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...Lincoln, Neb., Governor Dwight Griswold began reckoning the cost of his bet with 27 other Governors that Nebraska would sell a bigger percentage of bonds. The payoff: a corn-fed hog to each. His problem: how to get around an OPA regulation that he must pay full ration points (about 810 red points-a 50-week supply) for each & every...
Because the three professionals beat the contestants' jokes about 75% of the time, their show has probably the lowest sponsor payoff of any program on the air. Advised that this might kill the program, Senator Ford observed: "We're hammy enough to want to win all the time." The Senator, who thought up the show and owns it, claims that no new jokes have been sent in. He is not surprised. He and his colleagues spend most of their time modernizing old wheezes. Last week Laurie was at work on the oldest of all. He had the first...
...hands were those of the great Thomas Wright ("Fats") Waller, short-time student of Leopold Godowsky and lifelong admirer of James P. Johnson, the great professor of Jamaica, L.I. Even a tyro in such matters might easily guess what experts have known for years: that Fats Waller is the payoff in the classic American jazz piano style-full-chorded and hallelujah...
...payoff came when my baggage was delayed ten days. . . . Can't we at least restrict the cats and dogs in the baggage...
...interests who knew how to get along with politicians, the track started out as a wonderful racket. Today, with respectable Boston names on its board of directors and a totalizator to compute and publicly quote the odds, there is no tampering with greyhounds, no back-room rigging of the payoff...