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BY LYLE KENYON ENGEL
SORRY, YOUR
Ever wonder how it feels to lose on a quiz program or, better yet, to win? Have you ever
Bert Parks and hostannouncer Bud Collyer cheer two lucky girls who go distance to win on "Break The Bank." Bert's married, has identical twin sons, six, a daughter, two.
Daughter and mother who won $8,120 for naming star of "Mildred Pierce."
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lo matter how heartbreaking it is to lose out on the main prize, every contestant feels they've won something by being on a Bert Parks Quiz Show.
Just imagine, here you are in New York City. You've always told yourself when you visit the big city the one thing you must see is "Break The Bank." Maybe get on the program.
You've written ahead for tickets and you're in the audience of CBS Playhouse #61. The lights are growing dim. The master light glows with its ON THE AIR message and Bert Parks, America's number one quizmaster, steps out with his opening question to the audience, "Anyone
want to Break The Bank?" Everybody yells back "YES!"
You relax in your seat and watch the evening's contestants being selected by the four production men who take care of this. You weren't selected; well, it's not in the cards, you guess.
The contestants go through their paces. All of a sudden a bell rings and you see a television camera being trained your way. The big Zoomar lense focuses on you. You're the center of the new feature just added to the show, "Bank Holdup."
You are a lucky one tonight and you've won three hundred dollars! Pretty good pay for answering only
one question, you have to. admit.
People from all walks of life have appeared on this top quiz show. Millions of dollars have been given away. Thousands of people have won money and prizes on the various Bert Parks shows.
Reviewing some of the Bank breakers, we realize that this show is really a cross section of the American public.
Three days before their wedding date, Miss Djuna Flaus Budington, of Stamford, Conn., and her fiance, A. Stuart Powell, Jr., of Swarthmore, Pa., won $2,250. Miss Budington, so excited she could hardly talk, said the money would pay for the furniture in their future home. They were married the
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