Word: tickets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Comedians were flown in from Hollywood and Florida to do two-and three-minute introductions of the different numbers. Jack Benny had an uneven skit about his troubles in buying a ticket to a Rodgers & Hammerstein hit; Edgar Bergen made only the sketchiest effort at being a ventriloquist in a pair of episodes with Charlie McCarthy and Ed Sullivan; Groucho Marx got the best laughs as a quizmaster cutting Rodgers & Hammerstein down to size...
Students can probably expect to pay 20 percent less on football tickets next fall, Frank O. Lunden, H.A.A. Ticket Manager said yesterday. The drop in prices resulted from a 999 million dollar cut in excise taxes passed yesterday by Congress. Congressional leaders consider the bill certain to obtain President Eisen hower's signature...
...drop in ticket prices will only affect the sale of extra tickets, since the University will continue to offer each student one free admission for every game...
Even with a ban on spring practice, the problems of football crop up at strangely unseasonal times. All through the winter, for example, the inequities of ticket distribution have plagued the H.A.A. and, judging from the number of groups investigating the situation, the ticket question will probably still be unanswered this springs...
With this plan, both obstacles in the present ticket plan would be by-passed. The jumble of pre-game afternoons at the H.A.A. would be eliminated, without the cumbersome middleman system proposed for the Houses and men from different Houses could sit together at the games. Also, if they wanted to sacrifice better seats for conviviality, students in large groups could attend in a bloc. Elimination of the past mistakes and inefficiencies in distribution is definitely worth the investigations and the committees appointed. The above plan, with its considerations of both speed and convenience, answers the awkward ticket question...