Word: stadiums
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first, when representatives of Chilean fishing companies began calling at the immigrant pen in Santiago's National Stadium to talk jobs with him, Edward Sienkiewicz thought it a big joke. Yes, it was true: he had told the interpreter that he knew about fishing-fishing was his hobby. But he had also told the interpreter that in his native Poland he was known as the grandnephew of famed Novelist Henryk (Quo Vadis?) Sienkiewicz, as a cello virtuoso and as an occasional conductor of the Warsaw Symphony Orchestra...
Sienkiewicz's interviewers at Santiago's stadium listened, smiled, went on talking about the good jobs in Chile's southern fish canneries. Sienkiewicz got worried, pleaded with camp authorities for a chance to show his skill with a cello. At last they called in a group of musicians. The little man played for them. By nightfall, Cellist Sienkiewicz was the talk of Santiago...
Northwestern's unbeaten, unscored-on footballers nervously pulled on their togs. A sign on the wall in Evanston's Dyche Stadium was meant to be reassuring: "You are as good as the next guy. [He] pulls his pants on one leg at a time, too." It was small comfort: the beef-trusters (up to 250 Ibs.) in the Minnesota dressing room wore much bigger pants...
Barry Wood, the Crimson all-American quarterback, led his team to victory in Harvard's first game at Michie Stadium, giving the teams an even split in games there...
WEST POINT, N.Y., Oct. 15--The Crimson Varsity invaded the inner sanctum of Army's football greatness this afternoon, working out for an hour on the turf of Michie Stadium before retiring to nearby Storm King school for the night...