Word: queene
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...peddle his papers. Hovering near by with a handy Kleenex, Bailey cackled cheerfully into the TV camera. Her wish was modest enough: clothes for the boys. It was no contest. With a burst of applause, the studio audience of 900 sister sobbers one day last week named Phyllis Adams "Queen...
...Laments of Contestants. By blending this mixture of trouble and bubbles, NBC's Queen for a Day has become television's hottest daytime property. Every afternoon Monday through Friday, some 10 million TViewers-nearly half the nation's audience at that time-follow the laments of five contestants, and the contrapuntal clownings of M.C. Bailey, 48. An additional 1,000,000 or more listeners tune in the show on the Mutual radio network...
During its twelve years, Queen for a Day has sifted the short and simple annals of some 15,000 women, judged 3,100 unhappy enough to be crowned winners, and given out prizes worth $14 million, almost all donated by manufacturers in exchange for a plug on the air. Average take per queen: $4,000 in gifts, plus four dozen roses, a wardrobe and a one-day tour of Hollywood in a gold Cadillac...
Bailey and the show's staff of 30 usually manage to fulfill every queen's wish, no matter how outlandish. (One notable failure: "World peace.") The show hires detective agencies to run down lost children, once sent a winner to barber's college. "One lady wished for an electric eel," says Bailey. "She wanted, to make a broth for her son to help his asthma." Without asking any questions, the show tracked down an eel and delivered...
...must confess I still don't know what sort of bird it was.'' At one point he played a record of some pidgin English. "It is a very old language," he explained, "and has to be learned. For instance, they called me 'Fella belong Mrs. Queen...