Word: balled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Harvard's first try came in the middle of the first half when Ned Whitney broke away and passed to Jim Field who crossed the line in the corner. In the second half Harvard kept the ball down in Long Island territory and Tony Cockins crossed the line for Harvard's second score. Bill Watt shortly afterward plunged through several opponents to score after receiving a pass from Jerry Desmond. Hayden Channing added the final three points on a penalty kick. All during this second half Harvard was in Long Island's half of the field, and crossed the line...
Among the forwards Auston Scott, Tom Gephart, Bill Williams and Ned Whitney were outstanding for Harvard, following the ball well...
...they were. Inside lucky girls invited to the annual Poverty Ball received shiny frying pans as favors from a pile of 350. While couples syncopated to the tunes of Tasker Crossman, at the polished circulation desk, converted into a bar, free beer flowed aplenty. Dressed as a ragged girl, an ingenious graduate won the prize for the best costume--a loving cup fashioned out of a headlight, a hub cap, and two steel pipes...
...Ball had not forgotten Newshawk Hadley, gave him a scoop which was not even shared with the Muncie Star and the Indianapolis Star, in both of which the Ball family has interests. The story: "George A. Ball . . . today confirmed the creation of the George & Frances Ball Foundation, charitable trust organized un der the laws of Indiana, and his donation to that foundation of his entire common stockholdings in Midamerica Corp." Directors were Mr. Ball, three members of his family and President Lemuel Arthur Pittenger of Ball State Teachers College. Kept by Mr. Ball were 18,733 of 20,000 shares...
Instead of silencing conjecture, the big Ball gift generated a swarm of new stories. Hearst's New York American "learned exclusively" that California Banker Amadeo Peter Giannini's Transamerica Corp., through Bancamerica-Blair Corp., had been negotiating for Midamerica's 2,064,000 shares of Alleghany Corp. common stock which it holds in the complex Van Sweringen corporate setup. But old Mr. Giannini denied this...