Word: jackpots
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bert Parks, who gives away just about everything with ruthless abandon, is tentatively slated to return in October on NBC with Break the Bank and a jackpot of thousands...
...still the most popular TV show in the U.S. (Its originator, Louis G. Cowan, was named vice president-Creative Services, CBS Inc.) In return for Question'?, vast audience during the year, its sponsor paid relatively little in prizes: $648,608 and ten Cadillacs. Four contestants won the jackpot of $64,000, eight won $32,000, six won $16,000, four...
...week from other stations that he has licensed to use it. A similar Storz giveaway, in which the station selects prizewinning telephone numbers, had to be dropped by KOHW this month when the telephone company complained that hundreds of subscribers were being bombarded with idle calls from jackpot hunters...
...next week, under the show's rules, he was rescued and given another try. Last week, with no option, under the rules, but to try again, Lenny correctly answered an intricate, five-part question that required 13 answers, and became the fourth winner of the biggest quiz-show jackpot of them...
...active duty at Brooklyn's Navy Yard, broke through for the top award of $100,000 by naming six groups of women from Greek and Roman fables. And William and James Egan, a pair of outsized* lawyers from Hartford, Conn., were poised only a step away from the jackpot of CBS's The $64,000 Question...