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...House. Months before, Edwards had asked his studio audience a pointless query: "Is there a Mr. Wickel in the house?" The M.C. liked his little joke, repeated it, and in time it became a standard gag line. Then, on November 4, there was a Mr. Wickel in the house: listeners heard a meek response from a Verona, N.J. mechanical engineer named Rudolph J. Wickel. Edwards, rising to the occasion, promptly announced that $1,000 awaited Mr. Wickel's shovel in the Holyoke lot. Mr. Wickel joined the gold rush, but failed to find the money...
After the ensuing stampede, and after promising to make a park of the ruined lot and put a bust of Mr. Wickel in it, Edwards presented mild, bespectacled, disappointed Mr. Wickel with a check for $1,000. But there was no bank name on the check. Nevertheless, Mr. Wickel finally cashed it, at his own bank:-and received $1,000 in Confederate money. Asking for something more negotiable, he got a 1,400-lb. safe containing a little less than half of a $1,000 bill...