Word: pinnings
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Pinball's rebirth is especially visible in suburban shopping centers. The bells ring again on college campuses, in airports, clubs and hotels. Even in Las Vegas, where any form of competition to the lucrative slots was discouraged, at least ten major hotels now have space reserved for pin play. A Midwestern firm has installed pins to keep its salesmen on a competitive kick at lunchtime. Celebrated pinball addicts-who do not call themselves pinheads-include Andrea McArdle, star of Annie; Bill Cosby, Ann-Margret, Mike Nichols, Sammy Davis Jr., Elliott Gould and, of course, Elton John, whose role...
Playboy Publisher Hugh Hefner has batteries of pins in both his Los Angeles and Chicago mansions and is negotiating with Bally, the GM of pin, to produce a Playmate machine with Bunnies on the back glass. (Ironically, D. Gottlieb & Co., Bally's chief rival, produced a model called Playboy back in 1932, when Hef was six years old.) The English, among the world's most passionate pin pushers, trace pinball's origins to the bagatelle board mentioned in Dickens' Pickwick Papers. Abe Lincoln was big on bagatelle. The sheiks of Araby are clamoring...
State Rep. Michael J. Connolly (D-Boston) strode into Faneuil Hall last night at the finish of a 12-day-long, 170 mile walk across Massachusetts decked out in a pin-striped suit and Adidas...
After a one-game scoring drought at Cornell, the Harvard offense was back on track yesterday. The front line exhibited good depth and the heel flicks and pin-point crosses which have become a part of the Harvard attack this year...
...Crimson linksters were tripped up by devilish pin placements and sloppy greens on the Hickory Ridge Golf Club yesterday as they finished third in the Tom Toski Invitational Tournament at Amherst...