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...Houston, a county judge checked the estate left by a man who hit the Texas jackpot in lumber and real estate: the late Jesse H. Jones, ex-Secretary of Commerce and former head of the Reconstruction Finance Corp. The jackpot: $9,665,302, including $3,389,701 in cash and $5,978,328 in stocks and bonds...
...Bert Parks, who gives away just about everything with ruthless abandon, is tentatively slated to return in October on NBC with Break the Bank and a jackpot of thousands...
...answer to Atlantic City's annual leg show will be The Most Beautiful Girl in the World (Oct. 22, 9 p.m.), with a jackpot (courtesy of Revlon) worth $250,000 for the most "talented, beautiful and intelligent" female on the face of the earth. The public will be the jury and contestants will be picked "without regard to age, color, occupation or country...
...local quiz program, another is being pressured to run for Congress. Stock Market Wizard Leonard Ross, II, who won $100,000 on The Big Surprise, is busy studying the price of coffee in the U.S. for a leading Brazilian businessman. Marine Corps Captain Dick McCutchen, who won the jackpot on both $64,000 shows, is putting the finishing touches on a cookbook. Shakespearean Scholar Redmond O'Hanlon, a Manhattan cop, will have a book of Shakespeare puns on the stand this spring. Alice Morgan, 78, who won $32,000, has completed The Investor's Road Map for Simon...
...still the most popular TV show in the U.S. (Its originator, Louis G. Cowan, was named vice president-Creative Services, CBS Inc.) In return for Question'?, vast audience during the year, its sponsor paid relatively little in prizes: $648,608 and ten Cadillacs. Four contestants won the jackpot of $64,000, eight won $32,000, six won $16,000, four...