Word: rootered
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...Meanwhile, some sort of standardization for exhibitors is a problem. Exhibitors were invited to Manhattan last week to meet the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers to hash the matter over. At the moment, each system has its enthusiastic rooter. Fox's Spyros P. Kouras, flying off to scout the 3-D foreign field, predicted that by next October some 2,500 theaters across the country will be equipped for Cinemascope...
...grew in age, however, his temperament began to change. In his first year as Yale mascot, he grew from a friendly canine to a staunch Eli rooter who would stop at nothing to get at players and cheerleaders from opposing teams. At first everyone thought Dan amusing when he snapped, bit, and clawed at Tiger and Puritan alike. But then came a serious turn. Dan suddenly discovered that he didn't really like the sons of Eli so much as he had thought...
Typical of all the contests, Puerto Rico's troubles began when a convention of six hundred odd selected one slate of delegates and a rump of forty-eight selected another. The legal delegation included one Eisenhower rooter, Mr. Julia, and one for Stassen, Mr. Romani, while the rump electees included two men for Taft. Common to both groups was a supposedly neutral delegate...
...partisan baseball bugs will be able to place a lot of bets this morning, with the Giants and Sal Maglie (23-6) favored to take the third National League playoff game. But none of the bets will be taken by Harvard's leading baseball authority and most rabid rooter, Coach Stuffy McInnis...
...cross-country concert tour, Metropolitan Soprano Helen Traubel turned up in Burbank, Calif, to check on one of her sideline investments: the hapless St. Louis Browns, midway through their spring tune-up. Part-Owner Traubel, in good voice, gave a pep talk to the players, then retired to a rooter's bench to watch her team win (6 to 5) an exhibition game with the Cleveland Indians...