Word: townes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Business. Like most other colleges which have good basketball teams, St. Louis U. has to pay for it. It gives talented out-of-town players board, room and scholarships, plus incidental expenses. But it all comes back in gate receipts, and plenty more besides. College basketball, like college football, is now big business. It is also the No. 1 U.S. sport in attendance figures. Last year, 75 million people paid to see basketball games. Baseball, which considers itself the great American game, was 10,000,000 admissions behind, and football, which draws its big crowds only once a week...
After a dreary series of revivals, summer stock and out-of-town closings, McClintic gave him a role in a 1942 Broadway show, Emlyn Williams' The Morning Star. The show soon folded, but the critics had some nice things to say about a new juvenile named Gregory Peck...
...picture, Days of Glory, was a rather pathetic Hollywood attempt to make a Russian-style "art" movie. It was not a box-office success; but before it was released and before most of Hollywood had even seen it, Peck was one of the most sought-after properties in town...
Report Card (Wed. 10 p.m., CBS). Hour-long documentary on the crisis in education, based on a Rutgers University-CBS survey of schools in one U.S. town...
Shawnessy Hero. As in Ulysses, the formal setting of the novel is one community and the time one day. The community is the small town of Waycross, Indiana, and the date July 4, 1892. The hero, John Wickliff Shawnessy, is both family man and poet, combining the two archetypal characters that Joyce separated in Leopold Bloom and Stephen Dedalus. Mr. Shawnessy, 53, schoolteacher and county scholar, moves through the day as a leading citizen in the local celebrations. At intervals the day's events or reflections, like firecrackers, touch off flashbacks to the significant events of Mr. Shawnessy...