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...Near East crisis gave TV a chance to hold its head up for a change and act like a responsible medium of expression. If Nasser has nothing else to his credit, he can, on the day of judgment, say he got three giveaways [For Love or Money, Play Your Hunch, Dotto...
...Gaines, who started the whole industry in the early 30s when he hit on the idea of selling reprinted newspaper comic sections for a dime. Using the standard comic formula-32 pages, newsprint, four colors, a 10? price tag-Mad was just holding its own when Gaines played a hunch in 1955, switched to semi-slick paper and higher quality black-and-white drawings, upped the price to 25? and promptly had a boffo success. The magazine now clears $43,000 an issue...
After winning the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness, Tim Tarn figured to take the Belmont in a walk. Last hope of the hunch players was a barrel-chested Irish colt named Cavan, who had come from nowhere to win the Peter Pan Handicap just the week before. And suddenly it was Cavan who was getting a call. Aboard the favorite, worried Jockey Ismael Valenzuela went to the whip. Tim Tarn wobbled badly. His fine stride suddenly looked awkward; he was in trouble. Snug on the rail, Cavan was reaching out and running away. The liver-colored Irish import breezed under...
...Guess & by Hunch. The pruning seemed generally aimed at curbing the suggestion of civil war, but, with no firm policy guide, the censors cut stories by guess and by hunch. They seized a day's run of the Paris edition of the New York Herald Tribune that carried a story on the French fleet leaving Malta. But they let French papers and the national radio network carry the same story the same day. Newsmen also had their troubles with the jittery government. For calling President Coty "the great nothing of the Fourth Republic," the London Daily Herald...
...finish of the 1¾-mile course half a length ahead of Cornell, 1¼ lengths in front of Princeton, was clocked in a lake record 8:35.8. ¶ In the eighth race at Massachusetts' Raynham dog track, the greyhounds were faster than the $2 hunch players hoped for. They caught the mechanical bunny, and quit racing to chew on the fur-covered teaser. Track officials took an even worse licking: they had to return $18,345 in bets...