Word: louisiana
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sportswriters all over the U. S. ridiculed Washington's choice on two counts. Pitt this year has been beaten by Duquesne, tied by Fordham. Louisiana State and Alabama, each with one tie and no defeats, both have better records. Asked to play in New Orleans' Sugar Bowl game on New Year's Day, Louisiana State promptly accepted, will play against undefeated" and untied Santa Clara-which still has to play Texas Christian this week-as its opponent for the "championship of the U. S." Heisman Memorial Trophy, awarded annually to the country's "outstanding football player...
Ward's sends out no expeditions. It has lists of 11,000 collectors to whom it writes for needed items. Free-lancers send in material on speculation. Earthworms one foot long-for classroom dissection-come from Michigan, huge bullfrogs from Louisiana. France ships bushels of its edible snails, which are bigger than U. S. snails and therefore better for anatomical instruction. Rattlesnakes from Texas sometimes arrive alive, are slain on the premises. Cats are bought in the neighborhood, drowned and embalmed, but Ward's does not advertise for cats lest owners of lost pets take umbrage. Few years...
...Baton Rouge went WPAdministrator Hopkins, Louisiana's Governor Leche, a full quota of Southern political and sporting notables to help dedicate a WPA addition to Louisiana State University's football stadium. Now the biggest in the South, L. S. U.'s stadium has seats for 50,000, dressing rooms, athletic offices and a dormitory for 100 students built into...
...great holiday crowd outside this stadium, an Alabamian tried to find a purchaser for his pretty daughter's illegitimate baby, was jailed for his pains. Inside the stadium, encouraged by their lively 200-piece band, their live tiger mascot, Louisiana State's football team-which had already earned its lavish surroundings by a season of eight victories and one tie and its second consecutive Southeastern Conference title-celebrated the occasion, 33-to-0 against Tulane...
...Louisiana judge, a juvenile officer and a welfare worker decided that Mrs. Erne Crawford was fit to mother the baby boy whom she first swore a brindle dog dropped at her Louisiana cabin door, then admitted she had borne guiltily back of her woodshed (TIME, Nov. 23). Louis Crawford, her pious, abstinent, pale-eyed cuckold, after a good tussle with the Holy Spirit, last week pulled in his horns, took Effie and their two young sons across Lake Pontchartrain to New Orleans' Charity Hospital to claim the babe...