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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wellrounded" musician on the order of Leonard Bernstein, whom he idolizes "except for his popular music-I can't appreciate that." Meantime, the problem in the Hollander family is to find a house with an extra room: father and son find they cannot practice anywhere within earshot of one another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Teen-Age Virtuoso | 11/16/1959 | See Source »

...duped as the viewing public, but it became fairly well evident that, if they did not know about the quizzes, it was because they had not wanted or had not tried to know. The whole affair, wrote the New York Times, focused attention "on a shocking state of rottenness within the radio-television world and on the 'get-rich-quick' schemes through which so many people were corrupted and so many millions deceived. What has been revealed is deplorable in respect to the level of public morality both in the industry and in the individual...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: The Tarnished Image | 11/16/1959 | See Source »

Many were the kinds of fixes, testified Koplin. Among them: the Area Fix, i.e., questions were pitched within the contestants' strong and specific areas of knowledge. (This was usually the case, declared Koplin, with Challenge's Teddy Nadler, who won $252,000.) There was also the Playback (questions had been asked in pre-game tests) and the Emergency (questions and answers were given the contestants, usually just before the show). "Emergencies" produced some Keystone Cops fiascos; often the fixer had to spring down to the celebrated bank vault, where the questions were held, quickly slip in the rigged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: How It Was Done | 11/16/1959 | See Source »

...Pattern Repeated. Within 48 hours after he quit ABC, Kintner had an offer to join NBC as executive vice president in charge of color coordination ("I didn't know a damn thing about color"), took charge of TV operations in February 1958. That July he was named president, with a ten-year sliding-scale contract that pays him upwards of $150,000 yearly. Kintner frankly admits that he applied his ABC formula: canned series, westerns, private eyes-plus quizzes. He knifed Wide Wide World, Omnibus, live dramatic shows (including Kraft Theater). Says he: "I had to catch up with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The Ultimate Responsibility | 11/16/1959 | See Source »

...billion, and at least 90 new stores join the ranks each month. This week, Britain's fastest growing chain, Cookie (Allied Bakeries) Magnate Garfield Weston's Fine Fare Ltd., will open three big supermarkets in a single day, plans to double his chain of 39 stores within the next year. Weston, who controls Loblaw's Groceterias (228 stores) in Canada, and National Tea Co. (917 stores) in the U.S., is also training his super sights on Germany, where scores of new markets have opened this year in the heavily industrialized areas of the Rhine and Ruhr...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BUSINESS ABROAD: La M | 11/16/1959 | See Source »

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