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...Kewpie dolls, razor blades and punchboards. It went bankrupt, left its creditors holding the sack, was reborn as the Dainties Products Co.-and boomed. He put his money into real estate, built apartments and five-story walkups in Upper Manhattan and The Bronx, and with his investments hit another jackpot...
...Benjamin Cohen of The Bronx, Mrs. Cohen, a 42-year-old grandmother, lifted the receiver. Carefully she answered the three questions put to her by the man at the other end of the line. At that point, Mrs. Cohen walked into pandemonium. She had hit the $28,000 jackpot on CBS's Sing It Again giveaway program...
With "Norzon," an artificial suede fabric, the Behr-Manning Co. of Troy, N.Y. hit the jackpot. Because Norzon wears as well as real suede and can be washed with soap & water, shoemakers were quick to use it. In 2^ years they have put Norzon into an estimated 35 million pairs of shoes. But like many another company with something good to sell, Behr-Manning has been plagued by cheap imitations and complaints when the imitations did not hold...
...Noone, a Washington postal clerk, set about wooing Lady Luck in a scientific sort of way. Forming a syndicate with seven relatives and friends (each was assessed $5), Noone made repeated trips to Manhattan in the hope of being chosen a contestant on the CBS giveaway program Hit the Jackpot. Last April the lightning struck; Noone won prizes grandiloquently announced as worth...
...Jackpot. In Melbourne, Australia, Maurice Crowe disclosed that his wife's will had left him a lottery ticket a month for life on condition that any winnings be used to pay her real-estate debts...