Word: roses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...second day of the new year taps were sounded this week for the 1938 college football season. While 215,000 fans watched the ceremonies in New Orleans, Miami, Pasadena and Dallas, millions of stay-at-homes, by their radios, followed events in the Sugar Bowl, Orange Bowl, Rose Bowl, Cotton Bowl...
...Pasadena's Rose Bowl, in an off-&-on drizzle, a powerful, versatile Southern California team which had given Notre Dame its only defeat of the season, tried desperately to gain the distinction of being the first eleven to cross the goal line of the 1938 Duke team. Though they outrushed the Easterners by 135 yards to 86, outpassed them by 84 yards to 53, not until the final minute did they succeed. Then with four magnificent forward passes, as dramatic as a Hollywood scenario, the Pacific Coast champions smudged Duke's clean slate...
...would have enjoyed the Martinis at these affairs. The Fellows have come to refer to her affectionately as "Aunt Agnes," and Aunt Agnes' Fellows have acquired a free-swinging conversational style under brilliant Archie MacLeish. After one long-winded speech from a guest economist, Fellow Ed Lahey rose and inquired: "Would you mind summarizing the point in ten thousand words...
Died. Edward W. Griffin, 69, Secretary of Alaska since 1933 and its Acting Governor in the absence of holidaying Governor John W. Troy; of heart disease; in Juneau. As he rose smiling from his seat to speak at a public meeting he toppled over dead...