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...Mary's Press Agent Tom Foudy boasted that 500,000 people would watch the team this year. St. Mary's rooters boasted two special trains for their annual two-week $54,000 transcontinental junket. St. Mary's players boasted scarlet shirts with white shoulders, decorated with green harps, blood-red headguards, emerald-green silk trousers, royal-blue stockings. Fordham had nothing to boast about except one point-result of Andy Palau's place kick after a touchdown on his pass to Jacunski-that outweighed two St. Mary's field goals...
...usual, professional art critics whose annual junket to Pittsburgh is a sort of esthetic American Legion Convention, turned up their noses at the choices of the prize jury. In 1934 they objected to Peter Blume's surrealist South of Scranton as the work of a decadent school of non- sense. In 1935 Spanish Hipólito Hidalgo de Caviedes' prizewinning picture of a young Negro couple on a sofa was held inferior to dozens of U. S. paintings of the same type. Of Leon Kroll's Road From the Cove Critic Henry McBride wrote...
...offered by an alert railroad is an "Off the Beaten Path" junket with excursionists riding in the locomotive cab or perched on miniature bleachers built into the tender...
...Johannesburg the big crowd, waiting tensely for the end of the 6,150-mi. junket, burst into cheers as the Scott-Guthrie plane slid in for a landing, winner of the $20,000 first prize in 52 hr., 56 min. The celebration was suddenly stilled by the news that Pilot Findlay and one of his companions had been killed in a crash at Abercorn, near Lake Tanganyika. Capitalist Schlesinger announced that he would donate the rest of the prize money ($30,000) to the dependents of the two dead airmen...
...unprecedented demand for seats that made it seem probable that all games in this year's World Series would be sellouts, the one that got most attention last week came from the White House. First Presidential junket to the World Series since Herbert Hoover was roundly booed at Philadelphia in 1931 was scheduled for the third game, the first in the Yankee Stadium...