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...matches were finally held. Only 90 people turned out to watch the first day of a national skating championship. Last fall's football (soccer) championship drew only a handful. Oslo's Bislet Stadium was deserted when track & field championships were held last summer...
George Price (who drew that series of levitated men, floating up near the ceiling) has published a new book of cartoons. His latest collection is called Who's In Charge Here? (Farrar & Rinehart; $2.50), and its first printing of 28,500 was already sold out last week. The work includes no supernaturally levitated figures, but in one drawing an echelon of six flying fish completes a bank-turn above their tank in a pet store. The proprietor explains to a customer: "We don't sell them singly, Madam. It breaks up the formation...
...Giants-Redskins playoff drew 42,800 and pushed 1943 pro football attendance to well above 1,100,000, with the championship game still to be played. Only 1941 (with 13 more games) had a higher total. Average attendance this year was 27,000-a quarter more than...
Draft? But to draft F.D.R. looked like an increasingly tough job. The President, tireless Drew Pearson informed the U.S., might want to be exempted on grounds of his indispensability for world peace. "Whether he would be president of a League of United Nations, or American representative on it, is a detail." The main thing, Pearson thought he knew, was that Mr. Roosevelt's next personal Four-Year Plan reached beyond the national scene...
...Democratic Dallas, Willkie drew nearly five times the crowd that Vice President Wallace had five weeks before...