Word: stadium
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Newark Airport the private car which the pair had expected did not turn up. A fellow passenger obligingly motored them to Vincent Astor's Manhattan hotel, the swank St. Regis. That evening General Johnson watched Fisticuffer Joe Louis pummel Fisticuffer Primo Carnera at the Yankee Stadium. At a luncheon next noon the General was initiated into the Circus Saints & Sinners Club, where he promised to "help the needy circus man" (cautiously muttering, "this is unofficial"), was treated with a shower of popcorn, decorated with a plug hat and a paper medallion certifying him a BIRD TRAINER, presented with a duck...
...nights bring good cheap music to many a U. S. park, stadium, hillside. Launched with the St. Louis "Muny" opera (TIME, June 17), the summer music season was well under way last week at the following places...
When the landscapist was laying out the football field in Princeton's Palmer Stadium in 1914. he decided that the sides of the field should be banked, started grading by digging a deep marginal moat. Belatedly it was pointed out that the proposed embankment would be dangerous to footballers forced out of bounds. Thereupon, the moat was turned into a cinder track whose unusual depth of ballast surprised one & all by providing a remarkably springy surface. Thus an accident accounts for what many a runner considers the world's fastest track, a smooth, black 440-yd. oval...
...After swift William Robert ("Bonny") Bonthron (Class of 1934) turned Princeton's eyes once more to track & field events, Graduate Manager Asa Smith Bushnell and freckled, good-natured Publicity Director Frederick Spring Osborne hit upon the idea of staging a post-season track meet in Palmer Stadium for the elite. So well was the idea promoted that no less than 40,000 spectators turned up in the concrete horseshoe one blistering afternoon last week to see the second annual Princeton Invitation Track Meet...
...Frank E. Johnson, III, Chorister. Hardly had the last note passed away than the battle of paper began, with great fury. With a strong breeze blowing, everybody was soon covered with bits of paper. The Senior Class with deadly accuracy threw paper bombs at their friend in the stadium, who returned in kind. After this subsided, the Class marched out onto the baseball field and halted in left field, arranged by classes. Then they all marched around the diamond, cheered the Yale team in their dugout periodically and finally made their way to seats in the stands...