Word: stadiumitis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...back the famed Davis Cup, didn't try to look too good too early. He passed a preliminary singles tourney so that he would not reach top form before he wanted to. But last week the workmen were building temporary stands in Melbourne's Kooyong Stadium to accommodate the Cup crowds, and Jack...
Queen Elizabeth, returning home in a car after a dinner party, had to be escorted home by a corps of bobbies with torches (British for flashlights). At Wembley Stadium, 4,000 hockey fans, marooned for the night, snuggled against one another in the grandstand. At New Cross race track the greyhounds lost sight of the rabbit. In the Channel the S.S. America groped and bellowed mournfully, unable to make port. Other ships ran aground. In Southampton, Ivor Thomas and his fiancée Elithia Zinck-just in from Bombay-drove off a dock and were drowned...
...seen floating fairs before. But the new arrival from Italy-a Government-sponsored job with actors and opera and a portable stadium-was even more elaborate than the showcases that the Japs had sent over before...
Ashore, the Italians came off less happy; at the Municipal Theater a comedia company flopped in two Pirandello plays. But this week there might be a comeback ; the Italians intended to set up their portable stadium before the massive, stolid Treasury Ministry, parade La Scala stars in La Traviata...
Television screens lie in store as a new medium of entertainment for the University, possibly within the next year. To be designated WBZ-TV, a new station located adjacent to the Stadium will be Boston's first commercial television facility...