Word: game
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Proceeds from weekly bingo games, held in church basements and hired halls, have helped pay for parochial schools, for school buses, for Catholic charities. Republican Governor Alfred Driscoll, up for reelection, was on record against the game. Said Driscoll: "Some people characterize bingo as a harmless pastime. I say it is gambling, and has been known to be run at times by gangsters and racketeers." His Democratic opponent, Elmer H. Wene, who is backed by Frank Hague, the dethroned boss of Jersey City, said he saw nothing wrong with bingo...
Last week, with a Confederate flag waving, Frnka's unbeaten, untied heroes went north to avenge a 59-6 beating by Notre Dame two years ago. In the pre-game workout, they looked fully up to their advance billing and their record-big, fast, alert and confident. But within ten minutes after the game had begun, Tulane's dream of a national championship had been irretrievably shattered...
...third period, with Notre Dame leading 33-0 and Leahy's second-string backs in the game, Tulane recovered its equilibrium long enough to score a touchdown. Leahy sent his triggermen in again for another quick punch, ended the game with his second-and third-stringers in easy command. Final score: Notre Dame 46, Tulane 7. Tulane had committed the grievous sin of looking too strong too far ahead of kickoff time. With all of' its opponents pointing as usual for Notre Dame, it looked a bit as though South Bend had broken its customary policy for once...
After ripping off tackle on a 53-yard sprint a fortnight ago, Yale's Levi Jackson modestly confessed he couldn't have done it "if Columbia's right tackle had not been blocked out of the play." Last week, in studying the movies of the game (which Yale won 33-7), Columbia Coach Lou Little found out that Halfback Jackson was not quite right. The real explanation: in one of Columbia's modern, high-'frequency substitutions, only ten Columbia men had trotted on to the field. Columbia's right tackle, when Jackson got away...
...steadily dimmer view of Rank's future as a movie magnate. His producing enterprises have been in trouble before (in 1946 they lost ?474,777), but those were the hopeful days when Rank was talking of making 60 pictures a year and beating Hollywood at its own game of mass production. How badly he had flopped was shown by the prices of stocks in his two top companies, both at their eight-year lows. Gaumont-British common, which hit a high of 18s. last year, was down to 4s. 6d. last week. Odeon Theatres common, which had been...