Word: coliseums
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...cars." Lined up behind an outsized mock-up of a dashboard along with four other motormakers last week (see cut), Ford President Ford and G.M.'s Curtice had good reason to toot their horns. As they opened the first postwar National Automobile Show in Manhattan's Coliseum, 8,000 potential customers lined up outside. In the first two days, 70,000 plunked down 90? apiece just to see the racy goods Detroit was ready to sell them...
...couldn't spare the time, but he also couldn't resist the opportunity to see a famous artist work close up," said Murray. Posing for Artist Hurd in a Beverly Hills Hotel bungalow, O'Brien excused himself one afternoon and went out to the Los Angeles Coliseum long enough to smash his own world's record by putting the shot 63 feet 2 inches...
...limit and sped past the 800-meter finish only a tenth of a second slower than his Olympic record of 1952. But he could not win. He was fifth. Whitfield's plight was typical of last week's two-day Olympic trials at Los Angeles' Memorial Coliseum...
...President took the speech he wanted to make to the kind of youthful audience he sought: Baylor University's commencement for 665 graduates, where Ike was to receive a doctorate of laws.* Before a crowd of 11,500 jam-packed into Waco's Heart o' Texas Coliseum, he spoke for half an hour, produced few headlines for 1956 but laid down the broad principles "for a better world...
Even though he figured to be beaten, lean Jim Bailey, 26, spent a nervous night, and scarcely slept. Calm and confident, Landy, 26, took it easy, loafed through a set of practice miles early on the morning of the race. He got to Los Angeles' vast Coliseum ready to go. Bailey was bushed, and, it seemed, past caring. He stared moodily at the crowd, had a tough time working up to racing pitch...