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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1959-10-29, Page 7How Quiz Shows Were Gindmikked Thirty million viewers sitting on the edge of their chairs to hear the dramatie battle of "brainpower" on a television quiz show. Spellbound multitudes in country hamlets and big cities watching facial contortions of perspiring contestants for huge get -rich -quick stakes. Millions of viewers being fooled and gulled, according to testimony pouring tato the House subcommittee on legis- lative oversight, by TV per- formances that were as phony as the fifth ace in a stacked pack. The day of his last appear- ance on the haw -defunct quiz show "21," a witness testified, the National Broadcasting Com- pany ran spot announcements all day excitedly demanding, "Will herb Stempel crash the $100,000 mark?" And Her b Stempel sat at home, according to his; sworn testimony before the committee, knowing that the "fix" that had permitted him to win drama- tically on previous appearances was going to demand that night that he muff an answer he knew perfectly well - the name of the motion picture "Marty" which he had seen three times. Other witnesses reinforce the charges. The very facial gestures were rehearsed. The wrinkled brow, the delayed answer, the sus- penseful gnawing at finger nails were all phony. All this up to the climax when they gave their triumphant reply, and the mas` ter of ceremonies shouted ex- ultantly - "Right! - that's the answer." The story, details of which "are now being unfolded in sor- did profusion in the big, rail- road -station -like caucus room of the House of Representatives, really goes back a long way. The channels for radio and TV belong to the public, but they have been handed out through the Federal Communi- cations Commission for use and exploitation by private enter- prise. Intrinsically they are., worth millions. The policy of active state re- sponsibility for cultural levers Exemplified in the Canadian and British practice, for ex- ample, of maintaining compe- titive programs has never found support in the United States. Supporting most of Mr. Stem- pel's charges Oct. 7 was Alfred David, publicity agent for the show. He testified under oath that Edwin Slote, an attorney representing the publicity firm for which he worked, first inti- mated to him that he should lie to the New York grand jury and districtattorney, and when he rejected this advice, that he should get out of town. There were dramatic moments, Mr. Davis testified, as members of the NBC staff, agents for "21," and public -relations men held secret strategy councils to bolstertheir collapsing prop- erty under the threat of im- pending exposure, writes Ri- chard L. Strout in the Christian Science Monitor. The Nati on. a 1 Broadcasting Company had bought the. show, be said, for a sum variously re- ported as between $2,000,000 and $4,000,000, The whole na- tion was watching it. There was only one, thing the matter, Mr. Davis reluctantly intimated. It was rigged. Mr. Davis testified that NBC officials at•the strategy confer ences seemed more interested in unfavourable publicity they faced from the charges than with the truth of the charges, Two additional witnesses tes- tiled that they experienced rigging practices on "21," Mrs, Rose Leibrand, who won $130 on Nov. 14, 1966, and Richard Jackman, an organizer for the Garment Workers Union, who won $24,500 in a single appear- anee Oct. 3, 1966, both testified. that they were coached, with supposedly "sample" questions in advance, which turned 'out to be actual questions. The Harris committee is in- vestigating not merely "21" but other TV quiz shows similarly suspect, All have been dropped. In numbers involved, it is es- timated that the rigged TV shows represent the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the people, not excepting Dr, Cook's claim to having discovered the North Pole. A Sailor Sees Dawn C11 A Beach The first soft streaks of a lovely dawn showed the dark sails like detached wings close upon. the sea, standing silently, with the vessels which bore them still hidden from view, There were many such sails, some with the high peaks of the swift lat- een, others more rounded. At that soft hour no wind blew. The Atlantic murmured gently on the shelving belch, as if loath to waken land and people to the new day. Many people were already awake, not only in those silent,. softly moving ships. The soft padding of a hundred barefoot fishermen and their wives pass- ed beside me in the street, as the fisherfolk headed 'for the beach and the day's work there. Some were leading cattle, a pair of bullocks yoked together, but with no other harness. Many men carried round fishing bas- kets, .as the dorymen do .in their little boats .on the Banks. The ' women were bundledup in black against the cool of the dawning, and some of them were speak- ing in quiet voices to their men, The men wore stocking caps, heavy shirts of bright plaids, and colorful trousers, though a few were dressed in black. The graceful sailing ferry which had brought me across the channel from near Aveiro came gently alongside the quay without a "sound, and I. stepped 'very quietly ashore. Nearby were several of those lovely sail- ing boats which hail from Ilhavo and Gafanha, and ply the river - fed, landlocked arms of the At- lantic there. In the soft light these boats Were beautiful, with their •grace, of line and decorat- ive coloring. Nothingwas to be seen that did not: fit in, not mar- iner nor fisherman nor boat, and the -reek of diesel and of petrol was not allowed at all. I made my way behind the fishermen towards the beach 'of Costa Nova, one of those grand and shelving beaches, wide open to the Atlantic swells, . where I knew the companies, of cooperative licher m,en still launched their great barcos, do mar on , such mornings as this and fished in the sea as Christ's disciples had done almost :2,000 years before. I wanted to see this fishing, and this- was a gond place. -, From . "Give Me a Ship to Sail," by Alan Villiers, Drive With Care 190N LE BON — Kneeling beauty Christiane Le Bon, 24, was voted the bst-dressed model in Paris three years ago, Now the 36.23-35 former Parisienne is a Las Vegas'show girl and (clothes aren't that much of a topic. HELLO OUT THERE - Seemingly trapped between the slats of a fence, Fritz, a year-old boxer, is actually standing sentry duty. He has his own "porthole" -through which he watches .life go by. Early Canadian Settlements. Canada's history is the record of venturesome men who ex- plored and brought to life a country surpassed in size only by Russia and China. The pio- neers crossed the oceans in. frail ships;.walked the rough wilder- ness in loneliness and .priva- tion, hewed their • fields "from forest or buffalo range, fought or soothed the Indians, endured cold, hunger and fatigue - and doffed their bonnets to none. They developed their own cus- toms and laws ... They carried with them the traditions of many lands; but the forms of. government they developed, while based chiefly. on' the ex- - ample of the United Kingdon), were made to fit Canadian needs. Today, among t h e proudest words in the mouth of a Cana- dian are those associated 'with • the frontier - pioneer, old - t m.e r, sourdough, voyageur, coureur de bois: They- •reflect the spirit of a people, •still more restless after 400 years of his- tory than the citizens of 'other lands who do not know the appeal of ' dim, far-off -:places where w h i t.e -man's foot has never trod. The frontier' spirit has ani- ' mated Canadians- 'in deed and thought, in education, research, business, art and music, as much as in physical, endeavour, When the last frontier of the North has been fully mapped, when every' sounding has been taken and every acre surveyed, the 'old spirit will remain in the character of the people. In1000 A.D. :the_first' white visitor came to- Canada's shores -Leif Ericson, out for adven- ture in his high-peowed Vik- ing ship, his men rowing with steady stroke down the coast of Nova Scotia. They tasted the sweet berries af., Canada and then went to Greenland. 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