'Concentration' prize he won't fur-get
Photo credit: Newsday / Audrey C. Tiernan | Kerry Corrie models the mink bolero her father-in-law, Jerry Palladino, won on “Concentration” in 1972. (Feb. 4, 2013)
The classic NBC-TV game show "Concentration" involved using your memory. Reading about Norm Blumenthal, producer of the long-running hit, in our Jan. 26 Act 2 cover story, certainly stirred the memory of Jerry Palladino, 58, of West Islip, who recalled being on the show in 1972.
One of his most vivid memories was solving the picture puzzle that translated into "Van Cliburn." ("It was a moving...