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Smart Promoter Veeck livened things up with fireworks, vaudeville acts, strolling minstrels, a playground for kids. This season, Cleveland set a new major-league attendance record: 2,260,627. And as fast as the money rolled in, Veeck peeled it out. His best buy: Satchel Paige, the ancient Negro pitching marvel...
While the Varsity mills around on the fields next to the aged Business School stands, Freshman practice formally opens at 3 o'clock today on the adjoining field in back of the Business School under the direction of Andrew "Poley" Guyda. Scattered Yardlings drifted to the soccer playground yesterday and on Tuesday, and Guyda is anxious to start forming a team for his schedule which opens in two weeks...
...native Long Islander, I resent your referring to New York's playground as "Long Guyland" [TIME, June...
...rich on the nation's appetite for meat and bread and for the West's desires for the East's calicos and gadgets. But Kansas City also grew famed among U.S. cities for its sin. The cow town became a little Paris, a wide-open playground for cattlemen, drummers, oil wildcatters, and-somewhat later-glad-handing U.S. conventiongoers...
...Newton, Mass., spends his off hours on his 46-ft. cruiser daydreaming up new textile tricks, like "Crown College." To pep up morale in his main Crown plant in Pawtucket, R.I., Joe built glass-enclosed smoking rooms, decorated the plant in cheerful colors, landscaped its lawns, built a playground and baseball diamond. Among New England's grimy, ancient plants it so stood out that workers began calling it Crown College...