Word: jackpots
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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SPILL THE JACKPOT - A. A. Fair -Morrow ($2). How to milk a slot machine is one of the valuable tips herein offered by Bertha Cool and Donald Lam, hired not to find a vanished bride. But they find her after the No. 1 Milker's sidekick is murdered...
...impression of dragging, so that it never during its two long acts settles down to the evening of pure fun the audience expects. However, the material is there now, and by the time it hits New York, the show should be well enough ironed out to hit the jackpot...
...Socialite Jock Whitney, who not only likes to hit the jackpot but invest his money to do good...
...Hanover Indians will be powerful if their Sophomore stars Krol and Wolfe hit the jackpot, but they may lack real offensive punch...
Spreyer and Lee are endowed with much natural ability, and both may hit the jackpot in this, their Junior year. They lack the speed of a Torbie Macdonald, however, and neither is much of a forward passer. That is where Don MacNicol, last year's yearling leader, steps into the picture. McNicol is a genuine triple-threat artist, with the accent on passing. That talen will make Dick Harlow give him much consideration oven though his progress is slow in other departments of the game. He is undoubtedly the best backfield contribution of the class of 1943, but Calob Loring...