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When the telephone rang in the six-room walkup apartment of Mr. & Mrs. Benjamin Cohen of The Bronx, Mrs. Cohen, a 42-year-old grandmother, lifted the receiver. Carefully she answered the three questions put to her by the man at the other end of the line. At that point, Mrs. Cohen walked into pandemonium. She had hit the $28,000 jackpot on CBS's Sing It Again giveaway program...
...consecutive years on radio (only Amos 'n' Andy has run longer), a Broadway play and road company, a comic strip, vaudeville sketches and a television show (Mon. 9:30 p.m., CBS-TV). In all the years, the Goldbergs have never managed to climb out of their Bronx tenement at 1038 East Tremont Avenue (in real life, 1038 is a street intersection). The Goldbergs have never made Park Avenue. But their creator, plump, 50-year-old Gertrude Berg, did. She has also bought a country estate on the more than $1,000,000 she has earned from the multiple...
Winthrop Rockefeller was stuck with a $5 fine for doing 50 through The Bronx...
...Mary Sangenino, 52, of The Bronx, had troubles too. She got on the subway with a box of cookies and a brown paper bag containing her life savings-$12,500 in bills. Then she got so interested in a comic book that she left the bag behind when she got off at New Lots Avenue, Brooklyn. That was the last...
...Bronx, Tri-Boro Motors Inc. offered an allowance of $500 "on any truck that will run, creep or crawl into our lot," or $300 on any horse, mule or goat traded in on the purchase of a new Ford truck...