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...March 27, 1974, Channel 12 sports reporter Jimmy Jones broke into the Fred's follies to inform his juvenile audience that the Portland Trail Blazers had won the coin toss with the Philadelphia '76ers and would receive the first pick in the 1974 National Basketball Association draft...

Author: By Richard L. Meyer, | Title: Bill Walton: Always A Winner | 12/6/1985 | See Source »

...Harrowby. But the show and its catalog broadcast together on a narrow band of social meaning, emitting what is basically a fantasy about relationships between taste, property and justice. The show has done an extraordinary job of conveying the opulence of its subject. But the other side of the coin is worth remembering, even as one gapes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Brideshead Redecorated | 11/11/1985 | See Source »

...Patents, Copyrights, and Licensing booth advertised "invention advice" for 5 cents and featured a collapsible geodesic dome made of coffee-stirrers and dental floss a wind-up jumping mouse that went up in the space shuttle, and a coin bank whose skeletal, green hand emerges from inside to snatch pennies...

Author: By Alice K. Ma and Gary L. Susman, S | Title: Harvard Meets Harvard | 11/8/1985 | See Source »

Kirkland won the coin toss, elected to receive, and both squads lined up to get the game going. The officials were about to call for the Flame kick off, when the Adams sideline brought it to their attention that there was no ball on the field...

Author: By Ted Ullyot, | Title: Kirkland Tops Adams, Earns First Victory, 8-0 | 11/8/1985 | See Source »

...next Pac-man, but the hottest thing going right now in certain rural areas of 21 states is a coin-operated vending machine that dispenses live bait to fishermen, and the force behind it is a supersalesman from Des Moines who found God in a federal penitentiary. The machine is called Vend-A-Bait, and, as one Texas distributor put it, "It's one great moneymakin' sucker." So, for that matter, is Vend-A-Bait Mogul Glenn McClintic; he drives a car longer than most people's memory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Des Moines: Worms for Sale | 10/21/1985 | See Source »

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