Running Numbers

18,850 Attendance for Elvis's last concert at the Spectrum, May 28, 1977

888 First triple number drawn in The Daily Number game of the Pennsylvania Lottery, also on May 28, 1977. (A bad omen for Elvis, who died exactly 80 days later.)

$195 Amount of money the World Affairs Council paid people to listen to Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld talk for an hour before lunch on May 25. Strike that, reverse it. It was after lunch. Oh, and the audience had to pay.

20 Mike Schmidt's uniform number, retired by the Phillies on May 26, 1990

12 Number of pretzels I received on my US Airways flight from Philly to Chicago last week

—Nick Norlen

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