Word: subways
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...instance, here's how Madar scouted Dartmouth against Penn last October 2. Around 10 o'clock on the Friday before the game, he drove from his Brookline home to the Indoor Athletic Building (where the Columbia game rally had taken place a few hours earlier) and then took the subway to South Station. Before boarding the midnight sleeper, he bought several newspapers, "to get a preliminary idea of the game and pick up some of the atmosphere." Previously he had studied all available movies of the Dartmouth team in action, and had gone over scouting reports on the Big Green...
Nobody got excited until about 12:45 a.m. The evening started lazily. There had been little enthusiasm in the campaign, although Republican cockiness had passed for it now and then, and Mr. Roper had told everybody what was going to happen. The man selling newspapers outside the subway station ignored the election and just shouted "Get your Record here," as usual; almost nobody was watching the television set at Jim's Place...
...week's end, Gus headed back to Marshall Pass. He hadn't thought much of New York. "Them subway entrances. They're like gopher holes." He had not thought much of New York's "young ones." Said Gus: "They all look like they wanted to go to a picture show day and night. They don't look tough enough to go huntin...
Ticket sales indicate a crowd of 30,000 to 35,000. However, the Cross always draws a subway alumni delegation in good weather, and this may boost gate receipts...
...must have seen the writing on the subway walls. I am referring specifically to the scribbings on the subway advertisements for Orson Welles' new movie, "Macbeth," on which some subway riders have felt moved to give capsule reviews of the film such as "This stinks." But I am also referring more generally to that great new indoor sport called "Pinning the Tail on Orson," which was conceived by "Life" magazine. Its approach to the film was exceedingy unfair and just another proof that Mr. Luce's big, slobbering monster ought to have its claws trimmed and its pants changed before...