Posted
8:52 AM
by Gene
Bert Parks sang last night, but not about Atlantic City.CMT officials kept expectations low: They said they would be happy if they got a million viewers to their network....TRANSLATION: 1. SUMNER's bifurcated empire's managing expectations, and 2. If we get a tenth of the audience, we should (by rights) get a tenth of the ad revenues, meaning the pageant's under new management soon, or out of business.
P. S.
How clever PR keeps CURLEY'S (Nyuk! Nyuk! Nyuk!) STOOGES' expenses down -- by avoiding having to report anything:Miss America rolled the dice moving to Las Vegas, and the gamble paid off, according to organizers _ [SIC]
for the pageant, its new network and the casino that played host. [Lead graf]
The [contestants] also shared bathrooms, doubling up at the Aladdin hotel-casino to help keep expenses down. [SIXTEENTH graf]