Word: pavilions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...West has also dabbled in smellies, but seems to have outgrown them before they ever had a chance. Scented motion pictures were tried at the Swiss Pavilion of the New York World's Fair, one film aired 37 different smells in 35 minutes. One of the technicians responsible, a Swiss named Hans Laube, stayed on in the U.S., but in 1946 disgustedly left for Europe since, he said, there were no takers for the smellies in America...
...downtown Seattle, tickets for the big game were selling for $40 on the black market. When 12,000 people jammed into the University of Washington's Pavilion ast week, they expected to see fireworks. It was the big show of 1949's basketball season, the N.C.A.A. tournament final beween powerful Kentucky and the aggravating, defense-minded Oklahoma Aggies. What the crowd saw was a duel in coaching strategy with overtones of a championship chess match. Kentucky, which specializes in brisk, aggressive basketball, deliberately slowed down to the Aggies' own "slow death" pace. So artis-ically didx Kentucky...
...home pitch of London's swank Marylebone Cricket Club. Last week, as Freddie fought his fight in Johannesburg, Denis-in Capetown to play with the M.C.C. team against South Africa's Western Province Cricket Club-invited him to drop in at Newland's Cricket Pavilion...
...when Freddie presented himself with a couple of friends at the club's dressing room door, he was sternly rebuffed. "You can't come in," snarled an attendant. Freddie was nonplussed. While he and Denis held their reunion at the foot of the steps of the pavilion entrance, George Mann, M.C.C. captain, protested vigorously to the South Africans. Club Secretary Walter Mars was adamant. "I have no objection to professional boxers as a class," he said later, "but I had only to take one look at Mills and his friends to realize they are not the type...
Coach Tom Bolles, winding up crew activity for the fall, started his five eights just below Cottage Farm Bridge, with the Leavitt unit pulling ahead and leading all the way to the finish opposite MIT's sailing pavilion. Stroke George Lodge held the winners' beat at about...