Word: elevens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Apropos of your "pro football in the Stadium" editorial, the CRIMSON may be reassured that the HAA does not charge a flat ($4-$5) tariff to watch the local eleven. There is a General Admission rate of $2 to $2.50, depending on the contest, for all but the Yale game...
With the eyes of the world's millions following him as never before, Dwight Eisenhower flies out of Andrews Air Force Base, Md. in his VIP-styled Boeing 707 this week on his historic mission to eleven nations in Western Europe, South Asia and North Africa. First stop, for refueling: Goose Bay, Labrador. Second stop: Rome. Before he completes the circuit and touches home again, he will travel for 19 days through 19,600 miles by plane, 270 by helicopter, 1,500 by ship, 1,000 by train and car on the longest overseas trip ever made...
...first eleven months no "pusher" approached him. "The record-company guys," he told a TIME correspondent in Detroit last week, "went to the bigger men here. I didn't care because I knew when I was Number One they would come to me. First a guy would ask me to coffee, but I was sardonic and I would say, 'Wait until I get to the dinner stage. huh?' When I was finally asked out to dinner, I knew I was Number One. Payola comes to the top disk jockeys, so isn't this the greatest compliment...
With both CBS and ABC against his plan, Adman Larmon conceded that it had little chance of success. NBC bought a full-page ad in eleven U.S. newspapers to say that the network "assumes complete responsibility to the public for what appears on NBC." But the ad also insisted that "TV wins a daily vote of confidence in 45 million American homes," and rejected "grandiose schemes for television's Utopia." Unfortunately, NBC has so far brought forth no notable schemes, Utopian or otherwise, seems to be spending much of its brainpower working over the pity...
Liveliest art museum in the South is the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts at Richmond, and liveliest museum director is the man who runs it, Leslie Cheek Jr., 51. Since taking over eleven years ago, Yale-trained Director Cheek has doubled his museum space, added a theater for nightly concerts, lectures, classic old movies, and local repertory-company performances. He organized an art loan program to Virginia's main towns, built the world's first "artmobile" (an air-conditioned trailer truck that houses a miniature exhibition on wheels) to bring art to the hinterlands...