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...Jackpots. Macy's department store chain hit a record jackpot. It announced sales of $309,213,000 for the year ending May 1, up 9.7% over the previous year. The net was $7,981,000 v. $6,770,000 the year before. May Department Stores Co. reported an even bigger take: $358,013,576 for the year ending January 31 (v. $330,331,868 the year before). But the net of $17,231,481 was down around...
...profit from a hard look at Peony. Here, in a neat economy package, are crammed all the formula-tested and cliche-ripe ingredients for which book-club members seem to have an insatiable appetite. (Peony, a Literary Guild selection, is Miss Buck's tenth book to hit the jackpot with a major book club...
Three students hit the jackpot in the University's store of prizes, netting over $1000 for winning essays in the annual Bowdoin contest, it was announced yesterday...
Unplugged. Connors is an ex-jailbird. An ex-hot check passer and panhandler, he now & then augmented his income by filching nickels from telephone coinboxes. He would stuff toilet paper into the return slot, wait a couple of hours, then unplug the jackpot. He has spent over a year in jail...
...Words or Less . . ." Typical "cancer month" commercial, on Manhattan's WQXR: "Would you like to win a $9,300 house ... a $2,000 Alaska seal fur coat, a ... piano, an ... automobile? . . . Listen to the details of the New York City Cancer Committee's amazing radio jackpot contest! All you have to do is to complete in 25 words or less the statement 'I give to conquer cancer because . . .' and send it in with a contribution of at least 25?." Chief designer of the new technique in cancer fund-raising is Campaign Chairman Elmer H. Bobst...