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Show HIGHLIGHTS the week's news FAIR: State and county will be held this coming year in many places that have had none since the war began. Delegates to the annual convention in Chicago of the Association Associ-ation of District and County Fairs, coming from 22 states, resolved to reopen the big shows. It was said that fairs held this year drew larger crowds and made more money than for a long time. FOOTBALL: Attendance at college col-lege football games declined 18.4 per cent from 1942, a survey of 57 large colleges and universities disclosed. The drop was biggest in the South, with 28.4 per cent and smallest in the East, at 6.4 per cent. A similar dowTitum was shown when 1942 figures fig-ures were compared with 1941. the decline between the two years being be-ing 19 per cent |