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Differences were happily settled as the two players split the $4,000 first-and second-place jackpot. The matter of which man is the better player will be settled when the two get together next month in an 18-game tour in New York, Mexico City and San Salvador...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Poles Apart | 3/31/1952 | See Source »

...they tell a sympathetic lady judge (Madge Kennedy) about the troubles that led them to the divorce court after seven years of marriage and two children. Among their problems: 1) Aldo was once late to pick up Judy for a party, 2) Judy lost a $2,600 radio jackpot because Aldo tipped her on the wrong tune title when she knew the right one all along, and 3) Aldo was jealous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Mar. 17, 1952 | 3/17/1952 | See Source »

With the Government's blessing, New York's tabloid News pulled the handle this week on what it called "the biggest jackpot in history." The News began printing the names of thousands of New Yorkers to whom the Government owes nearly $5,000,000 in old income-tax refunds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Addresses Unknown | 1/21/1952 | See Source »

When Collier's devoted a whole issue to defeating Russia, in its own preview of World War III ten weeks ago, it thought it had hit a journalistic jackpot. Collier's (circ. 3,150,000) sold an extra 500,000 copies (TIME, Oct. 29) and planned to cash in further by fighting "The War We Do Not Want" all over again in book form. By last week, the jackpot began to turn out wooden nickels. Simon & Schuster, which had contracted to publish the book, dropped the project. Reason: three of Collier's star "correspondents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The War Nobody Liked | 1/14/1952 | See Source »

Just as if nothing had happened to spoil the fun (see above), football bowl committees last week were busily buttonholing the teams which will still be playing football in January. Arkansas State College hit some sort of a jackpot in the annual grab-bag by accepting two bowl games: the Refrigerator, this week in Evansville, Ind., and the Tangerine, in Orlando, Fla. on New Year's Day. Other bowl lineups...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Bowlers | 12/3/1951 | See Source »

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