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Last week the ritual was being repeated in ballrooms and cinemas all over Britain with a fervor that bordered on monomania. The British were out-bingoing the U.S. on a scale beyond the wildest dreams of the most game-happy Boston parish. The Mecca ballroom chain stages afternoon bingo games in 40 dance halls across Britain. But to bingo-mad mums, matinees at the Mecca were not enough, and the operators now promise bingo at least one night a week. Last week women began queueing outside one London hall at 7 in the morning to be sure of getting...
...Bingo was legalized six months ago when the gambling provisions of the new Betting and Gaming Act made playing for money legal if all money staked was returned in prizes. Since then, bingo clubs have sprung up by the hundreds, as warm with women ready to scream "Bingo!" when the magic square is checked. Profits to the house come only from admissions and sale of refreshments; by now, bingo is a $150 million-a-year business...
...Bingo is particularly suited to the working-class British housewife. Unlike her U.S. counterpart, she is apt to have no hobbies, recreations or interests of her own; she does little social, welfare or community work, and frequently does not have a single book in the house. Her husband is notoriously uninterested in togetherness, prefers to spend his evenings in the local pub. Said one bingo organizer: "A social revolution has taken place. There is now something just as respectable for women to go to as a pub or club has long been for their husbands. No one would call...
...Bingo, the churchly gold mine, grossed $21,703,569 in New York State during the half year ending in March, the State Lottery Control Commission reported last week. According to the commission, 5,998,858 people played 25,843 games, run by 1,236 organizations. The biggest moneymaker was the Roman Catholic Church of the Most Precious Blood, in Queens, Long Island, with a six-month profit...
...does.* Fortnight ago, the hawk-nosed lefthander pitched a no-hitter, his second since last September, against the San Francisco Giants-a team that has been held hitless only three times since 1900. "Ridiculous," said Spahn afterward. "I go 15 years before I get a no-hitter. Then, bingo, I've got two." Last week Spahn pitched against the tough Los Angeles Dodgers, a team he had not beaten since 1958. He allowed just two hits-a bloop double in the third inning, a two-out single in the ninth-got three hits himself, scored two runs, struck...