Word: roses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Orange Bowl. In Miami, Florida's florid answer to the Rose Bowl drew only 12,000 who were astonished at Catholic University players' reluctance to pose with a reception committee of blondes, were further astonished when the same players scored three touchdowns to top Mississippi's fourth quarter rally...
East v. West. In San Francisco's annual braggadocian gesture toward the Rose Bowl, East, with eight Midwesterners including five All-Americas on its starting lineup, smothered West...
Texas' rough-&-ready Governor James V. Allred was leaving the Pasadena, Calif., Rose Bowl (see p. 43) when he received a telegram from Secretary of the Texas Senate Robert ("Bob") Barker stating that Acting Governor Wilbourne Collie had called a special session of the legislature. Indignant, Governor Allred summoned a police escort to get through the football crowd, fumed when traffic blocked his car, clambered on the back of a motorcycle, fumed when traffic blocked the motorcycle, hopped off, hurried on foot to his hotel. While packing to board a plane, he learned that the Secretary of the Senate...
...reaction to the death of AAA this week was confusion (see p. 12). Food and tobacco stocks went up with the outlawing of processing taxes and prospective refunds of impounded levies. Since the Supreme Court's decision strengthened the case against the Public Utility Act, power stocks also rose sharply. Shares in farm machinery and mail order companies declined. Cotton spurted, then sagged. Wheat did the same. Sugar broke badly. But allowing for innumerable and inevitable readjustments, the average U. S. businessman hailed the AAA decision as even better news than the death of the Blue Eagle last June...
Stark Young's "So Red The Rose" contains the germ of a truly dramatic idea, and the sensitive adaptation by Sherwood Anderson and Lawrence Stallings makes the most of it. The scene is laid in Missouri during the Civil War, where we find Randolph Scott in the role of the forerunner to the modern conscientious objector. He "likes to see things grow," and hates destruction. His mature and civilized ideology run counter to the inflamed and destructive passions of the times. Consequently he is socially ostracized, is called a coward by his beloved cousin (Margaret Sullavan), and is torn...