Word: stadiumitis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Communist Boss Matyas Rakosi had a painful fortnight. He had had to deal with a counterrevolution in a stadium, a Premier who tried to go AWOL, a peasantry that insisted on owning its farms, a proletariat that insisted on higher wages, and -worst of all-a Christian who prayed for Communists...
...yesterday invited Ivy Films to send the members of its television department to the tower behind the stadium to have the techniques of television demonstrated to them...
None of the 102,580 people in Philadelphia's Municipal Stadium last week really expected to see Navy (which hadn't won a game all season) beat Army (which hadn't lost all season). But the midshipmen, taking inspiration from another upset, ran up a sign saying "Gallup Picks Army" and another one saying "Harry Is On Our Side...
...rather unpromising fashion, with a Suite by Holst and a piece by Vaughn Williams that seemed to suit the concert hall more than it did the players. But the call for "Wintergreen" showed that the audience still had faith in the Red Coats, and thought better of Stadium music than of symphony-type arrangements...
...Harvard this fall were Bobby Jack Stuart of Army, who gained a first-string rating; Dartmouth's left end and captain Dale Armstrong, on the second squad; and Joe Quinn of Cornell who found a place for himself as third-line guard. Stuart will be seen here in the Stadium next fall when Army plays its return game...