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Word: ticket (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Those who want tickets to the Harvard-Pennsylvania basketball game in the Boston Arena next Tuesday had better hustle," said Frank O. Lunden, Ticket Administrator of the H.A.A., yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tickets for Penn Basketball Game Melting Fast, Says HAA | 2/20/1948 | See Source »

...enthusiasm to spread to Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House. Why? For one thing, no one ever accused the Met of being progressive. General Manager Edward Johnson works on the theory that his customers like what they have been given, because they come back for more. Season-ticket holders buy out 85% of the house in advance, and take potluck. More than half of them have held seats for ten years; 10% of them for 40 years. Says Johnson: "Why should we force a new venture when we can sell out the house with Rigoletto?" And, unlike Broadway theaters which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Opera's New Face | 2/16/1948 | See Source »

Third party delegates will have to look beyond the College Observatory for a Massachusetts gubernatorial candidate. Harlow Shapley, Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy and director of the Observatory, yesterday turned down and offer by the State Progressive Citizens of America that he run for governor on the Wallace ticket...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Shapley Says 'No' to PCA's Governor Bid | 2/10/1948 | See Source »

When Brazil's Congress voted last month to toss the Communists out of all legislative offices, most party members got tossed. One who did not was wiry, red-headed Pedro Pomar. Reason: Pomar, though a Commie, had been elected on the government party's ticket...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: Call to Arms | 2/9/1948 | See Source »

Full-Grown Shoot. A factor in Earl Long's primary victory was the strength of Judge Robert Kennon, who was all but counted out in the early betting. He ran on an all-G.I. ticket and corralled 125,606 votes, many of which might have gone to Jones. Fourth in the primary was tough-talking Congressman Jimmy Morrison, another old aerial root off Louisiana's once-flourishing political banyan tree...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LOUISIANA: Bitin' Man | 2/2/1948 | See Source »

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