Word: slots
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...station show was the "holy mess" Billy's team imagined, nobody else seemed to notice. Variety tagged it a "surefire click," hailed Billy as "tremendous box office." Trendex awarded him an 8.1 rating, highest ever registered by ABC for the crucial time slot opposite TV Titans Jackie Gleason and Perry Como. (Said Perry: "Very fine rating." Said Jackie: "No comment.") That meant (if the rating systems can be relied on to calculate audiences) an audience of about 7,000,000, biggest single congregation in the history of U.S. evangelism and enough to fill the Garden every...
...Song makes the best hot-weather din-and-tonic, thinks NBC. The 7:30 evening slot will be tryout time for promising Vocalist June (Crying in the Chapel) Valli. Baritone Andy Williams and resurgent, as-good-as-ever Helen O'Connell. Tennessee Ernie Ford will end his daytime pea-pickin' at June's end and be replaced by Bride and Groom, the old daytime stand-by that marries couples on the air and presents them with gifts, a reception and honeymoon. Arthur Murray Party, a perennial replacement, has already bounced cheerily on screen in full color...
...police removed a slip of paper from his jacket, photostated it, and returned the paper to the jacket--all unknown to Costello, who was explaining that he "did not have an enemy in the world." The slip of paper listed winnings and I.O.U.'s from an unspecified casino and slot machines, the total being nearly one million dollars...
...from Frenchman's Bend into the vacuum behind the first one's next advancement by that same sort of osmosis by which . . . they had covered Frenchman's Bend, the chain unbroken, every Snopes in Frenchman's Bend moving up one step, leaving the last slot in the bottom open for the next Snopes to appear from nowhere and fill . . ." Thus Faulkner attempts to set a whole town talking at once about itself and in its own tone of voice. He deliberately imitates the total recall of a village wiseacre who insists on telling a captive audience...
...slot for returning Widener books, located near the entrance, was recently sealed up when additional housing space for the library catalogue was constructed...