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...American tradition seems to demand that in the fall football shall be the only sport spoken of, but on the wired in acres across the street from Soldiers Field a half a hundred Crimson-clad athletes spend their autumn afternoons playing international football, or soccer as most call...
...always demanded and the committee had seized, were spread as evidence. After one dinner for Elliott, Johnny had meticulously jotted down the item of $200 as "presents for four girls." There was another cryptic notation of $50 for "girls at hotel (late)." From the summer of 1943 to the autumn of 1945, Meyer figured, he had spent the whopping sum of $5,083.79 on fun & games for Elliott Roosevelt and his friends. In December 1944, Elliott married Faye...
Nine hundred civilian Freshmen will make up the autumn contingent of the class of '51, he disclosed. "With about three and a half candidates competing for every vacancy, the selection was a good bit tougher than usual," Gummere declared...
...Manhattan milliners, after years of trying to make the American woman look like a helicopter after a crash landing, finally did it. Observers at autumn style shows came away feeling top-heavy. Some hats looked like dishpans swathed in varicolored mosquito netting, others like sour-milk hotcakes. Most of them were as big as barrelheads. It seemed almost certain that by spring U.S. women would have neck muscles like Jim Londos...
Even the pessimists did not expect the shortage to get anywhere near as bad as it was in wartime. But they did expect it to bring higher oil prices. And next autumn, when the heavy drain begins on fuel oil storage, some local tanks...