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...almost any Saturday during the season U. S. football fans can see a game as exciting as the Rose Bowl game. But California boosters have built Pasadena's Tournament of Roses sideshow into the country's No. 1 sport extravaganza. From Thanksgiving to New Year's Day the majority of U. S. citizens, from Polish mill hands to Park Avenue dandies, babble Rose Bowl, Rose Bowl, Rose Bowl. This year's babble was noisier than usual. For this year's game was one that U. S. fans have been waiting for for over a year...
...witness this setup, 90,000 fans squeezed into Pasadena's famed saucer last week and millions more the world over listened at their radios. Tennessee lacked Southern California's bonecrushing manpower. It had no giants like Smith and Sohn (2201b. guards), but its boys were fast, cagey and tough. Neyland, a hardbitten perfectionist, had made them the best-drilled blockers in the land...
...Carnegie Institution of Washington is the biggest scientific empire under one management in the world.* Its expeditions study archeology in Mexico, terrestrial magnetism in Peru, anthropology in Java; but its eight major provinces lie in the U. S.: Mount Wilson Observatory, perched on a mountain top near Pasadena; its division of plant biology, with headquarters at Stanford University; its department of embryology at Baltimore; its department of genetics at Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island; its geophysical laboratory and its department of terrestrial magnetism at Washington; its nutrition laboratory in Boston; its division of historical research, whose headquarters are in Washington...
...Knoxville last week undefeated, untied Tennessee wound up its football season by beating Auburn, 7-to-0, for its tenth shutout of the year. Six hours later, Coach Bob Neyland received the phone call he has waited for for 13 years: from Pasadena, inviting his team to play in the Rose Bowl on New Year's Day. Tennessee's opponent: Howard Jones's undefeated Southern California powerhouse (often referred to this season as "three of the four best teams on the West Coast"), which was held to a 0-to-0 tie by gallant...
RICHARD C. SCOTT Pasadena, Calif...