Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mozart on the piano, he thinks he will have "a great opportunity for leadership." He was one of the authors of the report of the President's Commission on Higher Education (TIME, Dec. 29, 1947), calling for doubled college enrollments by 1960; believes the government should play a big role in bringing that about. "I'll have," says he, "an interesting life...
Last week, the Daily Worker announced that the A.Y.D. had dissolved itself. One big reason, perhaps the main one, was that A.Y.D. was finding it too tough to get new members, or even to hold on to old ones. It had shrunk to a handful of active chapters. There was nothing left to do but change names again. Soon, as A.Y.D. promised, U.S. colleges would discover a new "Marxist youth organization" on their campuses, "carrying forward A.Y.D.'s . . . militant activity in the interests of young people." But this time it might be harder: Communist fronts no longer seemed...
Basketball in 20 Plays. There are three big reasons-not in any sense secret-why Coach Rupp's team has been burning up the courts for four seasons. One of them is blond, 5 ft. 10½ Ralph Beard, his gum-chewing "quarterback." A master dribbler and playmaker, Beard usually starts the play pattern, picking one of Kentucky's basic 20 (ten for each side of the court), featuring ball-handling and the inside-screen. The other two: 6 ft. 7 Alex Groza and 6 ft. 4 Wallace ("Wah Wah") Jones, who do the heavy scoring up front...
...said he, was like a baby who had been taking the bottle too fast; it had to have a chance to burp. The big question was: "Is it going to be just one little burp, or is it going to be a chronic hiccup which is going to kill baby...
...Lockheed, thanks to big military orders, got out of the red in 1948 and hoped to do better this year. It had worked its bank debt from $27,000,000 down to $6,000,000 and has a $195,900,000 backlog, compared to $124,820,000 a year...