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Oldtime Heavyweight Champion James J. Jeffries slapped a $150,000 slander suit against two small-time promoters for advertising a bingo-type game called "Conflict" played in "Jeffries' Barn" on his Burbank, Calif, ranch. Such goings-on, 75-year-old Jim Jeffries charged, would hurt his "good name...
CROSS SECTION, Kan., Nov. 24--Gonfalon B. Mud, the CRIMSON's newly-hired football prognosticator, could nowhere be located here yesterday for his Yale game prediction. According to townsfolk, the Kansau pollster embarked on a week-long drinking bingo immediately following last week's successful prediction of a Harvard victory over Brown...
...Very curious," said the Englishman. "First the man calls out a number, and you put a bean on it. Then he calls another number and you put another bean on it . . . until at last a lady screams, 'Bingo!' and everybody else cries,'Aw, hell!' Very curious place, America...
Last week the baffled Englishman would have found America even more curious. The latest radio craze was Tune-O, an air version of bingo with a touch of Stop the Music thrown in. Players must first guess the name of the tune being played from a numbered list supplied by the sponsors, then match the tune's number with an accompanying bingo-type card. The first to plot five numbers in a row calls the radio station, screams "Tune-O!" and waits for the prizes to roll in: $1,000 in cash, jewelry, a new automobile...
...Frank Hague the political empire he lost when Democratic maverick John V. Kenny dethroned him in Jersey City last May. Wene, besides Hague's dubious help, also had the ill-advised support of Roman Catholic Auxiliary Bishop James A. McNulty, who opposed Driscoll's position against bingo (TIME, Oct. 24), and ordered nuns to distribute circulars to parochial schoolchildren urging the election of the Hague candidate. The potent C.I.O. stayed "neutral," and, though it didn't want to admit to admiring a Republican, covertly worked for Driscoll...