Word: bowle
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Empty Bowl. Whatever the final outcome, NBC's Sunday evening position looked bleak, except for Fred Allen. At one time, NBC strategists had thought of filling in with a series of crime-mystery plays. But that bet was automatically ruled out by NBC's own ban on mystery shows before 9:30 p.m. (presumably the hour when all little pitchers are in bed). Crumped one disgruntled executive: "We've made our policy. Now we have to sleep with...
...also made the belated discovery that fast-moving CBS had routed them on another front. The Rose Bowl game will be aired this year by CBS. Other networks had grabbed up the remaining big bowl games. At week's end, NBC Sports Director Bill Stern was hastily dickering for the rights to broadcast the last remaining games of any consequence (Jacksonville's 'Gator Bowl and San Diego's Harbor Bowl). For the first time in 21 years, it looked as if a badly battle-scarred NBC might have no bowl broadcast...
...Club bowling started Tuesday. The girls knock down the tenpins at the Bowl-Away in the Square every Tuesday and Thursday at 2 p.m. Nina Emerson '50 is in charge of bowling...
...drinking too much ("No man likes a prude, but it's far worse to have a girl who laps up everything in sight"), and other forms of helplessness ("Don't depend on your host to look up trains"). They are also advised that the paint on Yale Bowl benches rubs off, and that "if you ever want to give a [West Point] plebe anything, bring him food, for he is always hungry...
Even though California had finished the season undefeated, it still wasn't in the Rose Bowl yet, for Oregon too was unbeaten in Pacific Coast Conference games. That left the Rose Bowl choice to the vote of all ten Pacific Coast Conference schools. This week they picked California. Its opponent: Northwestern, which is second best in the Big Nine. Under the strange terms of the Rose Bowl contract, Big Nine Champion Michigan, which played in the last Rose Bowl (and beat Southern California, 49-0), is ineligible to return for two more years...