Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...prize was a four-year college scholarship. His wife Claire, a comely, red-haired white woman, agreed that it would be a wonderful chance for their 2½-year-old boy, Lester. Since the winning baby's popularity was to be decided by the sales of admission tickets, George began a one-man ticket-selling campaign...
Admissions prices asked by the 15 colleges contacted ranged from $1.80 per ticket at Hamilton to $4.80 per ticket at several. The average charge was $3.60, while Notre Dame merely said that it charged "established rates." Syracuse, Brown, Notre Dame, Hamilton, SMU, and Columbia didn't charge student admission. Al colleges where students paid admission through activity fees or coupon books, the prices ranged from $10 to $25 per entire athletic season. The average seating capacity at the stadiums of the 15 colleges averaged 38,098. Yale bad the biggest capacity, 84,000, and Hamilton the smallest...
Colleges of late have felt uneasy about admitting the importance of football receipts in their budget; they sense that there is something unwholesome about it. Provost Buck, for instance, said a year ago, "Complete dependence of an athletic program on ticket sales is a dependence on public support, and this is an unhealthy condition." Only one of the 15 schools, Syracuse, answered "yes" to the question: "Is it the policy of your institution to give varsity athletes, especially football players, a special 'break' in regard to financial help?" It is doubtful that all the other 14 were altogether honest...
Providing that the violator gets only one ticket between now and the end of the calendar year, he will escape without fine. On January 1, the Chief will destroy all records of tickets given during the past year. If students fail to respond to tickets, King declared, "We'll tow their cars away and make them pay the charges...
Violators will suffer progressively larger fines, starting witha warning, one dollar, two dollars and three dollars for the fourth and each succeeding ticket...