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...horrible having to leave Herrick there alone. I went out through the window and around the cottage smashing all the windows with a wastepaper basket and hollering 'fire'," Coolidge continued. "But I couldn't get back." He was praised by Quebec provincial police for his rescue attempts...

Author: By Gavin R. W. scott, | Title: Seven Undergraduates Die Over Christmas Holidays | 1/5/1956 | See Source »

...stick his big paw up like a second backboard, and tap the rebound in. The technique was so exasperating that rival coaches wrote a new "Russell rule" into the game-they widened the free-throw lane to 12 ft. so that Bill would have to stay farther out of basket-hanging range...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Along Came Bill | 1/2/1956 | See Source »

...boys.) After breakfast and inspection, the younger boys attend classes; the older ones work about the grounds (with brief cocoa break at 11) until 11:55, break for lunch, return to a work detail until 4:25, when they knock off for tea. Evenings are devoted to metalworking, basket weaving or woodwork, with dinner at 8:10, followed by chapel and lights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Shock Treatment | 12/19/1955 | See Source »

...statement represents is revealed when one realizes what preventive measures are currently under consideration. One of the gruesome tortures being meditated is a system of signing out and in before and after holidays. If this rank regimentation fails to work, then the authorities have another asp in their basket--hour exams on the last day of classes before holidays...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen | 12/19/1955 | See Source »

...late Crimson drive narrowed the gap to 67 to 63 after 16:40, but a pass-in from under the basket went awry, and Tufts thereafter widened the gap by capitalizing on forecourt fouling by the losers...

Author: By Adam Clymer, | Title: Tufts Five Defeats Crimson, 84-76 | 12/16/1955 | See Source »

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