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News Briefs
..... Robert E. Mullane, vice president of Bally Manufacturing
Corporation, was elected chairman and president of the company
on December 16.
He succeeds William T. O'Donnell, who stepped
down ef fective the same date.
O'Donnell resigned to expedite
a temporary casino permit for Bally's Park Place hotel/casino
in Atlantic City, New Jersey.
Mullane, 47 , also is president
of Bally's wholly-owned subsidiary, Bally Distributing . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . The Jukebox Awards Show, aired January 8 by NBC and entitled
" A Tribute to the Jukebox Awards", featured guest appearances by
the two artists who copped more honors than any other artists --
Donna Summer and Kenny Rogers.
Hosts were Mac Davis and George
Segal.
Other artists who appeared were as follows: Kingston
Trio, Kay Starr, Bobby Vinton, Henry Mancini, Teresa Brewer, Ro-
berta Flack, the Commodores, Judy Collins, Peaches and Herb, Frank-
ie Avalon,
and Anne Murray .... .. ......... .
. . . . . Condolences to Joe Robbins, president of Empire Distributing
in Chicago, on the death of his wife of an apparent heart attack
in the couple's Florida home.
Check next month's PLAY METER for
further details..............
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..... Station-Break Family Amusement Center, located on the LIRR
shopping concourse in Penn Station, is conducting a Star Trek
"Win-a-Pin" sweepstakes.
Grand prize for the pinball and game
contest is a professional electronic Star Trek pinball machine.
Other prizes include video and pinball parties and Station Break
teeshirts.
No purchase necessary.
Contest e nds at 5 p.m. Feb-
ruary 10, 1980 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . .
. . . . . The Washburne Trade School in Chicago is admitti n g students
to its 47-week training course on the servicing of electro-mechani -
cal amusement machines (repairs, maintenance, and trouble-shootin g ).
Enrollees must be seventeen years old and a licensed driver.
No tuition is charged to Chicago residents.
Call 312-641-4862
for further information . ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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PLAY METER, January, 1980
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