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...newsiest whizzer on Tuesday nights is Pot o' Gold, sponsored by Turns, which offers $1,000 each week over the telephone to someone selected by a studio Wheel of Fortune out of a collection of U. S. telephone books. In its brief span on the air (since Sept. 26), Pot o' Gold has handed out $20,000 to stay-at-homes from Massachusetts to California, has almost tripled its audience to a hopeful 15,000,000 or so. Despite the enormous odds against winning, some ardent rainbow-chasers do no telephoning while Pot o' Gold...
...Sunday. This season another big radio night has popped up to plague cinemen: Tuesday. Of the 45 U. S. weekly radio shows credited with better than average audiences by Cooperative Analysis of Broadcasting for January,† ten were Tuesday-nighters, and three of these-Fibber McGee & Molly, Bob Hope, Pot o' Gold-were among radio'seight leading programs. Other Tuesday-night mainstays: Big Town, Information Please, We, the People, Aldrich Family, Battle of the Sexes, Court of Missing Heirs, Cavalcade of America, Second Husband, Uncle Walter's Doghouse...
...Pot o' Gold was permitted on the strict NBC air in belief that it was no lottery. Generally a lottery involves chance, prize and consideration. Pot o' Gold had chance and prize money, but it peddled no tickets. For a chance at the prize, no one had to pay or to do anything. But from the start, the Federal Communications Commission has been pestered with hundreds of complaints about Pot o' Gold. Some came from straight moralists, a few from folks who thought they should have won. But most were from radio stations which had refused similar...
After that it was easy for the Finns, who knew the territory, to spy them out and pot them...
...Bodanzky's assistant. Though Manhattan critics admitted that Leinsdorf was not bad for a beginner they com plained that the Met was no place for a beginner. There were rumors that the Met's stars liked Mr. Leinsdorf no better than the critics did. The pot simmered. Last week the lid blew...