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...hunter hit the jackpot 30 minutes after he got out of his car. In that time he killed a 600-lb. bear, a 700-lb. elk, a 225-lb. deer. Others were not so lucky. By the fifth day of the 17-day season, Colorado's casualty list read: six dead, four from gunfire, two from heart attacks. That was only the beginning; in most deer-hunting states the season has not yet opened. If 1950 follows the pattern of 1949, some 500 big-and small-game hunters throughout the U.S. will have been shot to death by Christmas...
...Break the Bank (Wed. 10 p.m., NBC-TV), answered a string of questions about aviation, finally got to the big one: What was the name of the B50 that last year made the first nonstop flight around the world? For answering Lucky Lady, he won the biggest cash jackpot in TV history-$8,870. As Mrs. Bowen packed last week to follow her husband overseas, Captain Bowen observed: "This seems like God has answered my prayer...
Floodtide (Dial; $3) is Frank Yerby's mixture as before, a crude, shrewd combination of sex, violence, sadism, costuming and cliche. Yerby, a 33-year-old Negro writer who hit a $250,000 jackpot with his first novel, The Foxes of Harrow, knows just what his customers like and gives it to them in heroic doses: Hero Ross Pary isn't quality in his home town of Natchez, Miss., but he returns there in 1850 with an Oxford education, a face "as clean-cut as a medallion," eyes "somber and brooding" and "plaid trousers, clinging to his well...
Then they went after money. They called on foundations and corporations, advertised in newspapers, even tried, without success, to get a crack at the $5,000 jackpot question on a Break the Bank quiz show. Gifts of $1 to $125 began to dribble in. By June of 1948, Eames and Haynes were set. Of the 22 nations invited to send students, all but Russia, Bulgaria, Rumania and Hungary came through-in most cases adding the passage money...
...quit with engine trouble, others gave up out of sheer exhaustion. Ordinary citizens would want a stout reward for taking the punishment the river men take, but the marathon's prizes-an automobile, a television set and a cup-would be penny ante on a third-rate radio jackpot. The pilots of the cockleshells that whined their way down the Hudson were doing...