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...pretending that there are." A successful industrialist himself (iron foundries, etc.), Stokes asserted that British aircraft manufacturers "have been living on their failures." In ten years, he said, Britain has spent $2.8 billion on 166 aircraft projects, 142 of which "went into the wastepaper basket as useless." Of these 166 aircraft projects, he said, only eight proved successful...
Bartley gave the losers their only score by sinking a 50-foot push shot in the wrong basket. He added ten baskets and two foul shots to wind up as high scorer for both teams. By sinking the other point, D. A-. Resnick proved that Bartley is not infallible...
From the opening tap-off, Barnett followed Tebo like a hawk. Not until the thirteen-minute mark did Tebo score his first basket of the game, and that on a 30-foot set shot...
...that time, the Crimson's pre-game thesis--that if you stopped Tebo, you stopped Brown--had been proven. For when Tebo dropped in that first basket, the varsity held a commanding 34-18 lead, and led 45-31 at the half...
...earn the contempt of the battery commander. Gunner Asch wins his corporal's stripes and shows up the simple-mindedness of the goose-steppers. But by a superb irony, he is the final loser; through the simple expedient of throwing all the Asch-inspired reports into the waste basket, the commander restores discipline, and the battery reverts to glacierlike army routine...