Word: bunko
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Staccato (NBC, 8:30-9 p.m.). Johnny sniffs the scent of a bunko artist at work as soon as the good little girl donates .all her cash to a mission house...
...sort of rerun that can hardly be seen too often: an object lesson in the perils that beset the average consumer from supermarket to sidewalk grifter. The White Collar Bandit is a true-life report from the files of Manhattan's Better Business Bureau, redolent of assorted bunko artists, con men and garden-variety gyps...
...make in the years ahead." Harry S. Truman, holidaying in Manhattan, snapped during an early-morning walk that he was "just about as thoroughly bored with Mr. Dulles as the President was." Truman also said that the television report had been "fixed up by BBDO"-which he defined as "bunko, bull, deceit and obfuscation...
...time do I cast myself in the role of the expert," he says. "I play the reporter. We carefully use psychiatrists and authorities in any particular field . . . Even on crime stuff, I'm just a reporter and let the police and others say why a certain kind of bunko game, for instance, is a danger to the community . . . The main purpose of the show is to take the viewer where he couldn't or wouldn't ordinarily go. It's a slice of life...
...yellow. It takes a real man to go through a picket line when he is ordered to do so by his International Union. . . . The man who observes the . . . decisions of his superior officers in the union is the real union man. The other fellow is, in most instances, a bunko artist who is looking for a chance to prove how good...