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...Dallas' Cotton Bowl, All-America Doak Walker celebrated his 21st birthday by helping Southern Methodist to a two-touchdown lead. Then Walker & Co. spent the rest of the game trying to stave off Penn State, whose subs seemed to work harder than the seniors. The score: S.M.U. 13, Penn State...
There were moments last week when downtown Cleveland looked like a high-school holiday. For four days the city played host to more than 10,000 exuberant 15-to-23-year-olds in babushkas and bob-by-sox, sharp slacks and open shirts. The Methodist Youth Fellowship was holding its first international conference...
...hundred boys bunked in a wartime bomber plant and commuted to conference sessions in a fleet of 60 buses. The basement of Cleveland's massive Public Auditorium housed 1,600 girls (a minor crisis developed when they found only one mirror to every ten young ladies). Twenty-five Methodist bishops turned out for the occasion, as well as a couple of hundred foreign delegates...
...named James Robert Browne, who had spent 43 months overseas in World War II, 'said: "This is my third Christmas home and I am still not getting much kick out of it. Don't ask me why." College students, however, betrayed no such introspection. Girls from Southern Methodist University had some new slang: they spoke of all material things as "sussies" and used "sneedy" as a term of disapproval...
...Bowl Games (Thurs., all networks). A wide choice: Kansas v. Georgia Tech in the Orange Bowl (1:45 p.m., CBS); Penn State v. Southern Methodist in the Cotton Bowl (2:15 p.m., Mutual); Texas v. Alabama in the Sugar Bowl (2 :30 p.m., ABC); Southern California v. Michigan in the Rose Bowl (4:45 p.m., NBC); the East-West all-star championship game, in San Francisco's Kezar Stadium (4:45 p.m., Mutual...