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Last January, the U.S. Lawn Tennis Association repealed its eight-week-a-year limitation on acceptance of invitation tournament expenses by the U.S.'s star players. Even before, however, gadabouts like Seixas & Co. were not much restricted in their gadding. The U.S.L.T.A.'s "emancipation proclamation" merely changed the text to fit long-existing facts. Whenever the eight weeks' rule was not honored in the breach, it was usually bypassed with exceptions. The tennis tourist's new year-round freedom to live off the fat of many lands will, nonetheless, add many new stops to old itineraries...
...previous years, the Crimson was beaten as badly on the spring trip by southern squads that had been playing year-round golf, that it was decided merely to hit practice shots this spring, and compete only in the regular season, which opens April 15 against Babson...
...second important factor in the hostility is the difference in financial composition between town and gown. According to the Daily News of February 18, 1952, "... Yale is like a glittering showgirl in a roadside diner. Her beauty and expensive clothes overshadow the fact that New Haven, to its year-round inhabitants, at least, is a mill town. Its citizens are mainly factory workers who take home factory workers wages. This is the basic cause of strife...
Bargain hunters found plenty to choose from. Artists ranged from such established figures as Ogden Pleissner, Dean Fausett and Luigi Luciono to Housepainter Patsy Santo, local farmers, housewives and schoolchildren. Prices began at $15 and ran up to $3,500. Many buyers were year-round citizens. There were also some big-name summer people who showed up with their checkbooks ready, among them Merck & Co.'s George Merck (TIME, Aug. 18), Lambert Co.'s Gerard Lambert...
...power plants near Skagway on the Canadian border. The cost, $400 million, would make the project the second biggest single investment ever made at one site by U.S. private industry.† It would eventually boost Alcoa's aluminum capacity 60% to 2.1 billion pounds annually, provide year-round employment for 4,000 and create a new Alaskan city...