Word: weekends
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...whole football seasons synthesized into three hour, red and blue capsules, to be swallowed only in the Yale Bowl or Harvard Stadium. What more can be said? The 75,000 spectators, the sounds and colors, the brandy and Chanel-scented air--all the riotous and mellow components of the Weekend are, above all, tributes to a football game that year after year begins with little, brews for sixty minutes, and produces greatness...
Tradition will prevail once again today in the sixty-fourth running of the Harvard-Yale football classic in the Yale Bowl here in New Haven. The six weeks of preliminary competition that marked the Elis with a crushing superiority went by the boards last weekend with a pair of startling upsets, and the 1:30 o'clock kickoff today will find most of the 70,496 persons in the anticipated sellout crowd of the opinion that "it will be anybody's game...
Everyone was madly trading clothes. You can't wear something your date has seen on such a big weekend Mary hacked off a green formal so that she could have that new-look length. And little Peg borrowed a skirt a size too large so that it would be long enough. Sally asked me if she could borrow my formal which is the kind you can wear without pressing...
When she came in, she was kidding about having just turned down her seventh bid for the weekend. I nearly cried. Now Sally is wise to the idiosyncrasies of men-or so she says, being a high, and mighty pretty senior, and she took me under her wing...
...Weekend stay-at-homes are invited to share the Yale game broadcast, play-by-play blackboard charting, and refreshments starting at one o'clock tomorrow afternoon in the large common room of the Union. The Union Committee announeed the smoker last night...