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Millionaire builds its tension partly by waiting until the day before the taping to inform contestants that they've been chosen. Last Friday night, Dale Masel, 28, an industrial-engineering professor at Ohio University, got the call. Although he watches the show regularly, he hesitates when asked if he likes it. "Umm. I'm a much bigger fan today," he says. As is John Carpenter, the man who won Millionaire's million dollars and has been doing publicity spots ever since, hoping to make a career out of his moment. "The money itself hasn't changed my life," he says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Going Millionaire Crazy! | 1/17/2000 | See Source »

...three year sin' that some o' oor American papers said that Herbert got his feegurs sae badly jumle't that he made statements showin' that the British, through Stevenson's rubber control, were forcin' us American motorists (I rin a Packard masel') tae pay in increased price for oor tires some three or fowre hunner million dollars a year mair than the price o' a' the rubber that was imported into the kintra...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Secret | 10/15/1928 | See Source »

...Lord Stevenson was a bad yin. I see ye dinna owerleuk him in yer last issue. He was anither o' thae Ayrshire Yokels. He gaed tae the same schule as I did masel'. I wunner what Jix was thinkin' o' himsel', addressin' the like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Secret | 10/15/1928 | See Source »

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