Word: gate
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Closing time for the little cashier's gate will be at 2 p.m. at the Harvard Trust and 5 p.m. in Lehman Hall...
...good segment of the sports world is having itself quite a panic over the television "menace": as more and more promoters and arena owners cry out that the new entertainment medium is grabbing too many dollars out of gate receipts. What throws the whole thing into confusion, however, is the fact that there are powerful voices on the other side who are booming television as the greatest thing that's happened to sports since the coming of radio...
There are plenty of television bans in other sports, but most of today's trouble is coming from boxing. Until the second Joe Louis-Jersey Joe Walcott championship, the promoters were quite chummy with the television people, but in that championship bout the gate took a big beating when the fans en masse decided it was easier and cheaper to get a ringside view of the fight in their own living rooms or in the taverns for the price of a few beers...
That these latter events are still selling television rights indicates more than the simple fact that some teams haven't yet made up their minds on the television problem. It points up the cogent consideration that where television doesn't cut substantially into the gate there is quite a bit to be said for having...
...This policy, if put into effect, would mean that the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, which now pays the HAA deficits, would be relieved of that burden; the University, either through this Faculty or some other agency, would provide at least part of the funds now raised through gate receipts, on a regular, instead of a deficit spending, basis...