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...Wheel! Of! Fortune! Comes! To! Princeton...
Princeton students will be pursuing answers to these less-than-scholarly questions this spring when they represent their school on the syndicated game show "Wheel of Fortune" during its "college week" in early...
...that, the mayor proposed a series of reforms, including a panel to monitor appointments. He also plans to forbid officers of political parties to do business with the city. Says Media Consultant David Garth, a longtime Koch adviser: "When the mayor really wants to put his shoulder to the wheel, he is very tough." But the critics are still out on whether Koch can stage a comeback...
What accounts for its amazing popularity? Partly it is the elementary but engaging word game (many puzzles are devised personally by Creator Merv Griffin, who also wrote the show's theme music), partly the hypnotic allure of the wheel itself. It may also be a function of Host Sajak, whose low-key, faintly ironic style is a welcome break from most game-show gush. "As a game- show host, there's always the temptation to do a parody of one, to do a rapid- fire delivery and smile a little more," says Sajak, 39, who was a weatherman for KNBC...
Then there is White, "part of the mystery of the show," as Sajak sees it. A native of North Myrtle Beach, S.C., she drove to Hollywood in a U-Haul in 1980, landed a couple of movie bit roles, and was hired as Wheel's tile- turning hostess in 1982. "Turning letters isn't a hard job," admits White, 29. "But you do have to use your peripheral vision and listen to everything." White is quite proud of her performance: "I've never turned over a wrong tile." Indeed, her only major gaffe was the time she tripped and fell...