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...miles outside of New Haven, sitting like the saucer of a giant teacup, lies the Yale Bowl. From the outside it is unimpressive. There is no mighty iron fence nor massive concrete sides to mark it at a distance, but only a mound of shrubs with hollow portals peeking...

Author: By Philip M. Cronin, | Title: Circling the Square | 11/24/1951 | See Source »

Yale officials are proud of their saucer-bowl and they make sure it is well protected. A week before every Harvard-Yale game large details of policemen are assigned to patrol inside and outside the Bowl. Powerful floodlights skim the field to watch for pranksters...

Author: By Philip M. Cronin, | Title: Circling the Square | 11/24/1951 | See Source »

...Harvard-Yale debacle. Yale football, however, with its Pudge Heffelfinger, Ted Coy, Little Boy Blue Albie Booth , a great winning record, and a sensationalism now fostered by Herman Hickman offers a natural source material of interest to football fans who never sat in the New Haven saucer...

Author: By Bayley F. Mason, | Title: Pigskin Rivalry Over 75 Years | 10/11/1951 | See Source »

...Thing (RKO Radio) is a ferocious vegetable, eight feet tall, delivered on a flying saucer from another world. It bleeds green, howls like an aggravated banshee, multiplies by dropping seeds into the earth. It thinks like Einstein, looks like Frankenstein's monster and, like Dracula, thrives only on a diet of human blood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, may 14, 1951 | 5/14/1951 | See Source »

...home, including a comely, sweater-bulging secretary (Margaret Sheridan). Except for the Air Force captain (Kenneth Tobey), whom the script had fated for her, the men treat this cute tomato with vegetable-like indifference. They keep their minds on science, though not very scientifically, e.g., when the grounded saucer's radioactivity sets their Geiger counter sputtering, they walk calmly into the radioactive field...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, may 14, 1951 | 5/14/1951 | See Source »

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