Word: snodgrass
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Else." If Herb Stempel was hardly convincing when he first blabbed, the public began to listen when his charges were seconded by baby-faced Artist James Snodgrass, 36. Last week Snodgrass dramatically opened a registered letter, postmarked May 10, 1957, which not only gave the questions for the May 13 show (Sample: "What are the names of the Seven Dwarfs?") but also the instructions for painfully spitting out the answers ("Sleepy, Sneezy, Dopey, Happy, pause-the grouchy one-Grumpy-Doc -pause-the bashful one!"). Snodgrass enjoyed winning so much that when he was instructed to fall before the mighty mind...
...When I started reading about the expose of quiz shows," said former Twenty One Contestant James Snodgrass. "I was hoping I'd be the forgotten man." But the New York County District Attorney's office remembered Artist Snodgrass for his moment of fame in Twenty One's low-income brackets (he won $4,000). His testimony, as reported by the New York Post, added up to one word: fraud. Like Contestant Herb Stempel before him (TIME, Sept. 8), said Snodgrass, he was given answers in advance, was eventually told when to lose gracefully to Research Consultant Hank...
...Once, Snodgrass doublecrossed his collaborators by answering a question correctly when he was scheduled to goof. And at least three times before he eventually lost as requested, he wrote himself registered letters spelling out his questions and answers in advance of his appearance on the show. Turned over to the district attorney last week, those letters, says Snodgrass, will prove to a grand jury that he and someone on Twenty One were involved in a fix. "Surprised" by Artist Snodgrass' testimony. NBC officials faced up to the fact that the quiz scandal has not died and promised "to launch...
...probable starting lineup today will include Charlie Devens and Frank Bachinsky at the ends, Harry Fitzgibbons and Bob Hallowell at the tackles, Doug Brown and Sam Snodgrass at the guards, and Dalton Avery at center. Tony Marlow, Tom Lawson, Chub Newell, and Rick Crocker will comprise the backfield...
...Snodgrass, George, and Brown are expected to start in the center of the line, with Bachinsky and Hathaway at the ends...