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...billed as "The Match' of the Half-Century." Hungary's soccer squad, Olympic champions, came to England with a record of 25 international games without a defeat. The British, celebrating the goth anniversary of a game they had exported all over the world, also had quite a record: no invading team had ever won an international match on English soil...
This week's cover story on Mickey Mantle of the New York Yankees marks the goth time that a figure in the sports world has been on the cover of TIME. The first athlete to appear was a hard-jawed, 28-year-old mauler by the name of Jack Dempsey. That was in September 1923. Two weeks later, he fought his famous match with Luis Angel ("Bull") Firpo, at which boxing fans paid a total of $1,888,822 to see Dempsey retain his world heavyweight championship in 3 minutes, 57 seconds of furious fighting...
...Yalie's antumnal migrations to other campuses in the wake of the football team have a disadvantageous effect. Like a primitive Goth who has been sightseeing in Rome, the Yalie becomes dissatisfied with the inadequacies of his own culture...
...Last week, chipper and tanned, Old Man Stagg spryly demonstrated a few football plays on the thick, velvety turf of Chicago's Stagg Field. He was there as guest of honor at a celebration of his goth birthday (actual date...
Ancient Rome had a population of 1,000,000. In 546 Totila the Goth sacked the capital; for 40 days it had no inhabitants at all, according to the historian Gregorovius. Almost a millennium later, in 1527 after plunder and rapine by Charles V's troops, Rome's population stood at 32,000. During the past century Rome grew from 201,161 in 1862 to 1,173,034 in 1936. Last week the capital's first census in 15 years found that it is growing almost as fast as Los Angeles, now has 1,600,011 people...