In one swoop last week war blacked out three of California's brightest sport attractions: Pasadena's Rose Bowl football classic, San Francisco's East-West all-star game and the opening of Santa Anita, world's richest horse-race meeting. While California businessmen mourned the loss of a possible $20,000,000, the citizens of New Orleans cheered and chortled.
In a carnival spirit usually reserved for its Mardi Gras, the New Orleanians prepared to add the war-orphaned East-West football game* to the seven lusty events (all for $10) that already constitute Sugar Bowl week. Sugar Bowl week is only seven years old. But it has already challenged the prestige...