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Besu says she especially enjoyed "chatting with Pat and Vanna" during the breaks between sessions...

Author: By Eugenia B. Schraa, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Senior to Star on Game Show | 12/11/2000 | See Source »

...actress Janet Jones in Canada's royal wedding, and a month later was sold to L.A. to teach the Americans about hockey and break his own country's heart. (A clearly troubled Canadian House leader complained that "the Edmonton Oilers without Wayne Gretzky is like Wheel of Fortune without Vanna White.") Gretzky moved again to St. Louis, Mo., and then to New York, but his quest for another Cup would not be fulfilled. The New York Rangers, a mess of a club, have been unable to commit to winning, so Gretzky decided to cut the tragedy short before people started...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wayne Gretzky: The Great One Skates Away | 4/26/1999 | See Source »

...internment camps of Sarajevo, appears mysteriously at the door of a convent. Quickly taken in by the nuns and the scholars in residence, this girl, Andrea, charms everyone. Her obsession with the show Wheel of Fortune becomes a central theme of the novel. Codrescu's interest focuses on Vanna White, a subject of mass worship who brings meaning to the world by connecting letters into words. References to the game-show throughout the novel bring with them the hope that somehow all the loose ends will eventually be tied...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Creole PI and Sarejevo Refugee Share Pleasure and the World Is Saved | 3/5/1999 | See Source »

After I had played Vanna in our garage, our young Pat Sajak wanted to replace bolts. My mother did not want new bolts, so I had to stall until my mother arrived to argue against the unwelcome bolts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: POSTCARD FROM NEW ROCHELLE | 8/14/1998 | See Source »

...select few may have actually spun the wheel and clapped along with Vanna; fewer still are those who realize that the value of a letter is actually inversely proportional to its frequency. Your immediate wealth increases when five "S"s appear on the board, but in the long run, those "S"s really won't narrow down the identity of word as much as a single "Q" might...

Author: By Andrea H. Kurtz, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Value of a Vowel | 5/15/1998 | See Source »

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