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...getting so cold on the upper reaches of the Mississippi that the University of Minnesota football team decided on a year-end vacation. Pasadena's Rose Bowl seemed just the place. "We've talked it all over," said Coach Murray Warmath, "and if we're good enough, we'd like to go." The unbeaten Gophers figured to be more than good enough to beat Iowa's corn-fed Hawkeyes and earn the trip to California...
California-Bred. Now it was proper for Iowa to think of Pasadena. But when word came in from the West, the Hawkeyes learned that they faced no vacation. Out in San Francisco, Oregon State's Beavers skinned past Stanford's favored Indians, 20-19. Only last month, the Beavers had almost chewed up Iowa before losing a close one, 14-13. Last week they demonstrated that they had learned how to come from behind in the clutch...
...pitch-and-run pass play of their own leading to a touchdown and, midway in the last quarter, went all the way on another pass. The extra point made the difference. Come New Year's Day, barring the absolutely unexpected, Iowa will find Oregon State waiting in Pasadena for the first seasonal rematch in Rose Bowl history...
Ridd first became interested in the work while demonstrating hooked rugs in a Pasadena department store in an effort to promote sales of yarn. A customer suggested that he try to make a Persian rug. With no instruction, he assembled a loom from four sticks and a quantity of seine twine. A rug-maker showed him how to tie a Persian knot and Ridd began his project...
...white patch on a white patch, might be said to express the idea of purity except that it is too thin and bare to carry the weight of the idea; most people think it must be a joke. Wight's own paintings on show this week at the Pasadena Art Museum, get no chuckles from visitors. His language is instantly recognizable symbolism, and his subject is death...