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...North Carolina Tar Heels journeyed to the NCAA finals for the 6th time in 20 years last night, searching, just striving, for their own share of heaven--Blue Heaven they call it down in Chapel Hill. But a stingy Indiana defense combined with an almost at-will penetration of the Tar Heels' halfcourt press laid waste to their heaven as the Hoosier's denied the Tar Heels 63-50 and claimed the national collegiate basketball title in Philadelphia last night...
...verbal error, but spoonerisms are a different fettle of kitsch. In the early 1900s the Rev. William Archibald Spooner caused a stir at New College, Oxford, with his famous spoonerisms, most of which were either deliberate or apocryphal. But a real one-his giving out a hymn in chapel as "Kinquering Kongs Their Titles Take"-is said to have brought down the house of worship, and to have kicked off the genre. After that, spoonerisms got quite elaborate. Spooner once reportedly chided a student: "You have hissed all my mystery lectures. In fact, you have tasted the whole worm...
...fact, if you're not out on Franklin Street right now, this sports page and the Charlotte Observer's in one hand, and Ken Rapoport's classic tome Tar Heel Basketball in the other, you can forget about snagging a seat at Chapel Hill's favorite watering hole...
...Wood or Worthy or Cecil Exum or whoever else cuts down that net after taking the title, but they'll give a nice hand to vanquished star Isiah Thomas, too. These are the fans that gave Maryland's Tom McMillen a Standing O just for wanting to go to Chapel Hill (too bad his mom wouldn...
...Philadelphia would be great. But on the whole, I'd rather be in Chapel Hill...