs and all, then put it...
I've learned a lot about life. I've learned a lot about myself, and about the responsibilities any man has to his fellow men. I've learned a lot about good and evil. They are not always what they appear to be. I was involved, deeply...
I had supposed I would win a few thousand dollars and be known to a small television audience. But from an unknown college instructor, I became a national celebrity. I received thousands of letters and dozens of requests to make speeches, appear in movies and so forth. To a certain...
"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...
Other Frauds. More significant even than the question of the networks' culpability or negligence about the quiz shows was the question of what the whole affair suggests about the TV industry in general. "It could happen to anyone," says NBC Board Chairman Robert Sarnoff. But it seems plain that...