Word: balling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Manhattan's Hotel Commodore last week, the top brass of two big league ball clubs eyed each other for size and vulnerability. Both were suffering similar symptoms: the New York Giants had some stars who did not speak Manager Leo Durocher's roughneck language and the Boston Braves had a long list of players who were incompatible with easygoing Manager Billy Southworth. A swap might keep both from repeating their indifferent 1949 showings...
...second half, the Varsity settled down after trailing, 24 to 16, at the half; the team began to work the ball into Rockwell, and with one-and-a-half minutes to go, it led, 53 to 50. During the remainder of the game, Springfield dropped in seven free throws and a field goal, with Rockwell, Stiles, and Covey fouling out in the process...
...Philharmonic-Symphony Society of New York discovered that there's nothing like an oldtimey masked ball to attract partygoers. Staging a masquerade in the Waldorf-Astoria grand ballroom for its Pension Fund, the Philharmonic lured in 1,200 masked dancers, twice the number that attended two previous open-faced fund-raising parties. Among the celebrities and socialites who showed up (at $25 a ticket): the white-tied Marquess of Milford Haven and his American fiancee, Mrs. Romaine Simpson; black-tied ex-King Peter of Yugoslavia and Queen Alexandra; Warren Austin, permanent U.S. delegate to the U.N., and Mrs. Austin...
...indecipherable tangle of syrupy colors and tricky, scratch-and-patch textures without visible sentiment of any kind. Conway, who golfs about as well (in the high 70s) as he paints, had clearly taken great pains to scramble his prizewinner. Painting, he says, is like golfing: "Hitting the ball for miles and miles to try to get it into that little hole...
Rockwell and Smith have paced the team's scoring so far this year, racking up 159 out of its total of 275 points. They have been averaging just under 20 points per game. Shepard has somewhat revised his pre-season plans for fast-break ball to capitalize on their skill under the boards; his strategy worked nicely last Tuesday when the varsity beat a swift BC quintet by forcing it to play a close, deliberate game...