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...matter what shortages might afflict the U.S. people, they found themselves last week with the world's greatest supply of the gear and sites necessary for celebrating New Year's in the American Way. Football stadia and dozens of marching bands stood ready for the bowl games; so, for the night before, did hundreds of nightclubs and hotels, endless shelves of whisky, thousands of waiters, bartenders, jugglers, tenors and striptease dancers, and a fortune in fizz water, paper horns, tow cars, aspirin and ice bags...
...course, this would mean that most of those nice big stadia--like Harvard's--would go unfilled, an that in turn would mean fewer dollars. But a program of gradual deflation now could prevent a bust later. Any stockbroker can tell you about that, and it's not hard to imagine what would happen the day Notre Dame finally gets its corner on the player market. Big Ten would fall off 28 points in the first ten minutes' trading, and not even the million and a half dumped on the market by the Pacific Coast and Southern houses could hold...
...knows a good deal about football. He disagreed politely with Cunningham, who had stated that football players made great soldiers, by pointing out that most of the men who fought in the war were in the stands during football games. He mentioned that the seating capacities of our college stadia far exceeded classroom space, and that this rather than the score at Stanford was a cause for worry. He didn't discuss the team much, for the reason that he hadn't watched them yet. But he wound up with a pretty good argument for Mr. Bingham's athletic policy...
...necessary steps for the preliminary work have already been taken in connection with the preparations for the 1940 Games, so that the Organization Committee has a good start for the 1952 Games. The Helsinki Stadium, together with special stadia for swimming contests, rowing, horseback-riding, wrestling, etc., are already built . . . The Helsinki main Stadium has accommodations for more than 80,000 persons...
...Tribuna Popular in Rio's streets. It did not raise his stock with conservative President Eu rico Gaspar Dutra. Last week, Dutra was reported to have canceled a contract recently awarded to Niemeyer for a great aeronautical center near Sao Paulo-an air city with hangars, workshops, hospital, stadia, schools and apartments...