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...Jackpot, Scandal. Vanity overcoming discretion, Sherman phoned the Newark Evening News to boast of his own treasure trove, and the story of his bonanza burst into headlines across the country. In Washington, Postmaster General J. Edward Day reacted hastily. He directed the printing of 400,000 more Hammarskjolds with the identical imperfect backgrounds -thus knocking down the worth of the originals to little more than the 4? they had cost at the post office. Moaned Sherman's wife: "Isn't that lousy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hobbies: Oh Dag, Poor Dag | 11/23/1962 | See Source »

...Author Price's book is a brief, appealing, generally unpretentious tale of a young girl who does not quite know how to land her laggard suitor, and who, as she learns, finds error a trial. It is a good first novel, masterfully put together, and it deserves its jackpot luck, wrong reasons notwithstanding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: New Mockingbird | 3/23/1962 | See Source »

...Putting most of its money into vending machines, the Universal Match Corp. of St. Louis hit the jackpot when the machine market soared, only to see profits plunge 63% to $2.3 million last year under the pressure of heavy competition and development costs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Personal File: Mar. 16, 1962 | 3/16/1962 | See Source »

Once a year, Hollywood tries to kill off TV by driving all gogglebox viewers past he point where boredom becomes catatonia. This year's Oscar awards show succeeded dismally. It was the longest ever televised, and its entertainment value fell somewhere between Jackpot Bowling and the little white blip that appears in the center of the screen after the set has been turned off. Part of the torpor is by now hereditary. What was new was the annual Oscar awards' spectacular morbidity. The night dragged on as a kind of animated obituary, part Beverly Hills and part Forest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hollywood: Cinema's Wake | 4/28/1961 | See Source »

...influence still pervaded the industry, and his Open End consistently demonstrated that conversation, if intelligent, can be entertaining. Jackie Gleason was miserably miscast as the M.C. of an ill-fated (one performance) panel show, You're in the Picture, and Milton Berle was relegated to narrating Jackpot Bowling. The networks-which billed some 400 shows as "specials" in 1959-60-had considerably fewer than that this year, and with a few notable exceptions-such as NBC's Coming of Christ on Project 20 and the low-key Another Evening with Fred Astaire-most of them were both artistic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The Season | 3/31/1961 | See Source »

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