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Every Saturday, the "greatest football games in the East" flick across the stage of the Pilgrim Theatre. For eighty-five cents you can take in the whole proceedings...
Last weekend, for instance, Theatre Network Television, which promotes the broadcasts, sent over the Princeton-Navy game. The management of the Pilgrim apparently didn't have much better luck than local proprietors of stadiums in drawing a crowd for a ball game. Most of the audience, which sat sullenly in its seats nibbling popcorn, seemed to favor Princeton. A good many were Nassau expatriates doing graduate work here. Sailors attended in scattered clumps and watched the proceedings with mixed feelings. Service pride demanded that they cheer for their future officers most of the time but when things went awry...
According to athletic directors all over the country, TV is wrecking football by keeping crowds away from the playing fields. After watching the show at the Pilgrim, I think they should start looking for some less superficial reason. Watching players maul each other on a screen isn't the same as sitting in the stands. All the pageantry was out of it--the girls in plaid dresses, the band uniforms, the colors, the requests for shots from the bottle. There was little cheering and such as there was lacked gusto. I've never gone along with those who consider football...
...appalled at the bad manners of the students of Auburn (N.Y.) Theological Seminary that she wrote a manual on proper decorum, covering such subjects as How to Say Hello, How to Say Goodbye, How to Manage a Cup of Tea. Young Foster, as the family called him, read Pilgrim's Progress and Paradise Lost, became a serious stripling who could blandly paraphrase William James to a sobbing nine-year-old sister ("If you cry you will feel bad, and if you feel bad you will cry"). He could swim the 2½ miles across Henderson Bay, and when...
...Mecca, this was a far more revolutionary proposal than it would have been elsewhere in the pagan world. Polytheism was at the heart of Mecca's economic and social life. If Mecca took a strong stand for a particular god, Mecca's pilgrim business would die. The practical choice for Mecca was polytheism or, if it elected monotheism, the political conquest of all Arabia and the imposition of its one-God religion. To a man, the Mec can leaders rejected Mohammed. But he persisted even after he gradually came to realize that his spiritual kingdom did not have...