Word: stadiumitis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Louis v.Jersey Joe Walcott(Wed. 10 p.m., ABC*)-The big fight from Yankee Stadium...
...presidential special rumbled down the Rocky Mountain grades into Butte, Harry Truman was a bitter, baffled man. But Butte's volatile and traditionally Democratic miners gave him a big hand. Forty thousand people lined the streets to cheer him, and 10,000 jammed a high-school stadium to hear him speak. Facing them, he suddenly dropped the folksy role he had been playing and launched a passionate and rashly phrased assault on the Republican Congress. He spoke savagely of G.O.P. Presidential Candidate Bob Taft: "I guess he'd let you starve. I'm not that kind...
...Harry!" It was a startling performance but it had its effect. One of the biggest street crowds in Seattle's history lined downtown sidewalks when he drove through. His speech in the 12,000-seat Memorial Stadium was made in the afternoon, drew only 6,000. But exuberant throngs of Navy Yard workers jammed a downtown intersection in Bremerton, across Puget Sound, when he appeared there. The crowd yelled, "Lay it on, Harry!" as he renewed his rawhiding of Congress. He cried: "They are going down to Philadelphia to tell you what a great Congress they have been...
...Bronx, Babe Ruth put on his old uniform for the last time: in a homeplate ceremony at Yankee Stadium the uniform was formally presented to the Hall of Fame and National Baseball Museum at Cooperstown, N.Y., and the Bambino's celebrated old number 3 was officially retired, never again to identify a Yankee...
Walcott's big advantage over the Champ, who has been on top too long to be hungry, is incentive. No one doubted that the old Joe Louis could knock Joe Walcott stiff in a round or two. The big question, to be answered next week in Yankee Stadium, is whether the present-day Joe Louis can still beat anybody-even a deserving never-was like hungry Jersey...