Word: winners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...audience antagonism if anyone loses right away. In a high percentage of cases, the program went in accordance with the plot. There was a big discussion on how long we should go before somebody would be allowed to win $100,000. We teased first with a few $50,000 winners. In terms of showmanship, we had to work out the ideal timing and the ideal winner." The producers chose 70-year-old Mrs. Ethel Richardson of Los Angeles, a folk-song buff. For a switch, they decided the next big winner should be a young schoolboy. They settled...
...there is no getting around the Crimson's power. In every event, with the exception of the pole vault, the varsity enters a potential winner, while in the 440, the 220 low hurdles, the two-mile, and the hammer throw the Crimson threatens sweeps...
Robert Strom, 10, tonight became television's biggest quiz show money winner. Juggling five different fields of science in his head...
That did it. From then on, Mrs. Phyllis Adams had all the tearmarks of a winner. Painfully, she told how her two oldest boys were planning to leave school because they were ashamed of their clothes, and how the youngest had to get up at 3:30 a.m. to peddle his papers. Hovering near by with a handy Kleenex, Bailey cackled cheerfully into the TV camera. Her wish was modest enough: clothes for the boys. It was no contest. With a burst of applause, the studio audience of 900 sister sobbers one day last week named Phyllis Adams "Queen...
Bailey and the show's staff of 30 usually manage to fulfill every queen's wish, no matter how outlandish. (One notable failure: "World peace.") The show hires detective agencies to run down lost children, once sent a winner to barber's college. "One lady wished for an electric eel," says Bailey. "She wanted, to make a broth for her son to help his asthma." Without asking any questions, the show tracked down an eel and delivered...