Word: stadiumitis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dismayed Her Crew . . . That night at Chicago Stadium he spoke before 20,000 Swedish-Americans who were celebrating the 100th anniversary of Swedish immigration to the Midwest. He pulled out that surefire issue-Communism-and used it as a sort of moral prop for his civil-liberties program, for slum clearance, old-age pensions, and higher minimum wages. The audience was friendly but calm...
...Imagine that!" the big hammer thrower said, mopping sweat from his face, "getting beat by a little guy like that." The speaker was 262-pound Shorty Folsworth, the place Lincoln, Nebraska's Memorial Stadium last July and the "little guy" Harvard's Samuel M. Felton, Jr. '48 who had just finished second in the National AAU 16-pound hammer throw with a shot of 172 feet, 5 inches...
Today, with the Olympic tryouts at Diche Stadium, Evanston, only a month away, Folton is high man in this country with a heave of 180 feet, 5 1/2 inches, made at last Saturday's New York AC meet. He has won the hammer throw in every meet he has entered this spring, including the IC4A championships, and is favored to take the National Collegiate title at Minneapolis this Saturday, and the National AAU crown on July 2-3 at Milwaukee. He set new Harvard records in both the hammer and discus during the recent season...
Last week Bones, who was not invited to run in the traditional I.C.4-A. Championships at New York City's Randalls Island Stadium (his college is not a member), performed for the home folks. At Delaware, Ohio, he won three more races, stretching his record string of consecutive victories to 73. Next month is graduation, and then the Olympics. After that Dillard would like to own a haberdashery. Says he: "I just like to be around good clothes...
...madder she got. Said she: "I told the committee I would play only on the center court. I'm the defending champion and I don't see why I can't play on the center court . . ." Just to show them, Pat flounced out of the stadium. France's Mme. Nell Landry promptly claimed and got a victory by forfeit...