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Though little, and only 13 years old-and unable to afford a gymnasium of its own-Brooklyn's Long Island University has for several years had tip-top basketball teams. Coached by Accounting Teacher Clair Bee, a nervous little 150-pounder who never was any great shakes as an athlete but is a generalissimo at working out strategies on a wooden board, Brooklyn's Blackbirds have chalked up 149 victories in 159 games...
...himself is recognized as the greatest technician on the alto sax in all the surrounding territory. His "Flight of a Bumble Bee" is often done so fast that it gets done about two seconds before the people at end of the hall have begun to hear it. Drummer Buddy Schutz and trombonist Don Matteson are two of the best. Besides having a marvelous classical background, one of tenor saxman Herby Haymer's joys in life is to work in things like "Hymn to the Sun" in arrangements of "Liza"--also making faces that only a mother could love...
...that was needed to make War II the legitimate heir to War I was a knitting bee, and busily clacking their needles this week were more than 5,000,000 British women, more than one-ninth of the whole population of the Kingdom. Yet with the demand for yarn ten times greater than in peacetime, the price last week was successfully held to eightpence (14?) per ounce, up just a penny from the pre-war level...
...notable exception among the foreign countries being given the bee: the U. S. Tokyo newspapers suddenly began to notice the importance of U. S. markets. A Japanese airline official turned up in the U. S. to make arrangements for a Japanese-owned Guam-Tokyo link with the China Clipper. Another was in Manhattan expansively buying U. S. instead of German automobiles and machinery. Six Japanese goodwill fliers spanned the U. S. The Japanese knew very well that if the Divine Gale hit the U. S. too hard, it might turn around and blow a not-so-divine fleet across...
...Orleans, Ferdinand, 1,000-lb. Jersey bull, pushed halfway through a fence hole, devoured a 100-lb. sack of cornmeal, got stuck. To Ferdinand's rump,' Owner William Lashley, lacking a bee, applied the live terminals of an electric battery, shocked Ferdinand free...