Word: sevens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ater playing in St. Louis before 9,662 people, the Scottish booters moved on to New York for the second of seven scheduled stops. Chief purpose of the tour: to try once again to whip up enthusiasm for soccer in the U.S., where the game's most rabid admirers* are in such places as St. Louis, Kearny, N.J. and Fall River, Mass. One reason why soccer may never take the U.S. by storm: the peak of the season comes during the winter months when fans prefer to be indoors and more comfortable watching basketball...
...help house the throng, a large hostel is being built near the Vatican, and others on the city's outskirts. The Men's International Association for Catholic Action has set up a nonprofit organization called Felix Roma, to arrange tours allowing each pilgrim ten days in Italy (seven in Rome and three on sightseeing side trips) which are planned down to the last menu. To handle transportation, Felix Roma has chartered seven ships and three Constellation airliners. The overall price from the U.S. (including a $1,500 insurance policy): $648 by sea and $798 by air. Catholics...
...class of '49, FORTUNE found, is a mature one (average age: 24). Seven out of ten male seniors are veterans, and three out of ten are married. "But it is in a different respect that the character of '49 is really extraordinary. For '49 ... has turned its back on what its elders automatically assume is ... one of the most cherished prerogatives of youth. Forty-nine is taking no chances...
Diamond Head. Ruddy, who lives with his wife and seven children in a spacious $125,000 beach home by Diamond Head, expects to gross $1,800,000 during his first year on the new CAB charter. He is convinced there is room for two airlines in the air-minded Territory, where 350,000 passengers flew among the islands last year. His fellow Orientals think so, too. When Ruddy recently floated a stock issue (at $1 a share) to finance his expansion, they eagerly chipped in their dollars. He sold 345,000 shares...
From the cradle, Goethe had both talent and audacity. At seven, he believed that his future greatness was assured by the stars at his birth. When his mother told him that men have to get along without the aid of the stars, the little boy retorted: "I can't get along with what suffices other people...