Word: jackpots
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...banal, bathos, pathos and hypocrisy-that makes up what we call modern society." From Manhattan. Eleanor Holm Rose, estranged wife of Showman Billy Rose, flew off to Nevada, where by lingering for six weeks prior to April 10 she can divorce Billy, thus qualify for a settlement jackpot of $30,000-a-year alimony, plus a $200,000 bonus...
...Jackpot Prize. Even the youngest tennis fans could remember rangy (6 ft. 3 in., 180 Ibs.) Pancho Gonzales, the self-taught youngster who smashed his way to the U.S. championship at 20, helped the U.S. successfully defend the Davis Cup, then cashed in by turning pro. The fans also remember a later, paunchy Pancho, a sullen, undertrained pro who got trounced by Kramer, 96 matches to 27, in a 1950 tour. Since then, Gonzales has been teaching and playing in occasional pro tournaments, out of the big-money league. But last week a reconditioned Pancho, fit and full of walloping...
Because sports skeptics have questioned the will to win of the play-for-pay boys, Promoter Kramer decided to set up a jackpot-prize tournament at each of the 88 U.S. cities the pros will visit in their 25,000-mile cross-country junket. Where the take is fat enough, as it has been in New York and Philadelphia, the players will be shooting for $4,000 to the winner, will have to settle for $2,500, $1,500 or $1,000 in defeat. In other cities, they will play for comparable percentages of the gate...
...give you an idea of how to get into trouble but never tell you how to get out of it." "A masterpiece is something you don't understand." "I'm going to read a book some time. I saw a quiz show and the contestant lost the jackpot because he hadn't read a book." "Who wants to read, Miss Hall? It makes you feel petunia."* ¶Amid a cloud of complaints about inflation, the University of Wisconsin found a sliver of a silver lining: diplomas, which cost...
...that can be mass-produced, in sizes up to 21 inches, and will be sold for only 30% more than comparable black & white tubes. Tbs new tube will mean a drastic cut in the $750-to-$1000 price estimated for the first color sets, and possibly a big royalty jackpot...