Word: basketfuls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Janowicz and the passing of Princeton's Dick Kazmaier, over the West, 15-14, in San Francisco's annual Shrine game. ¶ The St. Louis University basketball team, the Sugar Bowl title, over Kentucky, 61-60; in New Orleans. A St. Louis tip-in basket with four seconds to play upset Kentucky for the second straight year. North Carolina State, its third straight Dixie Classic, over Cornell, 51-49; in Raleigh...
Harry Sachs paced the Crimson attack with 20 points. Guard Roger Bulger sank seven long set shots for 14 points, while forward Paul Shaw had nine and Captain Rollin Perry, eight. Hefty Jack Underland tossed up 24 points for the losers, mainly on tap-ins under the basket...
Wilson, however, decided that he did not need a pivot man on the taller-than-average freshman team. So he is now teaching Manning how to shoot set shots from the outside and only come in to the basket to take rebounds. In the opening freshman game against M.I.T. Saturday, Manning was purposely instructed to stay out. This was in order to lure the Engineers' big center away from the backboards which he would have controlled if he had played in close...
...week's end, as though Italy had not suffered enough, typhoid threatened to break out. Engineers surveying the area concluded that it would be months before flood waters receded from the Po delta, bread basket of Italy...
...time, sharing honors with Metropolitan Opera Soprano Helen Traubel and old-time Partner Eddie Jackson. Durante, as usual, tore a piano apart, but he was at his best in the short sketches. Samples: in a supermarket, Jimmy trundled off with a beautiful girl sitting in the rolling market basket, told the audience: "I'd have taken two, but they'd get stale"; to an errant Kellogg salesman, he ordered: "Turn in your snap, popple and crack...