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Next morning he bounced out of bed for an early breakfast in Kearney. He hustled on to examine an irrigation project en route to Holdredge, addressed a businessmen's lunch, talked to a bumper crowd of 7,500 at the University of Nebraska's Coliseum...
Crazy-Quilt. It was also a crazy-quilt of people in a dilemma. At Evansville, Ind. last week, a handful of anti-Wallace C.I.O. auto workers picketed the Memorial Coliseum where he was to appear. Some 2,000 of Evansville's population joined in. Hoodlums stormed the Coliseum's doors, slugged Wallace Campaign Manager C. B. ("Beany") Baldwin and two other Wallace coworkers. Police dispersed the mob. Cried Henry: "The blame for this violence lies with the press for giving misinformation." Inside the hall an uneasy audience of 500, most of them well dressed, settled back to listen...
Leonard Roach, a Los Angeles County supervisor, has been touting his county's vast (105,000-seat) Coliseum as a big-league park. But he has neglected to point out that the right-field seats would be only 290 feet away from the plate, and balls hit to left field would have to be mailed in. Also, parking space is precious, some lots charging up to $5 a car. And concessions in the Coliseum, without which no club could exist, are already leased...
...Angeles Memorial Coliseum had the biggest crowd...
...Angeles outdid the earlier receptions. But a crowd fully as big as Boston's turned out to cheer California's Patton and Co-Hero Jimmy Doolittle. That night, 100,000 crowded into the Coliseum for a mammoth reception engineered by Hollywood Producer Mervyn...