Word: weekending
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...certain sense the money all went to waste. For Saturday's telecast was important mainly as a part of the NCAA's new regional "game of the week" plan, and the true test of this plan came not this past weekend, in Hanover's Memorial Field, but this past summer in New York's Madison Avenue. It was then that CBS, having bought from the NCAA the right to televise five games this fall on a regional basis, tried to sell this telecast "package" to a sponsor. At the desired prices, however, no one was buying. Sponsors were first...
According to Lowell police, the students, who were returning from the Dartmouth weekend in Hanover, pulled out to pass two cars at the same time on a three-lane highway by-pass skirting the city. Hird, the driver, was unable to get back in line in time to avoid colliding with the Fulton vehicle...
Some 2,700 of Dartmouth's 2,800 undergraduates had dates for the weekend, however, and a party that big just couldn't be kept completely private. Although all fraternities officially demanded both dates and guest cards as admission certificates, it was occassionally possible to discover a long-lost friend inside
...officially announced that "no announcement concerning Princess Margaret's future is at present contemplated." and urged the press "to extend to Her Royal Highness their customary courtesy in respecting her privacy." But hot on the heels of this announcement, the Princess and the Commoner sped off for a weekend in the country, traveling separately but meeting at the Wills's vast, parklike estate in Berkshire. Hordes of newsmen and photographers collected outside its wrought-iron gates. Desperate for news, they moved in hungrily on the only source at hand, seven-year-old Marilyn Wills, when she strolled down...
...Weekend has already started in Hanover, N.H. Fraternities are crowded with the best of dates from Colby, Smith, and points south. Alumni from all over the country have flocked to Dartmouth for the traditional game. There is no chance of rain, according to the forecasters. Last night was "Dartmouth night"; today is Homecoming; in short, it will be a weekend to cap all weekends, even Dartmouth weekends...