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Mark Hardaway, a 6 ft. 1 in. junior guard, leads Columbia with an 11.8 scoring average. Senior captain John Byrnes, a 5 ft. 9 in. playmaker, follows Hardaway with an 8.1 average. Four sophomores play underneath: John Avery, Larry Collins, Jerry Boone and Rick Newsome.
John Byrnes quarterbacked the Lions and contributed 14 points, all on long jump shots. He and his mates had little problem beating the desperate Harvard man-to-man press.
Load of Hay. Truman's investigation saved the nation billions of dollars during the huge hurry and grab of wartime procurement. By 1944, his personal stature had grown so impressive that some Democrats saw him as a way out for F.D.R., who was looking for a new running mate...
Truman was never torn by ambition. He did not particularly want to be Vice President in 1944 when word went out that F.D.R. was interested. Margaret shows how Roosevelt maneuvered him into the job against his will. First, F.D.R. had to get rid of two contenders, Vice President Henry Wallace...
"The story has long been told that F.D.R. finally yielded to the hostility of the city bosses who assured him that they could not deliver their heavily Catholic constituencies for Byrnes because he had abandoned Catholicism in his youth and became a Protestant. James Farley recently told me that the...