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...campus rally last week, California's Coach Lynn ("Pappy") Waldorf said he'd settle for a one-point victory. Some of the fans were sure that Pappy was just having his little joke. True, Stanford was the traditional big rival, but Stanford had been beaten five times already this season...
...Bears took the opening kickoff, and marched 59 yards down field to score. But after that the Bears began to play like cubs. They got fumbleitis: the ball squirted out of their hands five times. California was lucky to win, 7-6. Reminded of his one-point quip, Coach Waldorf mumbled: "This ought to teach me to keep my big mouth shut...
...reported price of $3,500,000, paid to the William Waldorf Astor estate, the Shuberts also got famed "Shubert Alley," the narrow thoroughfare through the block, in which Lee Shubert's big Cadillac is usually parked. Unlike the Radio City deal, which promised a vast change in the landscape, this one promised little. The four theaters, built and owned by the Shuberts, are also operated by them. The Shuberts, who would have lost them when their lease expires in 1952, reportedly bought them because movie companies were eying the property. The deal strengthened their position as the biggest, oldest...
...opening game against the Irish, the Boilermakers worked up enough steam to press all the pants in South Bend. After playing inspired football all afternoon, Purdue was beaten by one heartbreaking point, 28-27-and hasn't been the same since. Said California's Coach Lynn Waldorf, late of Northwestern: "They not only beat you, but ruin your team [physically and mentally] for the next weekend...
...Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria one day last week, big wheels of the U.S. publishing industry watched a research engineer photograph a colleague. Just 45 seconds later, the engineer handed them a photograph, "developed" without a darkroom, chemicals, negative, or sensitized paper...