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...quiz business two challengers confronted Van Doren. Eleven-year-old Leonard Ross of Tujunga, Calif., an astoundingly precocious know-it-all about the stock market, moved ahead of Van Doren as a money winner by adding the jackpot of The $64,000 Challenge to his take of $100,000 from The Big Surprise. And CBS's I Love Lucy, which NBC hopes to jar out of its five-year supremacy, still kept a narrow lead of five Trendex rating points over Twenty One. But as Van Doren turned down movie offers and sweated out his weekly decision whether...
When the Journal received the crudely printed letter (signature: F.P.), it decided to withhold the story from police and aim for the jackpot: the bomber's surrender. Instead of printing the letter, the Journal ran a wily item in its Personals column intimating that it would "help" the bomber if he gave himself up. The ad caught the eye of World-Telegram Managing Editor Richard Starnes, who guessed immediately that the Journal had received a letter from the bomber, checked out his hunch, and broke a Page One story on the bomber's "new letter...
...financial troubles and living on a $20-a-week dole, Charles E. ("Commando") Kelly, 36, who won the Medal of Honor after killing 40 Germans in one day on the Italian front, struck it rich on CBS's Strike It Rich. He won the show's $500 jackpot, then got $240.25 more plus an offer of the down payment on a house from sympathetic listeners. To top it all, President Eisenhower sent him a cheering message, recalling how "you rallied to the defense of your comrades," expressing pride "to see your neighbors rallying to your relief...
...jackpot winner was Linda Bartlett of California. Miss Bartlett may have been wanted by the Crimeds for their title, but when she was asked to appear a week later at a pre-Army game rally, Associate Dean Watson refused to give his permission...
Last week, after thinking it over for two weeks, Maria came back-in a modest black dress. The technicians were careful of their camera angles. Less important, perhaps, Maria also correctly placed some lines in Prometheus Bound, bringing her one headline closer to the $8,300 jackpot...