In Other News...
We are gathering articles of interest. They are archived by their published date. Articles featuring Carolyn, or The Contest Queen can be found here. All articles are in Adobe PDF format, unless otherwise noted.
| 2008.05.27 |
Scam artists play 'dialing for dollars'
By Lawrence Walsh, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette |
| 2008.05.24 |
Bad Marketing takes contest users aback
By James Daw, TheStar.com |
| 2008.03.08 |
Sweepstakes Addicts Win Big!
'Sweepers' Treat Entering Contests Like A Job And Have The Rewards To Show For It
By Ron Claiborne and Michael Milberger |
| 2008.02.28 |
Local woman wins sweepstakes
by Jason Smith, The Facts.com |
| 2008.02.13 |
Win a free divorce at W.Va. radio station
Canoe Network, cnews |
| 2008.02.07 |
Winner Takes All
Inside the prize-filled trophy home of a seemingly obsessive compulsive contest enterer
By Caitlin E. Curran, The Phoenix |
| 2008.01.30 |
Local woman wins truck through online sweepstakes
by Kelly Young, Your Jacksonville Daily Progress |
| 2008.01.27 |
Donna wins the luckiest job on earth
by Lana Verco, The Sydney Morning Herald |
| 2007.10.00 |
Do you suffer from bad luck?
by Adrian Savage |
| 2007.09.23 |
Contest winner: It's more about persistence than luck
by Susan Gilmore, Seattle Times staff reporter |
| 2007.09.02 |
Winners have a stake in dozens of contests
by Paula Lloyd, McClatchy Newspapers |
| 2007.07.14 |
Raffle ticket sales champs have lucky edge
by Hillary Wundrow, Daily News staff writer |
| 2007.06.23 |
Yo, ho ho! Local company goes after 'Pirates' deal
Burlingame's Limbo 41414 plans text messaging contest with movie, book tie-ins
by Aaron Kinney, InsideBayArea.com |
| 2007.06.21 |
Weltys get traveling call
Internet contest sends family to Cleveland
by Nathan Lindquist, The Register-Mail |
| 2007.06.12 |
Want to win big? Talk to Rosemary
by Joan Ransberry, Staff Writer - yorkregion.com |
| 2007.05.17 |
Author Terry Ryan, 60 dies in San Francisco Home
Terry Ryan, author of the bestselling book, "The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio: How My Mother Raised 10 Kids on 25 Words or Less," died Wednesday at her home in San Francisco. She was 60.
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| 2007.03.18 |
The Secret life of self-help books
Ask. Believe. Receive. Or not... by Murray Whyte/Toronto Star |
| 2007.02.00 |
Want to win $10,000 a year?
With enough persistence, you don't need luck |
| 2006.12.00 |
Get Lucky! by Susanne Ruder
From the December 2006 issue of PROFIT magazine. |
| 2006.11.26 |
'The Secret' to Success?
Hit Internet Movie Claims to Reveal Centuries-Old Secret to Getting What You Want in Life by Frank Mastropolo |
| 2006.08.29 |
Gimme, gimme gets
They've got it, you want it, here's how to get it all for free |
| 2006.08.23 |
Choose winning way with all 10 digits in one system
It's a three-digit maximum-effort boxing system that uses all 10 of the possible digits and should only be used when conditions are right. |
| 2006.08.18 |
Hollywood, the I.R.S. Is Watching
Hollywood celebrities who show up at awards ceremonies and leave with armloads of booty can expect one more item with their gift baskets: a tax form. |
| 2006.03.08 |
Rim-rolling girls fight for prize
Found cup leads to spat over vehicle |
| 2006.03.07 |
Roll up rim to win without a coffee
If the Roll Up The Rim To Win contest at Tim Hortons has become a Canadian spring ritual, then surely the number of people expected to cop free cups to play is a national shame. |
| 2006.02.22 |
Eight share $365M US lottery win
Eight lottery players in the US have shared $365M (£210m) jackpot - the biggest win in the game's history. |
| 2005.12.22 |
Catalan town blessed with massive wins in lottery
Christmas lottery, showering $612 million US in winnings on a town with the bite-size name of Vic. |
| 2005.10.29 |
Slow payout OK by kicker
Gets $25Gs a year over 40 years |
| 2005.10.27 |
$1 million kick
Toronto - Brian Diesbourg made the kick that mattered Thursday night. |
| 2005.10.20 |
Constant contestants
A new breed of enter-to-win enthusiasts are answering all the skill-testing questions they can in order to win big. |
| 2005.06.18 |
The burning issue of Quebec's exclusion from North American contests Void in Puerto Rico, Quebec and New York. This legal small print appears on all almost 90% of North American sweepstakes and contests. |
| 1940.10.21 |
Contestor's Holiday
Into Manhattan last week trooped 221 delegates to the National Contesters' Association's fourth annual convention. |
