Word: booths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...kickoff time, 75,000 individuals will jam the huge Bowl for the first "formal" New Haven Harvard-Yale Game since before the War. Together with their colored feathers and old fur coats, they bring traditions and memories of Mahan and Heffelfinger, Booth and Wood, Frank and Struck--great names of ten or thirty years ago. But more than that, they come anxious to bask in the spirit and participate in the festivities of the occasion; to join with the two teams in writing a new chapter in the unique legend of this...
...embroglios, probably none has equalled the drama of those from 1929 to 1931 when one of Harvard's all time greats, Barry Wood, played opposite the Eli's "little boy Blue", crafty placekicking specialist Albie Booth. In 1929, both met for the first time as sophomores on the turf of the Bowl. Booth missed a field goal that might have turned the tide, and Harvard walked off victorious, 10 to 6. Sportscribe Arthur Daley has called the game one of football's classics...
...Booth had his revenge two years later, when he and Wood met again, both as captains of their teams. Undefeated till that game, the Crimson took the opening kickoff to the Bulldog's seven yard line but falled to score. For three grueling periods the teams battled on even terms until in the closing minutes Booth dropkicked a field goal that meant victory for the Elis...
...Unfinished Dance (M-G-M). Little Margaret O'Brien, a "sparrow" (apprentice) in a ballet theater, has a schoolgirl crush on Cyd Charisse, a promising ballerina. Margaret hates Karin Booth, the premiere danseuse, because she thinks Cyd should have the top ballerina's job. If only something awful would happen to Karin...
...Vivian, Thomas S. Langner '45, Thomas C. Fischer '46, John D. Kendall '45, Edward Prince '49, and James D. Dodge '44. Other contemporary Dunces are John B. Lister '50, James M. Robbins '48, John W. Wade '49, J. Peter Winkelstein '49, Thomas M. A. Schmid '49, Harry F. Booth '48, and Arthur S. Biddle...