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Dewey had a chicken sandwich and a glass of milk and sat down again before the television set. Across the land, listening at radios, people sat with their score cards, waiting to play the game of Presidential Bingo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: How He Did It | 7/5/1948 | See Source »

Payoff. In Battle Creek, Mich., 74-year-old James M. Pier won a divorce when he complained that his wife wore him out dragging him to bingo games...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, May 24, 1948 | 5/24/1948 | See Source »

...This week the local baseball season got into full swing; Tempelhof airbase invited all American girls to the "Stateside Stomp" in the Skyrider Ballroom; everything from keel boats to canoes and kayaks is skimming the Wannsee's smooth, sunny waters. This is little America, APO 742-A, including bingo, jukeboxes, dog shows, fashion shows and horse shows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: On a Sandy Plain | 5/17/1948 | See Source »

...Halifax, the campaign was led by hardworking, hard-talking Mrs. Mary Beatrice Murphy, who kept order at consumers' meetings with a rolling pin. There were 1,500 petitions around the town, growing longer as signatures were gathered at grocery stores and bingo halls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: THE DOMINION: Price War | 2/9/1948 | See Source »

...Patty Conklin's "Mile of Merriment" Midway, they saw Terrell Jacobs' circus and Joe LaFlamme and his trained moose, won gewgaws at ring games, rode the ferris wheel, played bingo. When they were too frazzled and footsore to walk another step, they plunked down $3 for a seat at the Olsen & Johnson show, or ate at one of the 16 restaurants and 75 "grab joints" on the exhibition grounds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: ONTARIO: The Ex | 9/1/1947 | See Source »

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