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Other giveaway programs keep hoping that they will get to the top, too, if they just scatter enough loot along the way. NBC's The Big Surprise is still offering the biggest jackpot of all ($100,000) and still failing to get a jackpot-sized audience. CBS's Name That Tune has upped its ante to $25,000 without sensationally upping its rating, and ABC's Bert Parks loudly claims some sort of primacy for having dispersed "more than $5,000,000" over the years on Stop the Music and Break the Bank ("the granddaddy...
Shares for All. Like most of today's great corporations, G.M. achieved it because giants of old had laid the foundations with big, visionary ideas. The man who founded General Motors was William C. Durant, an ex-carriage, ex-bicycle, ex-wagon maker who first hit the jackpot by backing an auto designer named David Buick. In 1905, Billy Durant capitalized Buick for a staggering $10 million, three years later tried to corner the auto manufacturing business. (Henry Ford agreed to sell for $8,000,000, but at the last minute Durant's bankers backed away from...
...time it appeared that the nation's televiewers were going to have only two big-money giveaways-CBS's No. i show, The $64,000 Question, and NBC's $100,000-jackpot Big Surprise, whose biggest surprise so far has been its consistently low rating...
...toils of nature and landed ogres, dying in blizzards, falling with boot-broken backs. First Icelander ever to win a Nobel Prize, he hoped that Iceland's tax collectors "will leave me 10% for brandy." Early next month, Leftist Laxness will get his gold medal, diploma and $36.720 jackpot from Sweden's King Gustaf VI Adolf...
...Question, the veteran Truth and Consequences last week moved to a new night and a new time (Fri. 8 p.m., NBC). M.C. Jack Bailey also decided that the only way to fight money is with money and this week will plunk down a $100,000 jackpot to outbid Question's $64,000. The gimmick: College Student Pat Morris, 19, after being hypnotized and told that she cannot leave her chair, will get the opportunity of picking up $100,000 from a table across the stage. If she can break the hypnosis and seize the money, it is all hers...