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...street from the elegant Hotel de Paris. In France, the postwar development of le tierce, a combination racing bet and lottery, which attracts 3,000,000 Frenchmen every Sunday, has made horse-track betting the country's fifth-largest industry. And in Britain, bookies, football pools and bingo, together with the legalization in 1960 of private table
Died. Albert Cardinal Meyer, 62, spiritual leader of Chicago's 2,300,000 Roman Catholics, largest U.S. archdiocese, a vigorous leader who upon donning the red hat in 1959 confided, "I am happy for myself, but I am even happier for the people of Chicago," banned parish bingo, renovated dilapidated schools (15 days after he took over as archbishop in 1958, 87 children and three nuns died in a school blaze), racially integrated the parochial school system, declaring, "The glory of Christ demands it"; of cancer; in Chicago...
Detroit's recent bingo has been spearheaded by Normie Ullman, whose 31 goals and 74 points are both second is the league, and who should be the league's most valuable player, assuming the Wings hang on to first place...
...that teen-agers spend $570 million on toiletries, $1.5 billion a year on entertainment. $3.6 billion on women's clothes-$12 billion all told. They account for 25% of the record industry, 35% of the movie audience. "Action comedies with music," like Beach Party, Bikini Beach, Beach Blanket Bingo and the forthcoming How to Stuff a Wild Bikini, get made for only one sweet reason, explains Samuel Z. Arkoff of American International Pictures. "They're a kind of never-never land in modern undress." Teen-agers are not necessarily flattered by so much commercial attention. This month...
...result, 58% of Rank's current profit comes from nonfilm activities. Capitalizing on Britain's rising incomes, Rank's 19 divisions run 18 "Top Rank" bowling alleys, 38 bingo clubs, 29 ballrooms, 15 coin-op laundries, 25 dance studios. The firm has also opened three motor inns and ten highway service centers, runs 184 TV and appliance retail stores and six factories that make radio and TV sets, appliances and electronic equipment...