Word: stadiumitis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Carroll F. Getchell, H.A.A. official, has officially opened the annual season on temporary hirings by the University to handle the trials of intercollegiate football. Ushers and ticket-takers for the Stadium are the operatives in demand this season, Getchell said...
...biggest crowd (60,135 fans) ever to see a regularly scheduled pro game jammed Cleveland's Municipal Stadium to watch Cleveland's Browns run away from Miami, 44-0. The big attendance was no lucky accident: Arthur McBride, the Browns's owner, had hired 25 telephone operators to call everybody in Cleveland, to urge them to get out to the game. The runaway score made it no match to watch, but the management had thoughtfully advertised big half-time shows, with everything from fireworks to a leg show by a $50,000 all-girl band. Two days...
...sense it last week. The little boys in the tennis-minded subway stop on the outskirts of New York City, who talk of tennis stars as other American boys discuss Joe Di Maggio and Ted Williams, scouted for good spots to shinny over the fence. The horseshoe-shaped concrete stadium was set to house global tennis again, with French, British and Australian accents. Inside the West Side Tennis Club's 11½acres, a kind of F. Scott Fitzgerald wonderland of pretty girls in shorts and lean, athletic men, the primping and preening went...
Attentive throngs of Witnesses turned out faithfully for lecture after lecture in mammoth Municipal Stadium. From a platform in the infield, speakers hurled Biblical fireballs into the packed stands. The joyous climax of the Glad Assembly came on Universal Peace Day. There Watch Tower President Nathan H. Knorr, successor to the late, mellifluous "Judge" J. F. Rutherford, denounced most human institutions, especially the United Nations. Cried he: "Display outright fearlessness of this world conspiracy. . . . God's vengeance is speedily coming against all conspirators...
...Hood Dell Orchestra for the concert last week. At intermission, Arrau gulped down gobs of milk, afterwards wolfed a big steak. Said he: "It turned out not just a joke." This week, after hopping up to the Berkshires for a concert at Tanglewood, and to Manhattan for a Lewisohn Stadium appearance, he will take his first vacation in five years...