Ballyhoo (Feb 5, 1954)

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89 cece WHAT'S WITH OUR I've just completed a comparison of our entries to date with the same period last year when JACKPOT JAMBOREE was in full swing % amd, you know what? I'm not too happy about it %% Sure you send in entries most of you that is but they seem to lack the life and sparkle we've become accustomed to. I'm thenkZul that we have showmen like Jim McDonough, Art Cauley, Bob Harvey, Paul Turnbull, Len Gouin and a couple of others to keep the old pot in 4 simmer „ They do things right, and their stuff is good, really good ... but I expect the same deal from every one of my managers „%, not just a handful. Perhaps I made a mistake in giving you a six month breathing spell between drives „„ or perhaps you feel, as one manager obviously dees, that your business is so good that vou don't have to werry about BALLYHOO ... Well, I've got news for you ... The success ef this contest depends on the participation of BEVERY MANAGER in this group, and for my dough, it’s going te be a succose < but geod. I expect „, and insist, on an entry for EVERY MARAGES ... EVERY WERK during the tera of this contest and that means you Ted, and Herb. There are no prizes for goose-egz totels Come on gang „% let us have a revival of that old spirit which mde this district the mosttalked about in the entire industry ... I know you can de it ... IF YOU TRY ... 30, hitch up those britches, and START TRYIN 0 8 I'm going to hold this issue up a couple of days to give the late-comers a chance to get their stuff in, so that IJ can publish our first score-board, covering the four weeks in January. Check your standing, and see how you stack up alongside our winning shetmen,. X. XX. X. X