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Dates: during 1930-1939
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By its second birthday Pins and Needles had played 865 Broadway performances; longest previous run for a musical show was Irene, with 670. Every girl in the cast now sports a fur coat with a union label.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Musical in Manhattan: Dec. 4, 1939 | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

> At Ann Arbor, 80,000 Midwest rooters turned out for the 36th annual Michigan-Ohio State game, watched Tom Harmon & Co., with the aid of Old 83 ("a sort of psychic double cross" play originally concocted by Fielding Yost for his point-a-minute teams), outsmart Ohio State's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Crisis | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

> At Philadelphia, 15,000 Negro fans gathered for the annual Lincoln-Howard game, Harvard-Yale game of Negro football (started in 1894). In recent years, Lincoln and Howard, once the Big Two of colored collegiate athletics, have been overshadowed by Johnny-come-lately Negro football teams, but their annual set...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Crisis | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

Last week the fans near went past themselves. They cheered lustily for Ralph Oves, Lincoln's towering center, who stands out in the line like a moon on a dark night (Oves is the only white player in Negro football). They set off firecrackers, one of which, mistaken for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Crisis | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

The West has its Rose Bowl, the South its Sugar Bowl, Orange Bowl, Cotton Bowl, Sun Bowl (all played on New Year's Day). Last week Alaska jumped into the bowl business, 38 days early. Juneau citizens staged a Gold Bowl game between the Alaska Sourdoughs and the Baranof...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Gold Bowl | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

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