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...away. The city's handsome new stadium seats 51,000 for baseball, 57,000 for football. And that is just the beginning. With club owners more interested now in the tube than the turnstile, Atlanta is a TV promised land so hungry for something to watch that Washington Redskin games and major league baseball games are piped in by coaxial cable...
...Chrysler Theater (Hope is the host, not a performer) began with a play by Rod Serling. It was about a modern-day Chippewa who goes back to his town to avenge his father's death. It frequently sounded good. "You have no tribe," said an old redskin. "You are a scar that walks like a man." But the story had a formula slickness...
Povich gets his fun by gibing not at the performing elephants but at the mahouts. One enduring and vulnerable Povich target is Redskins Owner George Preston Marshall. Well aware of Mar shall's reluctance to hire any Negro players,* Povich improvised tellingly and endlessly on the same theme. "There was considerable integration in the Skins' end zone yesterday," went one typical Povich column, noting which Negro on the opposing team had just crossed the Redskin goal line. When Marshall and his movie-star wife Corinne Griffith (they have since been divorced) took a trip...
Last week against the unbeaten Washington Redskins, the Giants' bald eagle put on a display that left the fans in Yankee Stadium limp with ecstasy. When the Giant running game crumbled against a Washington line averaging 255 Ibs. per man, Yat filled the air with footballs, completed 27 of 39 passes for 505 yds. and seven touchdowns-tying an N.F.L. touchdown record set 19 years ago by the Chicago Bears' Sid Luckman. Then, with the game on ice 49-34 late in the fourth quarter, Tittle passed up a chance to try for a record-breaking eighth touchdown...
...caught flatfooted by a suddenly sprung long pass. "There's no such thing as a 'sure thing' in football," says Tittle. "The important thing is to play percentages-to do the thing that has the best chance of success." Last week End Del Shofner reported that Redskin Defender Claude Crabb could be faked out of position. "Yeah," nodded Tittle, 'as soon as we get a chance." By game's end, Shofner had caught eleven Tittle passes for 269 yds. and one touchdown...