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...Sellout. Far & away the biggest-and most worrisome-event in Harry Truman's holiday week was a concert at Constitution Hall. The artist: Soprano Margaret Truman. In all paternal pride, the President wanted his daughter's Washington debut to be an unspoiled success-and hers alone. He did his best to keep out of the spotlight...
...here in New Haven. The six weeks of preliminary competition that marked the Elis with a crushing superiority went by the boards last weekend with a pair of startling upsets, and the 1:30 o'clock kickoff today will find most of the 70,496 persons in the anticipated sellout crowd of the opinion that "it will be anybody's game...
Yale authorities, faced with a sellout of the spaces allocated to them called Cambridge yesterday morning to attempt to obtain a few tickets. William E. Perkins, Yale Business Manager, found a similar situation here, with all admissions assigned and turnbacks already stated for use, thus assuring a full house of nearly 80,000 for the Saturday tussle...
...face, and as agile of step and gifted of satire as ever. He is one of the few dancers alive who, with no company of dancers to surround him, no scenery to set him off, and only a piano to accompany him, could command the attention of a sellout audience for an entire evening, and leave them begging for more...
Pursuing this fall's schedule further, the Dartmouth and Princeton games will be here and the Yale game in New Haven, so that in each case the larger stadium will be used; the Holy Cross game should also be a near sellout; and Bingham predicted a large crowd for the Rutgers game based on the psychological spectator reaction of last year's defeat. "The Dartmouth-Holy Cross 0-0 tie was probably a good thing for us," he added, explaining that if one of these teams slumped off this year the attendance at all its games would fall...