Word: slots
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Peabody with her mother at Chicago's glossy Pump Room, Brigid downed two full dinners, including two bowls of whipped cream for dessert. The professional goodies are just starting. After the Peabody Award last week, the Blue Fairy is almost a sure bet for a network time slot soon...
...with Admiral Nimitz. Establishing headquarters in Hawaii, he spent the summer canvassing the combat area of the South Pacific. He survived the Japanese air attack on Guadalcanal and saw even more action on the night of July 12, when his ship engaged in a skirmish as it crossed the "slot" between Guadalcanal and Bougainville. A brief review of Atlantic waters notwithstanding, he stayed in the South Pacific until the end of the year aboard the heavy cruiser Baltimore, which was involved in the capture of the Gilberts. Morison was on the ship when the carrier Liscome Bay, alongside, was torpedoed...
Behind Piatigorsky is Mark Woodbury at number two, who should start in the top slot on most teams. Last year at Andover he managed to take a set from Bob Bowditch, number one on the Crimson varsity this spring. Woodbury is very quick on his feet, and it takes outstanding power to beat...
...team stood at the end of the tour, sophomore Bob Bowditch had edged junior Tim Gallwey out for the number one singles slot. Neither of them did particularly well on the trip, but Barnaby expects an improved showing with more work. Captain Ned Weld occupies the third position, with junior Fred Vinton at number four, Sohpomore Jorge Lemann and junior Bill Wood round...
...every innovation by the bandit-beaters, the operators develop a safeguard. And for every safeguard, there is a new way to hit the jackpot. "Hell," says one disgusted slot-machine mechanic, "you could surround the thing with sheet metal, and they will find a way to beat it." Yet for all the troubles with the professional jackpotters, there are always enough honest, ordinary suckers around to make the one-armed bandit history's healthiest highwayman...