Word: gymnasiums
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...Texas (pop. 11,700) more than 4,000 delegates to the interdenominational Tri-State (Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas) Singing Convention were still challenging the devil's priority. In spite of heavy rains, sticky red clay roads and a football game across the way, they crowded into the white frame gymnasium at Stephen Austin State Teachers College. There for two straight days they kept the rafters ringing with gospel jazz, gospel hillbilly ballads, gospel blues...
This pint-sized merry-making is reduced even further for freshmen and sophomores, who aren't mature enough to join a club. For them there is nothing but a gymnasium dance and an intown movie. Last week underclassmen queued up for tickets to a "Prince-Tiger" dance: the office opened at 2 p.m.; the only people who got tickets had been in line since before noon...
...toss footballs on the campus and tack Esquire calendars to his walls, because the College counts this as part of school spirit. But he can't take a date anywhere except gymnasium dances and juke-box joints until the middle of his sophomore year, when he gets into one of the seventeen eating and social clubs. Unless he's in the unlucky ten percent...
...cheerleaders, who have been developing their tumbling skills for the past three weeks in a private gymnasium, have been forbidden to put on a demonstration between the halves on Saturday, because it "detractsz from the band." They will show off their new routines at the quarters...
...sleepy village of Manchester, Vt. (pop. 325) sat up and took notice last week. White-haired ladies from porch rockers of the Equinox House, straw-hatted farmers, Green Mountain tourists and artists by the station-wagonload jammed into the red brick gymnasium where the Southern Vermont Artists' Association was staging its 20th annual show...