Senior Wins Pantyhose for Life

While Harvard students will receive Knowledge to last a lifetime during their classes this morning, one senior will receive a lifetime supply of pantyhose at 10 a.m. by spinning the "whammy wheel" on a television game show.

Cabot House resident James D. Woods III '85, who will appear this morning in a taped segment of Press Your Luck, the "big bucks, no whammy" television game show this morning, earned his valuable prize by answering trivia questions during the program's special college week series.

During Spring Break, Woods participated in the wheel-spinning action and spent an all expense paid weekend--featuring fine dining and posh hotel accomodations--in Hollywood, Calif.

Woods was selected to compete on the popular program based on a snapshot revealing his "good looks" and a trivia test conducted by phone several weeks ago, said Robert Edwards, contestant supervisor for the C.B.S. morning game show.

Although some contestants have walked away with more than $100,000 in cash and prizes, Woods could only spin his way to a ten-speed blender, some rice, cortisone cream, and the Leg's pantyhose.

Woods said that he expects the first shipment of pantyhose to arrive at his Cabot House room within a few days.

The show's winner, and Ohio State student, won $14,000 in prizes.

On the show, contestants who correctly answer "general knowledge trivia questions" are permitted to spin the "Whammy wheel" which offers cash and prizes. But, if the "whyammy" turns up, not only does the player lose a turn, but also all the prizes and money which he or she had previously accumulated. Woods answered three questions correctly and spun three times, but in each turn he spun a "whammy."

Woods got his chance at big bucks by filling out an application for the show which he received from his friend Robert S. Kean '85, a Lampoon business manager. Twenty such applications arrived at the Lampoon after the dean of the College's officer. refused the honor of distributing them for C.B.S.

Woods and two other seniors, Peter Dineen and Edward S. Sharples, were interviewed over the phone as finalist before Woods was finally chosen.

Despite his poor luck, Woods did not return to Cambridge empty handed. For participating in two advertisements for the program, Woods was given several hundred dollars, he said