Winner takes all (property)
(N.Z.P. A.-Reuter—Copyright} ' NEW YORK. Alvin Aldridge, an expert' wheeler and dealer in mythical Atlantic City real estate, was on Saturday acclaimed the winner and new champion of the monopoly world. Aldridge achieved total ' victory in the final of thel second Annual World Mon-! I opoly Championship, winding up with every piece of property on the board in hisl ■ hands. A reticent 23-year-old accounting student, he could' find nothing to say about his [win except: “It’s really beyond words.” Aldridge could have elimi-; nated two of his opponents earlier, by forcing them to sell properties to the bank. Instead, he bought the properties from his mounting “fortune,” making it possible for them to go on playing. "I love the game,” he said, the first time he saved an opponent from ruin. “I want it to go on a little longer,” i
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Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33700, 25 November 1974, Page 20
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