Word: season
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Though he was perhaps the most spectacular performer of the season, he was not alone. The fall of 1949 produced a full flowering of the congressional junket. With EGA, D.P. camps, trade barriers, military installations and the Folies-Bergere all to be inspected, almost any standing committee could dip into the public purse for foreign travel. A great many...
Notre Dame went to Texas last week expecting to wind up a perfect season in a blaze of touchdowns. Instead, in Dallas' Cotton Bowl, it was all but charged off its All-America feet by a fiery, accurate Southern Methodist team, minus its injured star Doak Walker but brilliantly led by Halfback Kyle Rote, that fought as if it were defending the Alamo...
...grace of one touchdown, Notre Dame had won the national championship and finished its fourth undefeated season in a row. But the Irish had been in a football game and they knew it. Said Coach Frank Leahy: "The best team we've met all season . . . Kyle Rote is the most underrated back in America...
Last week stone-throwing Bill Bingham found out what it was like to live in a glass house. Harvard had finished the most calamitous season on record (one victory, eight defeats), and the Boston press was having a field day. Wrote Bill Cunningham in the Herald: ". . . Harvard still thinks of herself as a national power when, as a matter of fact, she's only the champion of Middlesex County, and that only ... because she didn't meet Arlington High School...
Variety says that show business is bad this season. This unfortunate condition will not be improved by the arrival of the musical revue, "Alive and Kicking...