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After half a season the Varsity basket-ball team has become quite used to being the underdog in every game, and it will be playing its usual role tonight when the Princeton Tiger, second ranking quintet in the League, invades the Indoor Athletic Building quite confident of handing another trimming to the sixth-place Crimson...

Author: By John C. Robbins, | Title: Hoopsters, Underdogs Again, Have Chance to Upset Tigers | 2/10/1940 | See Source »

...usual, the Harvard team will be depending on its speed and quickness to score the hoped for upset. The tactics of working the ball in from the center of the floor to a spot where a set shot can be tried or all the way in under the basket made the Indians look sheepish during most of Wednesday's encounter and should be even more effective tonight...

Author: By John C. Robbins, | Title: Hoopsters, Underdogs Again, Have Chance to Upset Tigers | 2/10/1940 | See Source »

...game started off slowly as the score see-sawed between the two teams. Columbia was working fast off the backboard, while the Crimson seemed to lack confidence, and worked the ball down to the basket to no avail...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FIVE OPENS E.I.L. SEASON WITH WIN OVER COLUMBIA | 1/11/1940 | See Source »

Bill Webber with 11 points led the Crimson forces, but on the whole the team's offense was ragged. Charley Lutz scored nine tallies, five on free throws. Although he was unable to focus his aim on the basket all evening, he made up for it in dogged scrap...

Author: By John C. Robbins jr., | Title: BRUIN HOOPSTERS STIFLE HARVARD'S BASKETMEN 50-39 | 12/14/1939 | See Source »

Known variously to Parisians as "Aunt Geneviéve," "the Pythoness," sometimes "the wastepaper basket of Europe," Tabouis in private life is the wife of an obscure radio executive, mother of two grown children. In the house of her uncle Jules Cambon, onetime French Ambassador to Berlin, she acquired a taste for the vague generalities of political conversation. After the war she took to visiting sessions of the League of Nations, writing chatty letters to her uncle from Geneva...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Aunt Genevi | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

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