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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Captain Ed Smith finished in second place in the Ivy League basketball scoring race behind Pennsylvania's sophomore star. Ernie Beck, it was announced yesterday. Eleven marks were broken and one tied in the league's greatest record-breaking season in 47 years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Smith Finishes 2nd in Ivy League Basketball Scoring | 3/21/1951 | See Source »

Smith's 227 points placed him 17 behind Beck, and was only 29 behind the all-time record of 256 held by Tony Lavelli of Yale Smith's total, nevertheless, made him fourth highest scorer in the history of the Ivy group. John Rockwell '50 led the league last year with 189 points...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Smith Finishes 2nd in Ivy League Basketball Scoring | 3/21/1951 | See Source »

Smith was yesterday named to the Eastern League's all-star first team by the seven coaches of the League. Other members of the team were forward and Most Valuable Player John Azary of Columbia, center Ernie Beck of Penn, guard Paul Gerwin of Cornell, and guard Mike Kearns of Princeton...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Smith May Play as All-Star | 3/20/1951 | See Source »

Into Thin Air, by Warren Beck. A small but sure novel about two lost souls in a Midwestern town (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: RECENT & READABLE, Feb. 26, 1951 | 2/26/1951 | See Source »

...Warren Beck is an English teacher at Lawrence College (Wis.). In Into Thin Air he never talks big and never tries for too much, but he shows writing craft good enough for a larger theme. When he finds it, the U.S. may have another novelist to cheer about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Any Small Town | 2/19/1951 | See Source »

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