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Payoff. In Winchester, Ky., Deputy Sheriff R. L. Cruse swung his sledge hammer at a slot machine seized in a raid, hit the jackpot for a lone nickel...
...coffee dispenser is the latest gadget in the slot-machine industry, which has rapidly expanded to a jackpot gross of $500,000,000 a year. Automatic vendors now sell thousands of items, golf balls, perfume whiffs, laundry, toilet seat covers, insurance policies and hot dogs with mustard. In the offing are machines to sell 1) milk, butter, and ice cream in apartments, and 2) gasoline in automatic stations...
Last week, 15-year-old Jack Hoffman got a jackpot return for his $260 investment. After T. 0. Pride had first been named junior champion and then grand champion steer at Kansas City's rich, famed American Royal livestock show, Jack Hoffman sold him. The auction price: $42,600 (the Government will get $19,801.80 of this unless Jack is able to deduct a sizeable amount as "operating expenses" and needed improvements on his 80-acre farm...
...last week puttering George Stimpson, who never learned how to make his wealth of contacts pay off in fame, was knee-deep in good luck. His factmongering had hit the jackpot: the Book-of-the-Month Club had picked up his Book about a Thousand Things (Harper; $3.50), a random selection snatched from his disheveled files, and he stood to make $50,000 from it. (Last year his Book about the Bible, a similar sampling from his "B" files, surprised its publisher-and its author-by selling 30,000 copies.) Mildly bewildered, Bachelor George Stimpson muttered...
...core was a drum-tight control of the Negro vote. For as Memphians reflect: "The nigger doesn't vote, he is voted." Thus, at any time, day or night, year in, year out, whenever Ed Crump pulled the lever of his political slot machine, he hit the jackpot-a clear majority of 40,000 to 60,000 votes, enough not only to inundate Memphis but to control Tennessee as well...