Word: stadiums
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Colonel Ruppert might have bought a $75,000 goldbrick. That came in the training season last spring when Di Maggio first bruised an ankle and then, while treating the injury, managed to get his foot burned by a sun lamp. He made his debut at the Yankee Stadium three weeks late, got a triple and two singles in six turns...
...roar. What had happened, spectator asked spectator? A husky, blond San Franciscan by the name of George Varoff, they learned, had just twisted over the bar at the incredible height of 14 ft., 6½ in. By the time the crowd leaned back again on Palmer Stadium's uncomfortable cement seats, the 1,.500-metre race was over. First, in the mediocre time of 3:54.2, was Kansas' Glenn Cunningham. Second was another Kansan, Archie San Romani. Venzke and Bonthron trailed...
...convention had come and gone (see p. 11) Franklin Roosevelt stepped briskly back into the national spotlight. Late Saturday afternoon he and Mrs. Roosevelt entrained at Washington, detrained at Philadelphia, drove into Franklin Field a few blocks from the convention hall. Carpeting the ground of the great stadium below the speakers' stand sat the tattered veterans of the convention soon to be invalided home. Around them, wet by showers but undampened in spirit, sat a new bevy of New Dealers, 100,000 strong. National Chairman Farley had rallied them to adorn the Rooseveltian triumph; 200,000 tickets had been...
...orchestra, the Essex County Symphony, completed its second week of concerts under Erno Rapée in a stadium near Newark, N. J. Audiences discovered that no longer need they suffer from New Jersey's mosquitoes, thanks to a new larvicide with which the air was sprayed...
...That busy Spaniard, suffering no permanent hurt from the airplane accident he was in last spring in Trinidad (TIME, April 20), had arrived during the fortnight from a South American tour, had flown to Detroit, then back to Manhattan to open the summer season at the Lewisohn Stadium. Iturbi said he was booked for 47 U. S. concerts during the summer. In the Lewisohn Stadium, where three years ago he managed for the first time to make the U. S. think of him as a conductor, Iturbi appeared in a white flannel suit, dark blue shirt and white tie, played...