Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-09

ordered in the course of which
Miss VIM was interviewed,
Asked If Miss VIM refused tO
deny that she received assist
ance. the witness said:
Miss VIM said, as reported
to me, that she had not re-
ceived questions and answers
in advance"
But Mr.. Lishman said she ac-
knowledged receiving categories
of questions.
Mr.. Lishman said that the
subcommittee has received tes-
timony from Mr.. Fisher, who
was heard in a closed session
yesterday, that che may have
told her to lie about this"
Mr.. Pinkham testified that
it was important for the shows
entertainment value to have at
tractive and appealing con-
teStants and indicated that
some of them may have been
given help on categories, but
not specifically the questions
and answers. He also said he
may have expressed the hope
at one time that certain con-
testants would continue on the
program, but without any in
tention of saying that it should
be arranged that they should
continue.
Called "Reprehensible"
The witness was asked by Mr..
LiShman If he regarded the rig
ging Of the quiz show as i'm
moral and fraudulent" and Mr..
Pinkham replied:
81 consider it completely rep
rehenSible, as it is now reported
to me-"
Three contestants who ap-
peared on either Dotto or Tic
Tao Dough, and an artist en-
ployed by the Dotto show yes
terday supported earlier evil
dence that the quiz programs
were anything but a contest Of
brains.
One of the witnesses was
vivacious, 19-year- old Kristen
Fake, a student at the Oberlin
{Ohio) Conservatory of Music.
who testified she received
coaching enabling her to win
$500 in two appearances on
Tic Tao Dough three years
ago.
She said Mr.. Felsher asked
her not to tell her mother or
anyone that she received as
sistance. During the New
York grand jury investigation
of the quiz programs Miss
Fake testified Mr.. Felsher
called and asked her ito tell
the truth that you did not re-
ceive any assistance"
This testimony brought an
indignant comment from Rep
resentative Moss, Democrat Of
California. Noting that Kristen
was only 16 when she appeared
on the program, Mr.. Moss said
the testimony indicated they
were perfectly willing to cor
rQpt anything they could to sell
a product that may have very
little value"
II think this whole disillu-
sioning story" Mr.. Moss added,
should trouble the conscience
of the industry a great deal. I
think this is a perfect demon
Stration Of their lack of moral
ity, their lack of ethics"
Mother Is Resentful
Kirsten's mother, Mrs. Irving
Kitzing of New York, who APP
peared with her, expressed her
own resentment in forceful
words:
ANY parent would be out
ragged, I think, to feel that her
child had been led to be delib-
erately deceptive"
Asked if she thought her
daughter was "bullied" into not
telling her, Mrs. Kitzing an
swered:
IT certainly did If adults
wish to behave unethically,
that's their business. But when
a youngster is asked to commit
perjury-or at least is led along
that direction-I think it's dis
graceful"
Mrs. Hitting said she knew
nothing of her daughters hav-
ing been given answers until
after the quiz scandals got into
the papers. Then, she said, she
asked about it and her daugh-
ter finally admitted rather
shamefacedly that she had been
given answers"
| Kristen testified she became