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...would answer the $8,000, $16,000 and $32,000 questions. Then she serenely added: "And I am a little confident that I can answer the $64,000 question." The studio audience exploded into wild, sustained applause, certain that Grandma Kreitzer had decided to risk her winnings for the jackpot. "But," she continued as the applause died down, "I am balancing that confidence with a quotation from Ephesians, 'Let your moderation be known unto all men.' So I'm going to let my moderation be known and accept...
Consoling Cadillac. To carry home the staggering jackpot from The $64,000 Question (Tues. 10 p.m., CBS), the contestant must correctly answer eleven questions spread over four weeks. The first week he can win $8,000. Then he has a week to decide whether he will risk it all for $16,000. If he wins, he has another week to worry about whether he will go for $32,000. If he wins that, he has still another week of anguished self-examination. Should he quit with his $32,000? Or, with the help of any expert he chooses, should...
...week before the first show was televised, 14,000 people, hopefully eying the jackpot, had begged to be contestants. The lucky two chosen for the first show: Mrs. Thelma Bennett, a pretty housewife from Trenton, N.J. who is an expert on the movies, and Redmond O'Hanlon, a New York cop, who has five children and a wide knowledge of Shakespeare. Mrs. Bennett missed out on the $8,000 (the question: Name the Columbia movie which won almost all the 1934 Oscars, its stars and its director*), but was sent home with a nice consolation prize...
Said Priestley: "Whatever our contemporary age has, America has the most of. It is the jackpot country. If we are safely bound for an earthly paradise, the Americans will be there first. If we are all going to Hell, they will also be there first . . . Now, out of America, looking like a typical clean young American who drinks his orange juice and coffee, eats his cereal and waffles . . . is the bearer of the Word. Salvation has come, as it should, from America . . . Heaven is being promised again by a figure who might easily have a five-year contract with...
...trustees decided to build another monument to the distinguished persecutor of Salem. In a curious reversal of roles, however, the General Court seemingly upheld civil liberties by refusing funds for the enterprise. Lacking any other resource, the crafty trustees held a series of lotteries and, in 1794, hit the jackpot, winning their own ten thousand dollar prize on a redeemed ticket. After this victory of the righteous, there was enought money to build Holworthy as well as Stoughton. In 1805, new Stoughton appeared as a facsimile of Hollis, a mere shadow, robbed even of its distinctive coat of arms...