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Manhattan's huge Gimbels department store had big news and bought big ads to tell it: GIMBELS HAS NYLONS. Gimbels had 26,000 pairs-a tantalizing drop in the bucket in the face of the public's raging thirst. So, said Gimbels' ad: "Don't think we want to run this advertisement. . . . Come if you must. [But] we've taken this large space to point out how uncomfortable you will...
...Louisville last week, the one-basket wonders knew they needed more than Irish luck to squeeze by once-beaten but powerful Kentucky. They relied; as usual, on the straight-down-the-middle road, feeding the ball to 6 ft. 5 in. Vince Boryla, their trigger-armed bucket man. The half-time score: Notre Dame 28, Kentucky 24. For once, the unpredictable Irish played two halves alike, and finished on the front end of a 54-47 count...
Lord of the swill-bucket! Oh, how my soul...
Basketball's secret service, more serviceable than ever this year, had become as much a part of the game as bucket plays and zone defenses. Distance was no protection. Wyoming scouted Long Island U.; Big Ten teams spied frantically on one another. Advance reports can mean as much as ten points in the score. Scouts found and filed such facts as these...
From the stands, it seemed as if the Stahlen were working only one play, and using it over and over. Mariaschin would take the ball out, feed it to Champion, who would give it to Gray or Desci waiting in the bucket. From there it was pot luck, as the pivot man fed the ball to his forwards coming in for the layup. On these shots the Varsity had a deadly average of 100 percent: they missed them...