Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Struggling to cope with the greatest deluge of ticket applications since the glorious heydays of the twenties, the Harvard Athletic Association has been forced to limit both undergraduates and graduates to no more than two seats per person for Saturday's encounter with the Elis, Ticket Manager Frank O. Lunden disclosed yesterday...
Naturally enough, the loudest hurrahs came from the Republicans. In New York, as everyone had predicted, it was Tom Dewey by a mile; in Pennsylvania it was James Duff who rode in on the Martin ticket; in Connecticut, James L. McConaughy, onetime college president; in Michigan, racket-busting Kim Sigler; in California, Earl Warren, who had both parties' nominations. In Kansas it was veteran congressional tax expert Frank Carlson in a walk (despite his tacit support of the state's anomalous bone-dry law) over repeal-minded Harry Hines Woodring...
Musical interludes for the evening festivities will be offered by the assorted lands of Burt Edwards, Jerry Mitchell, Georgic Grahame, and Chappie Arnold. Every Yale man will have an opportunity to ingratiate himself with the victors if he takes advantage of the reciprocal ticket sale that is already underway in New Haven...
London fog, source of endless inspiration to cinema scriptwriters, is just a headache to season-ticket-holders (British for commuters). On the 20 to 40 days each winter when visibility falls below 200 yards, the Reading, Chelmsford and Maidstone trains creep along at 30 m.p.h., often wait 20 minutes at junctions, reach London as much as two hours late. Last week British railway technicians were hard at work trying to do something about fog-foundered trains. They had two novel gadgets, both still in the experimental stage, which might make it possible for trains to keep up their usual clip...
...Greyhounds offer little promise to ticket holders with no specials scheduled. The only run that will make Hanover by game time will leave at 11:59 o'clock tonight and reach White River Junction at 4:30 o'clock tomorrow morning...