This industry must get off its ( . . . ) and merchandise its product. We are selling to the public, as well as to the operator and distributor. Our business is a novelty business and it needs new products and new thinking.

https://books.google.com/books?id=ix8EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA90&lpg=PA90#v=onepage&q&f=false

Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose!

(If you don't get this post look at the link, this is from a Williams guy from 1960! Love those old Billboard magazines, lots of interesting pinball articles.)

I learned that "bows" means "debuts" -- never heard that meaning before! Headline of the article didn't make much sense to me.

Love looking at the list of used machine prices, they sure didn't hold their value well back then.