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...After 7-ft. Wilt Chamberlain and his University of Kansas playmates took a stunning 39-37 beating from Iowa State, Kansas Basketball Coach Dick Harp went into seclusion with a set of chessmen to work out the right moves for the return match. When the Iowa Cyclones came back to Kansas, Chessman Chamberlain slipped out from his post position under the basket, pulled three Iowa defensemen to the foul line with him, gave his teammates room to drive in for scores. While "Wilt the Stilt" settled for only four field goals, Kansas won 75-64, all but took possession...
Forte and Dwyer between them tallied 61 points. The fast, shifty, 5-9, 145 1b. Forte drove and scrapped his way to 29 points, about the same average which has made him the nation's second top scorer, behind Kansas's seven-foot skyscraping Wilt Chamberlain. He was outperformed by his side-kick, however, as the 165 1b. Dwyer made good on 9 of 17 shots, many from the corners, and 14 free throws for 32 points...
...Anthony Eden. Descendant of a centuries-old landed family, educated at Eton and Oxford, decorated for gallantry in World War I. Foreign Secretary at 38, Eden was the handsome glamour boy of the prewar international scene, made himself the hero of millions when he resigned in 1938 to protest Chamberlain's policies of appeasement. He was probably the most skilled diplomatic technician of his time. When, after long years in the shadow of the great Churchill, Eden became Prime Minister in 1955, he led the Tories to an electoral victory which tripled their majority in the House. Polls showed...
...Americans criticized Neville Chamberlain for talking and not acting; you criticize Anthony Eden for acting and not talking. Do you know what in hell you do want...
...Tory Member of Parliament and later (1936-44) provost of Eton, best man at the 1908 wedding of his lifelong friend Sir Winston Churchill; of a heart attack; in Bournemouth, England. A High Churchman who deplored nonconformists, Lord Hugh objected in 1938 to Unitarian Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's advising the Crown on the appointment of Anglican bishops, observed darkly: "If we lived in the reign of King Henry VIII, a Unitarian would not be in Downing Street. He would be burned at Smithfield...