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...disclosures not only smudged the league's credibility but helped obscure signs of genuine fan support. Football enthusiasts in Birmingham, Ala., who tried unsuccessfully for eight years to land an N.F.L. franchise, have braved bad weather to greet the Birmingham Americans with an average paid attendance of 43,000. The W.F.L. has also drawn respectable TV ratings (averaging about 8 million viewers per week) with its midweek evening games on TVS, an independent television network...
NINA M. CORNELL Huntsville, Ala...
...Mobile, Ala...
...began six-year terms on the University's senior governing board on Commencement day last month. The new members of the 30-member board are: Andrew Heiskell of New York City, a 1936 graduate of the Business School and president of Time, Inc.; John U. Monro '34 of Birmingham, Ala., former dean of students here and now director of freshman students at Miles College; Elliot L. Richardson '41 of McLean, Va., former U.S. attorney general and secretary of Defense; Lloyd H. Smith, Jr. of San Francisco, a 1948 graduate of the Medical School and chairman of the department of medicine...
...John Sparkman (D-Ala.), the Democratic vice-presidential candidate...