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Some 475 '24 graduates and their families spearhead the giant Harvard delegation of fans along with the spryer members of 1899 and the soberer of the 1939 crowd. The male members of this throng will march behind the band to the filed shortly before game time, while mothers and daughters will struggle to the diamond as best they...
With prospective fortunes to liven interest (a gas-company worker once took a flutter for 10? and won $295,180), crowds at the games dwarf the crowds that turn out for U.S. sport events. When Scotland played (and beat) England two months ago, a throng of 150,000 crammed London's Wembley Stadium to see it done...
...will begin next Christmas Eve. All through 1950, Roman Catholic pilgrims from every corner of the world will journey to Rome, hoping thereby to earn a plenary indulgence (remission of temporal punishment for forgiven sins). Authorities expect at least a million pilgrim visitors to Rome. To help house the throng, a large hostel is being built near the Vatican, and others on the city's outskirts. The Men's International Association for Catholic Action has set up a nonprofit organization called Felix Roma, to arrange tours allowing each pilgrim ten days in Italy (seven in Rome and three...
...Philadelphia Museum of Art played host to a motionless throng last week: 252 figures stood about the main hall and on the museum terrace. They were there for Philadelphia's Third Sculpture International (previous shows were held in 1933 and 1940) and a share of the award-money...
Napkin on the Knee. The luncheon-held in a high-ceilinged Senate committee room complete with crystal chandelier, potted palms and outrageous painted cherubs-soon resembled a subway rush. A bar did a roaring business at one end of the room. A jostling throng of Senators, Cabinet officers, Congressmen and newsmen juggled drinks and loaded plates as the President sat eating, napkin on knee, on a chair against the wall...