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...Logan Evans '36, the campus notable who recently dove into a nearby garbage truck during one of his famous speeches from the steps of Widener, also has a Christmas wish. "I want $20,000 so that I can get my theory published and disseminated," says the trivia buff. Clark J. Preshman Janefar A. Khageen
...board favorites. Sales this year of Scrabble sets are up 27%, to 2 million, and dollar sales of Parker Brothers' Clue are up 20%. Psychologists and sociologists are searching for an explanation for Trivial Pursuit's phenomenal popularity. Says Psychology Professor Ricki Levenson of New York University: "Trivia plugs into everybody's secret addiction to gossip. Knowledge of trivia, like the name of Princess Di's hairdresser, is mental junk food that people delight in consuming...
From Teddy bears to trivia, they sell like there is no tomorrow...
...most recent calendar rage, however, has virtually no pictures at all. The fat little memo-pad-style, day-at-a-time calendars work on words. At least half a dozen companies produce a variety of them, including one called Murphy's Law (Price/Stern/Sloan) and others for sports trivia, Bible verses, computer terms, astrological signs and even dirty jokes. The 365 new-words-a-year calendar (Workman) made both lists, with offerings like "Dionysian . . . recklessly uninhibited; frenzied." The success is in the format, says Publisher Peter Workman. "Each day they entertain, surprise and educate, like books you can savor piece...
...equals some kind of bang." And, it might be added, a considerable amount of bucks. None of the heart-stopping chart figures chronicling Frankie's astounding home land success are provided, perhaps because the stats are so widely known and already en route into the pantheon of pop trivia...