Word: circuits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chief weapon of the manufacturers is a little plumbline which hangs inside a small circle of wire; when the weight at the end is deflected enough to touch the circle it completes a circuit, and a polite little sign on the scoreboard says "Tilt," or in the case of one popular machine using a Western theme, "Yipee Tilt!" Even this device is often insufficient however. A veteran "fifty-mission-man" can hit the machine vertically and bounce a ball back up the playing board without tilting it. Another technique, still more refined, is bodily lifting the whole machine and propping...
Because of such players as George Mikan, pro basketball is gradually taking on a big-league glow. The Basketball Association of America is a twelve-city circuit, playing to enthusiastic crowds from Manhattan's Madison Square Garden to St. Louis' Arena. Its stars get paid as much as $17,500 for a 20-week season. Like Mikan, most of the big-name basketball pros come out of topflight collegiate ranks...
Beer & Beef. Thirteen years ago, burly Frankie Laine was singing for beer and beef at the Stamford (Conn.) German Club; for half a dozen years before, he had been an unnoticed mediocrity on the soggy-ballad circuit around Chicago nightclubs. He had given up singing for selling cars, songwriting (It Only Happens Once) and, during the war, defense work. But, says Frankie, the son of a Chicago barber, "I couldn't stay away from it long . . . I hadda get up in front and sing." In 1946, he made only $2,000 at it. Then things began to happen...
...leagues have been formed on the basis of team records in the pre-examination round-robin competition. The top seven teams are in the National League, while the eight weaker squads compose the American League. Massachusetts Hall has dropped out of the upper circuit because of a shortage of players. All games will be played either at the Indoor Athletic Building or at Homenway Gymnasium...
...Valpey yesterday announced the opening of the 1949 football season. The well-fed varsity football coach and his staff, having covered about 400 alumni and high school diners since the Yale game, are new turning down bids from the creamed-chicken circuit in order to concentrate on next fall...