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Calling time-out, coach Floyd Wilson tried to steady his boys but it was no use. Harvard was a beaten ball team. Brown scored eight more points after the break before Borchard finally ended the agony at 11:09 over five minutes after the preceding Crimson basket...
There were some secondary questions in the minds of the fans. One was: How many different and flashy ways could the B.C. five invent to score a basket? Another was: Would Harvard even reach the 50 mark...
Then Chevalier drew the loudest cheer of the night for a driving layup during which he passed the ball behind his back twice. Later, he huried an overhand pass through a cluster of people under the basket to set up an easy two points for Ward...
...varsity started out as if it were going to duplicate last year's 84-34 romp. After 10 minutes, Deering's second basket in a row put the count at Harvard 15, M.I.T. 8. But the varsity began falling all over itself, and the Engineers led at halftime, 25 to 23. The lead see-sawed back and forth until there were four minutes to play...
Those lucky investors who years ago put $20,000 into International Business Machines, or a similar growth stock, and have seen it soar to $500,000 today, do have some problems. How can they get their eggs out of the one big basket, spreading the risk by putting their money into a number of stocks, without paying the 25% federal capital-gains tax? To help investors out of this gilt-edged dilemma, two young Denver bankers, Ranald H. Macdonald, 36, and William M. B. Berger, 35, launched a new mutual fund that permits diversification without selling and paying taxes...