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Lucky Partners (NBC) caters to the home bingo crowd. Under the word L-U-C-K-Y appears a series of numbers. Questions come marked L3, C5, Y7, etc., each worth that number of points. Sample stumper ("verified by the editorial research board of the Encyclopaedia Britannica"): "What famous World War II general said 'I shall return'?" Home audience participation is invited by two of TV's living dolls, always present but rarely busy (they also serve who only stand and undulate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The Parlor Pinkertons | 8/11/1958 | See Source »

...15th Philco. I don't need anybody either. But you are a good deed in a naughty world." Snorted Oscar himself: "My leaving Channel 13 is a catastrophe for the community. The channel will now revert to its cloacal status with such intellectual pursuits as hypnotism and bingo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Oscar Writhes Again | 7/7/1958 | See Source »

...descended from the last High King of Ireland" and expressed his royalty in the form of detestation of "gainful occupation." As Father soon disappeared, Mother was forced to live by her wits-which she did in a London cellar with an "uncle," known as "Jacko" or "Poor Old Bobby Bingo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Cad's Cad | 6/16/1958 | See Source »

...school athletic field is turned into a fair-ground with ferris wheel and Bingo for a week at the end of each summer when the active Alumni Association presents its annual Carnival. As soon as textbooks are distributed for the year, it is time for football Homecoming Week. Beginning with a parade and bonfire, the celebration winds up with the crowning of the homecoming queen and her court--invariably members of Sub-Deb or Jinx...

Author: By Martha E. Miller, | Title: Typical Midwestern High School Seeks Values Outside Classrooms | 6/12/1958 | See Source »

...lure an audience back to the faltering $64,000 Question (Tues. 10 p.m. E.S.T.), CBS set up a stunt based on a bingo mutation that can earn a home viewer as much as the classic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Ask Me Another | 4/14/1958 | See Source »

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