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...question). Person to Person (sponsors: American Oil Co. and Hamm Brewing Co. alternating with LIFE) makes its pitch mainly to viewers who want to rubberneck in celebrities' homes. It deliberately casts Murrow, sitting in a Manhattan studio, as a discreet electronic guest whose job is to make polite chitchat, not ask probing questions. Murrow's own discomfort is sometimes visible, but he sold Person to Person as a package to CBS this year in a capital-gains deal, thus is undoubtedly committed to go on with it. The show does have what one frequent viewer calls an "idiot...
Legit Services. That and other similar quotes, Miller replied last week, were "isolated portions of my testimony." Mitch Miller, a many-sided man about music (besides being Columbia's A & R man, he conducts recording orchestras, arranges songs, produces TV commercials, presides at a Sunday chitchat show, and plays a first-rate oboe), argued that he got his fees for legitimate services, e.g., "editing" songs, fixing up lyrics...
...Even the chitchat between contestant and quizmaster on Twenty One and $64,000 Question is composed and drilled in advance. On What's My Line?, the panel does not know the guest's occupation it is supposed to guess, but its members are prompted before air time with questions calculated to produce the funny double entendre. When Trust your Wife used celebrities as contestants, they were guaranteed a fee regardless of whether they won. "Of course," says a Hollywood agent who gets requests from quiz shows for celebrities, "they don't ask anything that will make...
Kennedy's investigators were full of such tricks. Once they interviewed an Army corporal who passed on idle chitchat from a girl he met at a dance. She was maid for a woman employed by the Teamsters; under the woman's bed was a stack of their records. Anxious to inspect any Teamster file, Kennedy got the corporal to continue dating the maid (although the soldier complained that she was no bargain), arranged to have a staff member accompany them and the maid's girl friend on a double date. Capping the evening at the Teamster employee...
...plush Panama City cocktail lounge the chitchat hushed as a scrawny 21-year-old singer stepped up, caught the beat from a guitar and chanted mournfully...