Word: wingo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...railroader. Dance bands played regularly on the Prairie Queen, and they had great names: "The Kolachy Brothers, the Big Pisek Hot Band, Cecil Pootz and His Grafton Spuds, the Wonderbar Orchestra, and yes, the great Bill Baroon and His Paloreenies . . ." A marvelously spurious history of radio in Minneapolis produces "Wingo Beals and His Blue Movers," who lost their SunRise Waffle show at 5 a.m. daily to Slim Graves and His Southland Sheiks, featuring Courteous Carl Harper, the Guitar Man. "Rise and shine," Slim would tell his listeners every day, "sit up and howl, there's daylight in the swamps...
...Yankees--controversial, complicated and capable of generating more news and rumor than television could possibly cover--the Post carved a very comfortable niche for itself. The Murdoch formula quickly boosted circulation from 100,000 to 675,000 by 1977, and now--thanks largely to a cash giveaway contest called "Wingo"--he sells 910,000 every...
...comes out in the morning, the paper is locked into a format that features mostly game stories rather than the analysis, inside dope and rumor-mongering that pervades the Post. The only big success the News has had recently is its rather pathetic imitation of the Post's "Wingo" called "Zingo." "Zingo" has added 100,000 to the circulation, putting the News back to 1,483,333 everyday, but that is still nearly 450,000 below the 1976 level...