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Word: tujunga (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...quiz business two challengers confronted Van Doren. Eleven-year-old Leonard Ross of Tujunga, Calif., an astoundingly precocious know-it-all about the stock market, moved ahead of Van Doren as a money winner by adding the jackpot of The $64,000 Challenge to his take of $100,000 from The Big Surprise. And CBS's I Love Lucy, which NBC hopes to jar out of its five-year supremacy, still kept a narrow lead of five Trendex rating points over Twenty One. But as Van Doren turned down movie offers and sweated out his weekly decision whether...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Wizard of Quiz (Contd.) | 2/25/1957 | See Source »

...Kaye may yet have his way. For despite his knowledge of Wall Street which won the NBC-TV award, Ross only stands in the top half of the seventh grade in Tujunga, Calif., which is not likely to get him into Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: $100,000 Quiz Winner Wants to Come Here | 5/22/1956 | See Source »

...American who did best at the stock market last week was a ten-year-old boy. Leonard Ross, 4 ft. 4 in. tall, of Tujunga, Cal., started reading books about far-off Wall Street at the age of seven, when his father, a certified public accountant, roused his interest in the market. Once Lenny had acquired some learning, it was plain that the way to make a killing without risking the capital he didn't have was to become a contestant on a television quiz show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Winners | 4/30/1956 | See Source »

VERNA DRESCH LARRABEE Tujunga, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 15, 1952 | 9/15/1952 | See Source »

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