Word: slotted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hand, the main stage can drop 28 ft. into the subterranean storage chambers and emerge with a teahouse, garden, bridge and cherry orchard all ready for Madame Butterfly's entrance. Meanwhile, the three wagons can be loaded with upcoming scenes and wait to glide into the center-stage slot at the push of a.button. For other effects, the backstage Merlins can conjure up storms and floods, encircle Brunnhilde in flame and smoke, or simply change night into day by unreeling one of two massive 110-ft. by 270-ft. cycloramas. For more subtle moods, there is a space...
...Joan, 30, is married to a Merrill Lynch junior executive, soon to be transferred to Detroit to the same job his father-in-law held some 30 years ago. Thomson has five grandchildren; and in preparation for visits from the older ones, he maintains in his Westfield home a slot machine of the sort classically known as a "one-armed bandit." He even furnishes the kids with dimes to try their luck at the monster. Explains he: "I want to teach them that no matter what they do, they're going to lose money when they gamble...
...been producing the tall corn since 1934, before most Americans now living were born. The late Major Bowes launched it on radio, and his top aide, Ted Mack, brought it to television in 1948. It is still the top-rated show in its time slot (5:30 p.m., E.D.T.), pulling 12,700,000 viewers a week. Last week, in a Methuselan milestone, its "wheel of fortune" went spinning for the 1,500th time...
...should he-when being so nasty makes him so popular? His morning hot-line radio show ranks No. 1 in its time slot among the 90-odd stations in the Los Angeles area. His local weekly TV interview show is doing just as well. Another TV program, taped for syndication, is carried weekly in three cities across the country and 21 more will be added in September. His syndicated radio interviews play daily in 254 cities, with an average ten new stations signing up each week. In addition, Pyne is host of NBC's daily Showdown, a typically mindless...
...Such an analysis is commonly made by sponsors if not by producers. In any case, Lowe noted, it is "ridiculous and incredible to believe that Carol Channing should need any help," because in both the Nielsen and Arbitron ratings, her special outdrew the second-place show in the time slot by millions of viewers. And even if somebody wished to rig the ratings, it would seem ridiculous for him to pay by check...