Word: madisons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Delany runs, the spike-scarred boards of Madison Square Garden's track curl out eleven uneventful laps to the mile. Other athletes strain to feel the thin snap of the finish tape; Delany beats them to it with deceptive ease. In the mile run at the Knights of Columbus games last week, the pale, frail-looking Irishman loafed through the first 8½ laps as if lazing along the banks of the Liffey back home. He stayed an easy third; suddenly, almost imperceptibly, he moved to second, then, with a lap and a half...
...I.B.C. controls most of the country's biggest fight arenas from Manhattan's Madison Square Garden to the Chicago Stadium and Detroit's Olympia Arena. It holds exclusive contracts with almost all the top fighters. During the period of the Government's complaint (1949-53), it controlled the promotion of 36 of the 44 U.S.-staged championship fights. In their insistence on cornering championship bouts, concluded Judge Ryan, Norris and his pals "engaged in a combination and conspiracy . . . and were parties to contracts, agreements, arrangements and understandings in unreasonable restraint of [interstate commerce...
Three R's. Telecasting from an old roller-skating rink, WGBH-TV takes full advantage of its freedom from sponsors and their demands. Its leisurely, professorial pace and erratic showmanship would send Madison Avenue professionals out for triple martinis. Scheduled shows often run overtime. Between programs, instead of the hard sell there is often soft classical music...
...again. That the staid St. Bernardino of Siena should be the patron saint of advertisers [Feb. 4] and bandied about by the mass-media Babbitts is unforgivable. Our blatant and vulgar advertising is the one crack in our picture window that anti-Americans point to as our literary output. Madison Avenue's grey flannel mouthings could never wear Bernardino's hair shirt...
Junior Pete Reider finally smashed the University two-mile record which had eluded him for the past two years. By running a sparkling 9:21.8 in the IC4A meet at Madison Square Garden Saturday, Reider knocked 7.2 seconds off F. D. Murphy's record...