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Unlike Crosby, most bowling fans take more than a rooting interest. Egged on by TV (which devotes an estimated 9,000 hours each year to bowling), they have succumbed to an athletic urge to topple tenpins themselves. When the 54th annual championships began in Fort Worth last month, the American Bowling Congress needed every inch of the vast Will Rogers Memorial Coliseum to accommodate 16,000 competitors from all over the country. Last week, after five weeks of clamorous competition, the tournament was still drawing big crowds. With only two weeks to go, the battle was so close that...
...days, jolly, banjo-strumming Charlie Grimm last week sadly submitted his resignation as manager, was replaced by Coach Fred Haney, who led the lackluster, last-place Pirates of 1953-55. ¶On Lake Onondaga at Syracuse, N.Y., Cornell's brilliant eight-man crew easily won the 54th Intercollegiate Rowing Association regatta, began to point for the Olympic tryouts on June 28 and the veteran Navy crew (now the Admirals) that won the Olympics in 1952. Meanwhile, Yale, another Olympic threat, rowed merrily down the Thames at New London, Conn, to defeat ancient rival Harvard for the 54th time...
...anthropology classes have been cancelled for the last three days of this week because of the 54th annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Gordon R. Willey, chairman of the department, said last night...
...mile course from Butte to the Hoover Dam. Only the stars could be used to fix position. At least five minutes ahead of time, the observer was required to announce his estimated time of arrival at Hoover Dam. Joe Holguin's E.T.A. was 10:57:54. When the 54th second of the 57th minute ticked past, the City of Merced was two miles from Hoover...
Last week, the day after Bridges' 54th birthday, Federal Judge Louis E. Goodman read his ten-page verdict. Its substance: the Government had failed to prove Bridges' "membership in the Communist Party by clear and convincing evidence." "How's that for a birthday present, Harry?" shouted a longshoreman. Grinned Bridges: "That's great...