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...President-elect James McMahon was instrumental in what Beckett calls the Dins' "search for new sources." Having studied the South African singing group Ladysmith Black Mombazo, McMahon arranged both the dance and the music for a risky version of "You Can Call Me Al," soloed by Larry "Wheel of Fortune" Witdorchic. McMahon's fused all of Ladysmith's guttural African sounds, along with Paul Simon's quiet New York nasality, into one arrangement...
They used different modes of transportation. The Adelphi lacrosse team was riding in a golf cart. Harvard was sitting behind the wheel of a Ferrari...
...show is selling briskly: 118 stations, covering 84% of the country, have bought it thus far, and most plan to air it in the lucrative hour just before prime time, when game shows like Wheel of Fortune predominate. What bothers network news executives, however, is the decision by Washington's WUSA-TV (also owned by Gannett) to push the CBS Evening News up by 30 minutes to make room for it. New York City's WCBS-TV is expected to make the same move. These stations can keep more of the ad revenues with a syndicated show in that time...
...could buy 72.84 vowels on Wheel of Fortune...
...laying the foundation for his fortune, using game shows as the building blocks. With his wife at the time, Julann, he devised a program whose gimmick was the simplest of inversions -- giving the answer and asking for the question. Jeopardy's success funded Griffin's other investments, including Wheel of Fortune, the most profitable syndicated show ever, with estimated revenues of more than $100 million a year. The two shows were the trophy properties in Griffin's sale of his production company to Coca-Cola...