The Ennis Daily News (Ennis, Tex.), Vol. 68, No. 257, Ed. 1 Friday, October 30, 1959 Page: 2 of 6
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Mr and Mrs. Tommy Maronoy
and Karon of Los Airholes. Calif',
and Mr. and Mrs. F M Crocker
and Mr and Mrs, l (' Oden all
Corsicana spent Sunday with
Rev and Mrs Claude Cordon
and family.
Mr and Mrs. Rill Fowler and
family of Weatherford spent the i
weekend with Mrs. Fowler’s par- j
ents Mr and Mrs Charlie Mur-
phy and other relatives.
Mr and Mrs A1 Shelton vis-!
jted relatives in Waco Sunday !
Mr .1 C rarKs returned from
a hunting trip in Colorado am
Mrs Parks vi-ited in Terrell
Mrs R K Rartlett visited in
Dallas.
Mr. and Mr4- Orin Gilbert at-
tended the funeral of Mrs. Gil-
bert s cousin. Charlie Kinp. in
Fnni* Wednesday afternoon. |
Gregory Bell of Dallas visited
Mr. and Mrs. Rex Newsome
1 and Stephan. Mrs. Betty Sue
Baldridge and Charlotte of Dal-
las were there Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. William Pollan
of Sheridan. Wyoming. Mr and
Mrs. Klbert Pollan. Dallas were
visiting relatives here last week
Mrs. Allie Perry of Ennis vis-
ited here Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. James Noel of
Bay City were guests of her mo-
ther Mrs. Lola Cockran Tuesday
Mrs. Fae Heather of Fort
Worth wore guests of her sister.
Mrs Kelly Loop Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Birdell Swafford
and Mr. and Mrs. Rufus Burl
Collegiate Die-
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The Washington Merry-Go-Round
By DREW PEARSON
By DREW PEARSON , marks of ratings well up in the-, questions she wasn't expected
The Merry-Go-Round , 30's. I would think the opport-1 be able to answer.
WASHINGTON. Oct. 30.— unities for promoting this are) But she had boned up on i>
Secret minutes kept by the high as great as it was when Phil j tng more than the prodie •
command ot the $64,000 quiz Baker used to play his accord- j realized. When they askt -I I
shows reveal that the question ion and he was only giving away . for the names of referee's in -
of rigging was raised on open- hairpins As I heard Lou Cowan | era] almost-forgotten lights
ing night. j say after the show—when h e rattled off the correct ai
After the first performance i jC0^pI^ j ,Pjone caU’ Fel'
of The $64,000 Question, grand-'
daddy of all big-money shows. I <CBS-TV President Cowan was
the advertising representative the original producer and own-1 1° remmeher im
conceded that “a little bit of rig- er of the $64,000 shows. His wife ^ers when she was
ring’’ might be necessary on op- reportedly still hold stock in the
ening night but warned that the production firm — Entertain-
reaction would be bad if the ment productions, Inc.)
public suspected ’‘trickery" be- MORE LOSERS NEEDED
hind the scenes I Ward’s confidential minutes
are full of references indicating
This prophetic advice came that some control was kept on
from Albert Ward of BBD & O i contestants,
advertising agency who record- - p was decided there was a
ed what happened at the brain- j definite need for the $64,0 0 0
storm sessions where the $64.*. Quesition* to have more losers.”
000 shows were planned. II i s declare the minutes on March
BBD&O stationery and marked 15 1957
"Confidential.” I Again on March 28. the min-1
After keeping minutes of the utes report: "Mr. Abrams
weekly meetings for two years; (George Abrams, then in charge
however. Ward was abruptly or-: of Hevlon’s advertising) talked
about the necessity of our hav-
ing losers in the lower cate-
gories.”
A notation on March 1 urges:
“There are many reasons why it
is necessary for both shows to
have women contestants. It was
agreed that—as an unwritten
rule*, there will be a woman on
rigging the each and every ‘Question’ and
- except to, 'Challenge* show.”
\ later note adds: "Decided
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dered to stop after he put i n
writing that Revlon, the sponsor
wanted certain contestants
knocked off the shows.
Revlon’s Martin Revson—who
presided over the meetings, ob-
jected that such a document
might be damaging if the puMic
got hold of it Actually Revlon
did not advocate
$64,000 programs
use tougher questions to elimi-
nate contestants without audi-
ence appeal
Ward’s notes were locked in
the BBD&O safe and no more
minutes were taken However,
the early minutes have n 0 w
been exhumed from the safe,
and examined by ihis column.
Am«»ng them is memo writ-
ten by Ward and dated June 8.
IQo^ «• ritir-trine the first Sfi4 •
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W ARNS AG \INST TRICKS
"The two contestants were
possibly a little too good looking
from my mind that
wish to remember ”
The Congressional con:
investigating t li e .i
scuttled quiz shows into
find out next week how
other contestants have
erasers.”
(COPRIGHT. 1959 — B\
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that children are needed on thei ^ear Readers
show.”
More specifically, the March
21 minutes declare "It was not
decided as to how much longer
Teddy Nadlcr 1 memory expert 1
woud continue on the ‘Chal-
lenge.’ ”
Also on March 7 "there was
extended discussion of t h c
probability of having Robert
Stroin (youthful science expert)
. » for the second and possibly
the third plateau
Tins column is satisfied from
and a little 1
loo hri
ght for th<
‘ interviewing participants in
real good of
! he
show ’ h »
’ these secret brainstorm sessions
wrote "Gran
fed a
n openinj
l however that neither the spun-
night may n»
•ed a
little bit 0
f sor tmr advertising had a n y
rigging to m.
ike it
rome 0 f
f dea advance answers were fed
properh hut
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' to contestants This was done h\
thl we are gei
awful rlos,
' the producers Entertainment
look on the
horn*'
s< reen am
1 Production**, which fjavo win-
nothing w It
ltevlon lool
1 mng tnswers to sortie contest
worse than if
the p
' ants on the $64 (Mil) Challenge
there iv M»m«
of trhken
' vvh* n the ratings began to drop
going on hell
mil tlu
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lidn’t l
’ For Hie most part, undesir-
the questions
to the
able contestants were eliminated
armed guard
from *
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a New York
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bank flanked
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York's finest
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' The svstent faihnl in the cave
of a plugged i
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•1 would
of Dr iovre Itrot iipr* first
woman to win *gi inni who *}>•
jM*ared as an expert on boxing
Since Halloween
around the corner I d hk•
gest that our little 1
treater” have a time
respect the tradition
truly happy to pn par.- > 1
the youngster^ hut I in
until 8 on is ample tmm
vade the neighhoi hoo-
lights could be li t' >11 i
it safe for them and tin
could patrol the stn «>>
time thus assuring ti •
mother that hei i lnld
less being siiimma rd
Heretofore l r<
9 30 nr to carlo
have been Krone
parts ot town to
bells, and it m.on
into an expense
pleasure
It thi' plan i-
l «l like to heai
it is. we could I
tor our neighbor!
have them hone
make it mot*' 1 on\
nice people \v t:o
treats
Mothers' let o
you!
Thanks
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Casebolt, Floyd W. The Ennis Daily News (Ennis, Tex.), Vol. 68, No. 257, Ed. 1 Friday, October 30, 1959, newspaper, October 30, 1959; Ennis, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth801639/m1/2/: accessed April 24, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Ennis Public Library.