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Word: jackpot (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Jackpot Bowling (NBC, 10:30-11 p.m.). Milton Berle is host in a new program involving the best U.S. professional bowlers in alley-fighting competition for big-time pin money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Time Listings, Sep. 26, 1960 | 9/26/1960 | See Source »

...Peerless Paper Box Co., Inc., pushed right on up to become one of the firm's vice presidents. He applied equal energy to Democratic politics in Harlem, where, as a faithful Tammany Hall wheel horse, he won seven elections to the state assembly. Jack's jackpot came in 1953 when Tammany, forewarned of Republican plans to nominate a Negro for borough president of Manhattan, dumped two white hopefuls, gave Jack the nod. Elected and re-elected four years later, Hulan Jack stood as one of the nation's highest-ranking Negro officeholders-until last week, when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: Borrowing Trouble | 1/25/1960 | See Source »

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