Word: winners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Travis Kerr's top-weighted (130 Ibs.), four-year-old Round Table made his move at the far turn, and Willie Shoemaker brought him home the winner by a comfortable 2½ lengths in the $85,200 Arlington Handicap in Illinois. First money of $54,100 gave Round Table career earnings of $1,215,114, just $73,451 behind the retired Nashua, alltime earnings champion...
Waiting nervously in a studio anteroom one morning, a Dotto stand-by contestant had noticed a woman contestant, already a steady winner, stealthily studying a set of notes. When the woman left the room -and left her notes behind-the stand-by grabbed them. A quick reading told the tale: someone was feeding the woman advance information. Her answers were all prepared; she could not lose. The stand-by rushed to a Dotto bigwig with the incriminating evidence and peddled his promise of silence...
...person who had been hanging around the show for days, the only real surprise was the stand-by's shock at his discovery. "Every single one of us was briefed beforehand," one Dotto winner told TIME last week. "But it was all done so subtly, you could never say positively that you'd been given any specific answer. One day I finally went up to one of the producers and said: 'How on earth can you get away with it?' He looked me right in the eye and said, 'I don't know what...
...Supreme Court Justice Shneor Cheshin read each question, Amos Hacham would painfully draw himself up, holding his breath, his body rigid. Then the answer would come suddenly, in a harsh, monotonous cry. He missed scarcely a question. When it was over, Amos was hands-down winner of the first prize - a grey-green, 2,000-year-old glass vase from a tomb at Beth Shearim. Runner-up was France's Simone Dumont, Baptist teacher and a publisher of children's books, who won an ancient silver shekel. Third prize, a gold coin commemorating the tenth anniversary of Israel...
...contestants privately complained about the Jewish advantage in having only the Old Testament to master, and one of the jury admitted that "it wasn't quite fair to set a Jew against those who give to the New Testament equal importance with the Old." But Winner Amos Hacham this week is a hero in Israel...