OTHER NEWS - Dec. 8, 1995
Hospital Gets Winnings in McDonald’s Contest: The winner of a McDonald’s Monopoly peel-off contest took a game piece worth $1 million, put it in a plain white envelope and mailed it anonymously to Memphis’ St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital and its young cancer patients. St. Jude administrator Richard Shadyac called it “a holiday miracle.” Game rules bar the legal transfer of winning pieces from one person to another. But McDonald’s agreed to make good on the payoff, which will be made in 20 annual payments of $50,000 each.
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