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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...idea born in Chicago, cradle of the slot machine, is a whopping success in Illinois. Listeners play it with Mu$1co cards, distributed each week by Kroger and National Tea Co. groceries in Chicago, Peoria and Rockford. Made up like Bingo cards, they have five rows of five spaces each, with tune titles instead of numbers. As the studio orchestra plays its string of some 20 tune choruses, listeners are supposed to identify and check off the titles on their cards. First one to fill a line across rushes to the telephone, dials a special number, shouts: "Musico!" Any single...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Rainbow's End | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

...READER Rockford...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 2, 1939 | 1/2/1939 | See Source »

...Rockford Plate & Window Glass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 8, 1937 | 11/8/1937 | See Source »

...Rockford...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 8, 1937 | 11/8/1937 | See Source »

Dean Mary Ashby Cheek, President-elect of Rockford College . . . . .LL.D...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Kudos Jun. 28, 1937 | 6/28/1937 | See Source »

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