WHO FIXED THE TV FIXERS? WALL ST. KNOWS THE ANSWERS

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP68-00046R000200050026-5
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• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 19, 2014
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Who Fixe? d the TV ()Fixers?
Wall St. Knows the Answerk
Ely MIKE NEWBERRY
AN EXECUTIVE of the Manufacturers Trust Co., at 44
Wall St. did not wish to talk to me about the "64,000 -Question",
the Quiz Show whose rigged questions. it "guarded-" in its
burglar-iroof, but apparently -not television producer-proof,
vaults.
"'I will send-you a prepared itatenient", he-said. -
No, he had no comment- on how; the-Wall Striset bank felt
about the Quiz. ;Show-114*K :140;'41fer.Juk4ctuttukrnt
Whether the bankers were disturbed by;:it. .No, he iusdno
c?Nmment on whether the Rouse ? Committee' on'rLegislativir
Oversight .(dr Hind:4114d)' watt :/plannit!g., to' sibietzin hank
officials. No, he. had no ooitiment. ' . ? ? 7
"Wasn't it true that having the:riigegl quisticascenarded.
ny the bank's vaults was just a 'publicity, stunt 'to hide the
hoax ?"-. he- was- asked. ?*
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No. he had no cornmentl : ?
? OTHERS SI'EAK
But others had already.- commented. Mart Roan,. fernier
nroducer of "$64,000' Question," ?testified before the Congres-
sional Investigators that it sonietisiei took Hsi almost a
whole week to rig the questions, and. the sometimes didn't
finish "his work': until the day before the bromicast. Then
he had to "rush down to the hank and piece the question
momentarily in the vault,, before- it was, returned for the
Rankers at Manufacturers ;Mist (which guarded the ?
$64,000 Question").-and Guaranty Trust, ,Which guarded the
rigged. questions -for the "36400 Cluillenge," both declared ?
they k-new nothing. ? ?
One reporter, John Fuller in the Saturday Review, in.
,,ined that "the banks were guiltless, though taken in along
with all of us."
? And yet I wondered how "two of New York's most vener-
pted financial -institutions" could -be taken in so by. TV huck-
sters. Why, I wondered, would' these banks, with $6,000,000,-
000 in combined assets, lend their names to a publicity gim-
Ack for a Quiz Show? Now I know: ;
BILLION DOLLAR QUESTION
Some of the biggest corporationg Uri hiding behind the
publicity smokescreen- of the Quiz. Mini scsndal.?
Among them are, Procter & Gamble, Lever, Bree.,,Colgate,
Bristol Meyers, Rehm Nestles, Borden*, 'Armour., Pont* Na.
tional Biscuit, American Remo_ Prducts, Standard Breeds,
General Foods, General 'Electric., General Mo-
tors, and all the other Generals of -Mg busbies.. ? ? '
The boards of these corporations Itre:erise-croined with
directors of the banks, and networks in,lved in the TV scan-
a I .
How do these men tie in with the 9uis Shows? tot's
look at the financial reCord: '?? ?
pIREcrons- OP MANUFACTURERS TRUST
A. G. DRUSH, Chairman of the Board, American Home
Prix:Holt (a big Quiz Show sponsor).
W: E. ROBINSON, director. of NBC, RCA; and Coca: Cola.
L. R. CRANDALL; director of-Seater& Bo** and Lever
Bros. subsidiaries, Quis Show sponsors. ??
I. A. VAN BOMEL? Chairinin of National Dairy pro-
ducts, one the largest TV and radio sponsors.
DIRECTORS OF GUARANTY TRUST
C. M. !WANKS, Director of National Biscut, Quit Silo,
sPonsor. ' ?
? ? ? R. T. STEVENS, director of General Electric, a Quiz S}A,,,
lionsoi,:and of the:Rockefeller Foundation, and fornicr Sen.-
?-y of Army. ?
? ? "7. E. :WILSON, director of General Motors, it Quiz Sl.oy.
? '-and former -Secretary of Defence.
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, This .partial list already contains five directors of Mitiiia
.facturers ? 7.'rust. end ,Guaranty Trust banks who are also
311i0ctizrit of corporations that sponsored quiz shows.
. . That's' only the -beginning of the story. Let's take I. look
-at the boards of the equally innocent TV networks.
THE "POOR" NETWORKS 6
I
U you 'Whin% the. testimony .hf network officials, thus ?
?knew nothing of the fakery, being in the entertainment bu-o-
n.,e. and unaware of sordid commercial details.
; Who 4re these "entertainers"?
' ROBERT 'LOVETT, of Eirofrn Bros., Harriman & GQ., di-
'rector of CBS Mid N. Y. Life Insurance.
? MRS. D..HORTOX?director of RCA (NBC) and N. .
Life Insurance.
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