Word: pots
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cities, the familiar red-front A & P store is the real melting pot of the community, patronized by the boss's wife and the baker's daughter, the priest and the policeman. To foreigners A & P's vast supermarkets are among the wonders of the age; to the U.S. middle class, they are one of the direct roads to solvency. "Going to the A & P" is almost an American tribal rite...
...Boston, Syracuse over Boston University, 13-7, for first-time possession of the spanking-new Old Bean Pot (TIME...
...first step was to find a bean pot with great potential aura. After a search through local potteries, he found a dandy: a 200-qt., 100-lb., 50-year-old affair. Then one day last week he loaded his bean pot into a Yellow Cab, had himself driven to a deserted highway excavation, eased the pot down into the mud ("to dirty it up a bit"), and hauled it back to his office. Next day, Boston papers received a special B.U. release: "A gigantic bean pot . . . was unearthed on the banks of the Charles River yesterday . . . Prof. Albert Morris . . . expert...
Except for the Boston Record, which went along to the extent of running a picture of the pot, the Boston press pretty much ignored the big find. But Publicityman Wood was not through. Later, he mailed out another release: the president of the Syracuse University Alumni Club of Boston had claimed the pot on the grounds that it was "very likely" made in Syracuse. Final announcement (due some time before the B.U.-Syracuse game next week): the two schools have agreed to play for the bean pot from here...
Publicityman Wood didn't seem to mind that a lot of people knew about his stunt. He was confident that, within a few years, nobody would care very much how the old Bean Pot Tradition did start...