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...Howe scored another goal, leaving him within shooting distance of the record-50-set by Montreal's Maurice Richard in 1944-45. ¶In Cleveland, Rio Grande's Basketballer Bevo Francis sank 54 points against Wilberforce (final score: 109-55), paced his team to its 39th straight victory this season. Winding up with an intercollegiate record of 1,954 points, the skinny freshman, who just got his delayed high-school diploma a month ago, announced: "Now I'm taking off to hit the books." ¶In Baton Rouge, with a splendid 13-under-par 275, Sammy Snead...
...Impulse. A fortnight ago, with 224 other men of Company L, 39th Infantry, Edgar was in one of a series of final training exercises: an attack, with live ammunition, on a line of dummies "defending" a hill. Rifles banged. Artillery shells moaned overhead and exploded in "enemy" territory. Amid the excitement Edgar had an odd impulse. He aimed his M1 rifle at the back of 2nd Lieut. Richard Davenport, 22, the officer commanding his platoon. Then he pulled the trigger. The officer toppled over dead with a bullet through his heart...
Last year the Crimson finished in 39th place, next to last...
...Nicholson's prizewinning December 5, 1949: The enclosed, by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Staff Cartoonist Cy Hungerford, is the average man's criticism of the 39th Carnegie show...
Many of the Carnegie exhibitors take the opposite approach, hastily dropping their brushes as soon as their work begins to resemble something. But in abstract art the effect's the thing, not the method-and, as the 39th Carnegie proves, a slew of puzzling, annoying, innocuous or pleasing effects can be achieved. Eight of the best are shown on the following two pages...