Word: default
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...default of entertainment, television last week was giving away more money than ever before. CBS unveiled a new giveaway, Do You Trust Your Wife?, a money-tosser that has nearly as many M.C.s (Edgar Bergen and three of his dummies) as it does contestants (three married couples). The show is filmed-and filmed badly. Large blisters of light kept glaring on and off during the 30 minutes, seemingly timed to the excessive applause of the well-trained studio audience. The winning contestants: Robert and Roberta Hickey, parents of eleven children, who won $100 a week for a year when Roberta...
...class, Striker, by decision (4-1); in the 147 lb. class, Noble, by decision (9-4); in the 157 lb. class, Eastling, by a pin (time 1:10); in the 167 lb. class, Sullivan, by a pin (time 5:20); in the 177 lb. class, Foster, by default; and in the heavyweight division, Leary, by a pin (time...
Wigglesworth East and Thayer South remained tied for first place in National League touch football Tuesday, as Thayer South beat Straus South 19 to 7, and Wigglesworth East won by default over Stoughton. Hollis took another default win over Weld North...
...hectic week began when a judge awarded a whopping $40,361.66 to a Beverly Hills couple named Kaiser to undo the swath cut through their $200,000 house in a mere 28 months by former Tenant Lanza and brood. (Lanza's lawyer promptly cried foul, claimed that the default decision was illegal because his client was never served with papers in the case.) Among the highlights listed in the Kaisers' complaint: 1) all the draperies had to be replaced because Lanza's dogs preferred them to trees or fire hydrants, 2) the roof leaked badly after...
...Haymes did not re-enter the U.S. illegally after a visit to Honolulu in 1953, when he was wooing his present, fourth wife, Cinemactress Rita Hayworth. The harassed Haymeses, however, had only a brief surcease of sorrow. Two days later, bad news broke: Columbia studios had sued Rita for default on a $17,844 note she signed last December. Day after that, the Justice Department, still determined to give Haymes a one-way ticket south, indicated that it will appeal the federal court decision...