Word: coliseum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...High Society and Royal Garden Blues. In Turin, Armstrong worshipers squatted or knelt in the theater aisles when all seats were filled. Rome's welcome was the biggest yet. Armstrong played three sellout concerts, got embraced by Italian Cinema Queen Anna Magnani (Open City). Sightseeing in the Coliseum, he raised his gold-plated trumpet, gave out with a honey-toned Sleepy Time Down South. Seated on a Coliseum ledge, he dashed off music and words for a 32-bar improvisation, then lifted his burlap voice and sang it on the spot...
...championships, Patton's wife artfully kept his mind off the race. He didn't begin to work himself into a state-in which his placid disposition turns sour and he fails to recognize his best friends-until just before he set out for Los Angeles' Olympic Coliseum last week...
...wanted no "candy and cake" atmosphere, refused to allow an ice show in the coliseum or a professional football game in the L.S.U. stadium. He frowned on the university's traditional brand of student election campaigns, with their bathing beauties, free shoeshines, jazz bands, fire engines and acrobats. "I hope I am the last person to take the joy out of going to college," he told his students, "but just what sort of a university do you want...
...alumnus of Notre Dame's great 1929-30 backfield, reportedly has vowed never to play Notre Dame again so long as Leahy is there. Perhaps the best reason Southern California still plays Leahy's superteam is economic: Notre Dame's magic name fills Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum...
...convention time, only a few of Drew's Bay Street backers were around his headquarters in the Chateau Laurier, and fewer still were at the Coliseum. The tall, well-tailored figure of Edward William Bickle, an investment broker and Drew's best friend, caught a bit of the limelight. Notably out of the limelight was another Drew crony and constant adviser, George McCullagh. One of the most powerful Canadian publishers (the Toronto Globe & Mail), McCullagh stayed away from Ottawa lest he scare off Drew supporters who still leaned a bit toward John Bracken's "ordinary man" position...