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...Slavic and German communities along the U.S. "polka circuit," nobody has to be told about Frankie Yankovic and his five-man polka band. In a year they play as many as 275 one-night stands in theaters, clubs and dance halls from Scranton, Pa. to Girard, Kans., and from Calumet, Mich, to the Ohio River. In big towns on the circuit, they have been known to outdraw such name bands as Guy Lombardo and Vaughn Monroe 2 to i. In small mining and farming communities a Yankovic appearance can bring out a crowd that is twice the size...
...violinists were all showing each other how to play-and no wonder, there were eleven ex-concertmasters in the string section. It was the same with the wise old woodwinds and the boastful brasses. After a frustrating hour, Conductor Weissmann felt like flying back to the peace of his Scranton (Pa.) Philharmonic. But when the Old Timers Orchestra of New York's American Federation of Musicians, Local 802, begged him to come for just one more rehearsal, he had to admit "I fell in love with them...
This fall there were signs of sprint-legged life on Fordham's playing field. Nobody paid particular attention when Fordham breezed through its early games against Kings Point (44-9) and Scranton (33-13), but when it bowled over Syracuse, 47-21, fans began to sit up and take notice. Then, fortnight ago, Fordham ran wild and smothered favored Georgetown, 42-0. The Fordham team, model 1949, began to evoke memories of the great Ram of old; the match between Fordham's unbeaten Cinderella outfit and awesome, unbeaten Army began to look like the week...
...V.M.I. 0 0 7 7-14 Pittsburgh 6 7 7 2-22 Pennsylvania 0 14 7 0-21 Brown 14 7 0 7-28 Western Reserve 0 7 7 13-33 Syracuse 7 7 0 7-21 Penn State 6 7 7 13-33 Scranton 0 6 0 0-6 Boston Univ. 20 0 13 13-46 Georgetown 0 0 0 0-0 Fordham 7 7 7 21-42 SOUTH Tennessee 7 14 14 0-35 No. Carolina 0 0 0 0-7 Gerogia 0 7 0 0-7 Alabama 0 7 0 7-14 Duke...
Last week, at the President's request, White House Troubleshooter John R. Steelman designated nine such areas: New Bedford and Worcester, Mass., Waterbury and Bridgeport, Conn., Providence, R.I.,Utica-Rome, N.Y., Scranton-Wilkes-Barre, Pa., Muskegon, Mich, and Knoxville, Tenn...