Word: sellout
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...International Amphitheater in the heart of Chicago's stockyards, last week, a scarlet-coated trumpeter tooted his horn. A hush fell over a sellout crowd of 11,000. Fourteen high-stepping horses trotted into the ring, their tails arched high,*their riders sitting with ramrod-straight backs. At stake was the championship for five-gaited horses...
Ever since the Louis-Walcott fight, televised championships have become the rarity. Ray Robinson and others balked when prospective sponsors wouldn't pay over $50,000 in rights; only once last year--after a sellout house had been assured--did the TV camera follow championship boxing. However, there has been this one compromise: in general, only the setowners within a 50 or 75 mile radius of the stadium are done out of their television, for outside this area the promoters have no worries...
...Sellout Still Possible...
...afternoon rehearsal so that his musicians could go and hear Satchmo's golden trumpetings of 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...
Johnson went on to say that the overall sale of tickets this year has been disappointing. The Army game should have been a sellout and the Dartmouth game should have drawn much more heavily than it did, he said. Attributing the decline in attendance to the team's poor record, Johnson said that the loss to Columbia was the one which really hurt...