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Dates: during 1957-1957
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Last week FCC Chairman John C. Doerfer assured Utah's outraged Republican Representative William A. Dawson that the FCC was investigating whether such sly brainwashing was already being practiced on unsuspecting viewers. All three networks hastily denied that they had touched the Orwellian gimmick developed by Manhattan's Subliminal Projection Co., Inc. and Experimental Films Inc. of New Orleans, but some network executives seemed curious and interested. If the FCC discovers phantom plugs on the air waves, explained Doerfer, it must still make up its mind whether it has any control over them. But Representative Dawson is champing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The Phantom Plug | 11/18/1957 | See Source »

...Frederick W. Ford, 47, was nominated to a seven-year term on the Federal Communications Commission, replacing retiring Chairman George C. McConnaughey, 61, as a member of the commission, but not in the top job. The senior post goes to John C. Doerfer, 52, a tough, middle-roading lawyer who has been an FCCommissioner since 1953. A West Virginian born and educated (West Virginia University, '31), Lawyer Ford first went to work for FCC in 1947 after a stint at the Office of Price Administration, within six years worked up from hearing commissioner to chief of the hearing division...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERSONNEL: Changes of the Week, Jul. 15, 1957 | 7/15/1957 | See Source »

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