Word: misses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Manhattan bar & grill, 20-year-old Josephine Ostoloco, who had been playing Civilization ("Bongo, Bongo, Bongo") for an hour on the jukebox, started to insert another quarter. Filipe Torres, 30, protested. Miss Ostoloco persisted. Torres shot her twice and fled...
...newspapermen got on TIME'S staff, the office boys used to whistle at their work; now they obey the 50-year-old newspaper taboo against whistling. On some evenings, still, an old Timer will call Matthews on the office phone and say: "Don't miss the sunset...
...last week the Walking Man had broken some sort of record by passing up Miss Hush and strolling into his tenth week on Ralph Edwards' Truth or Consequences (Sat. 8:30 p.m., NBC). The prizes had piled up to $22,500 worth of Cadillacs, home-freeze units, trips to Sun Valley. The American Heart Association was wallowing in contributions from would-be contestants (last week they topped a million dollars), and the mail was terrific: 114,000 letters in one day last week...
Edwards, who thought up all the clues himself, couldn't understand why everybody missed "such easy hints." He explained: "The original contest was started as a satire, to end all giveaways." But the skyrocketing Hooperatings of Mrs. Hush (Clara Bow) and Miss Hush (Martha Graham) changed his thinking. After the Walking Man, he might try a "Walking Lady, a Baby Hush, or a Burping Baby." The only trouble is "those other quiz shows that glommed on to the idea." If the rivals don't stop, they may spoil the whole thing...
...vigilant, public pits do not advertise, but they operate at Wheeling, W.Va., Saratoga Springs, N.Y., Wilmington, Del., Wilkes-Barre, Pa. and Frederick, Md. (where a cockfight was hijacked and its patrons reportedly robbed of almost $500,000). Across the South, big illegal pits run wide open, from Pass Christian, Miss, to Clovis, N.Mex...