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...goat." Like Pyle, millions of World War II G.I.s learned to love the general-purpose vehicle, or Jeep, and when it made its civilian debut in 1945, it eventually rolled up the longest run for any model in U.S. automotive history. While it pioneered the booming market in four- wheel-drive vehicles, however, sales of the CJ (for civilian) Jeep dropped from 79,000 in 1978 to an expected 36,000 this year. Next month taps will sound for the basic Jeep: American Motors will replace it with a new, smoother-riding model, the YJ (the letters stand for nothing...
...Harvard Lampoon, the nation's oldest humor magazine, might have the world believe that it successfully humiliated hundreds of Princeton students by falsely telling them they would be on the popular game show Wheel of Fortune, and that they would meet celebrated hostess/cult figure Vanna White...
Posters were put up around the Princeton campus announcing that representatives from the Wheel of Fortune were coming to the central New Jersey college in search of students skilled at playing Hangman, the children's game on which Wheel of Fortune is based, said Daily Princetonian editor Ed V.W. Zschau...
...Wheel of Fortune has recently acquired something of a cult following, but no one really knows why, according to last week's airing of 20/20. The show's Lost, Pat Sajak, who was most recently employed as a TV weatherman in Los Angeles, attributed the show's popularity to himself. Other sources, however, said that it is the hostess of the show, Vanna White, who draws the viewers...
Besides selling reruns Murdoch will be able to offer the independents some brand-new shows produced by 20th Century-Fox's studios. This so-called first-run syndication business is flourishing right now. Among the biggest hits: Entertainment Tonight, Wheel of Fortune and People's Court. The Fox studio still lags behind such rivals as Paramount Television and Tribune Entertainment, an independent TV group that produces the cop opera Dempsey & Makepeace. 20th Century-Fox now makes only four shows for first-run syndication, including $100,000 Pyramid and Dance Fever. At the moment, Murdoch is in no hurry to assume...