Word: bridgeport
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...field hockey team will meet Bates, Worcester State, and Bridgeport as its draw in the tournament today. The tournament is unusual in that no overall winner is named. Instead, the focus is on individual performance and the best players will be chosen to play in qualifying tournaments for the Nationals to be held over Thanksgiving. The strongest 33 players from the 18 competing colleges will make up the all-star teams to play in the sectional rounds...
...Bruins also remained atop the New England soccer poll, polling all 12 first-place votes. Connecticut stands second, Vermont moved up to third, with Crimson booters in fifth place behind Bridgeport. This week's poll, however, does not take into account Harvard's 3-1 loss to Amherst on Tuesday. The Lord Jeffs were ranked twelfth this week...
...Redcliffe, the Beech Island, S.C., plantation built by his great-grandfather, onetime South Carolina Governor and U.S. Senator James Henry ("Cotton Is King") Hammond. Billings dropped out of Harvard to drive an ammunition truck for the French army in World War I, then became a reporter for the Bridgeport, Conn., Telegram. He was fired, he recalled, for "writing too goddam much purple prose," and went to the old Brooklyn Eagle as Washington correspondent. Luce hired him in 1928 as TIME'S capital stringer to succeed a New York Herald Tribune reporter, Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. A year later, Billings...
...SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, is a failure by all professional baseball standards. But it is in the dissection of that failure that his book discloses the dimensions of a man and a game. The young pitcher's career was the polar opposite of Durocher's. A native of Bridgeport, Conn., Jordan was a spectacular Little Leaguer; by the time he reached high school, the Milwaukee Braves awarded him a $35,000 bonus. Sent to the Braves' farm club hi Mc-Cook, Neb., Jordan saw himself as the world's new Christy Mathewson. The world had other plans...
UNIVERSITY OF BRIDGEPORT...