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...second question, he got 18 out of 20. "To my mind," the grader commented, "excellent!! If you had just dealt with another point or two you would have hit the jackpot...
...Petrillo ban; when M-G-M finally released it last December, Buddy spent $1,000 carting the record around to half a dozen cities, badgering disc jockeys, record shops and department stores. Finally, when Crooner Perry Como sang it on his Supper Club program Buddy Kaye hit the jackpot...
...only man to make a fast buck. Another Detroiter got a bushel basket full of money in one evening, and gave away five-dollar bills as mementoes of the stirring occasion. People in Houston, Dallas, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and dozens of other U.S. cities and towns hit the jackpot too and found themselves in a delirious state of sudden solvency...
Died. Firth Shephard, 57, top British theatrical producer who hit the jackpot showing London such U.S. hits as Arsenic and Old Lace and The Man Who Came to Dinner; of a heart ailment; in London...
...director of the radio show Stop the Music asked the Boeing Airplane Co. to donate a four-engined Stratocruiser as a prize in the "mystery melody jackpot," saying the publicity would be worth $75,000 to Boeing. The company refused, gently pointing out that the double-deck, 80-passenger aircraft needed a crew of five, sold for approximately...