Word: balle
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Vest & a Smile. With the white upper crust, however, Earl Baldwin fared less well. He affronted Whitehall by suggesting that the Colonial Office stop sending him suggestions and start sending money. He snooted officials of the U.S. military base on Antigua, and at one ball for blacks and whites condescended to dance only "with the blackest and ugliest" woman in the room. His favorite luncheon guest was a small pickaninny who wore nothing but a vest and a broad smile. Such eccentricities, the white colony complained, were a bad influence on the restless natives. Earl Baldwin was summarily ordered...
...week's end, when Montreal's Mayor Camellien Houde puffed up to McGill for the carnival ball, he put the crown on Beryl Dickinson-Dash's head. In the voting by McGill's 8,500 students (150 of them Negroes), Beryl had posted a decisive margin. The student council gave out no figures ("It might injure the other girls"), but it was satisfied with the election result. McGill's students, untroubled by any race problem, had merely voted for a popular and attractive girl, regardless of the color of her skin...
Winchell was making a characteristic hidden-ball play, a retraction that gave no hint to any but the closest reader that a whistle had been blown on his fairness and accuracy...
Like most successful coaches, Adolph Rupp is a painstaking worrier. Although he has recently written a book, Championship Basketball (Prentice-Hall; $3) cautioning against overworking players, he works his own hard. He feeds them vitamin pills, keeps weight charts, advocates squeezing a small rubber ball to develop arm and finger muscles. "There are no secrets in the game," he says with a straight face...
Lethargy was the big Harvard ailment. During the first half the quintet showed no ability at all under either basket, while the Terriers, sparked by Daly and Winkler, took control of the ball after almost every shot. At one time, BU led by 21 points...