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...Running is our game," said Laker Coach Fred Schaus, and he told his young team to chase the veteran Celtics (aver age age: 29) off the floor. But if the Celtics were aging, they were graceful about it. Bandy-legged Bob Cousy, 34, the matchless playmaker, whipped sidearm passes the length of the court to launch Boston's fast break. Towering (6 ft. 10 in.) Bill Russell, 29, swept in rebounds like an angry mother plucking her child from the arms of a too-attentive stranger. Sam Jones poured in points-29 the first night, 27 the next...
...Harry Albert Batten, chairman of the board. N. W. Aver...
Bent on Tragedy. Most men would aver that he was overscrupulous, a man often rendered impotent by the severity of his own dedication. For most of his working life, that dedication was placed at the service of journalism and films-to his admirers' regret. Reading the letters to Father Flye, it is easy to see how his great hopes might always be somehow frustrated by something else...
...Englishwoman who urges her penniless lover to start a flirtation with an ailing American heiress, hoping that the heiress, who is compared in the story to a dove, will soon die and leave him rich and free. In stripping the story to the operatic bone, Moore and Librettist Ethan Aver changed the name of the scheming suitor from Merton Densher to Miles Dunster (because, says Moore, ''the name Densher could not be enunciated today without a ribald response"), and they gave the opera an extra twist by making Densher announce, after the death of the heiress, that...
Wall Street suspects that one reason the public is not more enthusiastic about the new bull is that the Dow-Jones aver ages are not accurately reflecting the new market's real steam. Experts point to the rapid price rises of stocks not represented in the Dow-Jones averages, the large number of new highs hit each day. and the movement of Standard & Poor's index of 500 stocks, which has already hit a new alltime high. The Dow-Jones averages also contain many stocks that have not partici pated proportionately in the rise, such as oils, metals...