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Pennsylvania's flashy sophomore, Chink Crossin, is third with 57 points. Top scorers for the other colleges are Walter Budko, Columbia, 56; Bud Palmer, Princeton, 55; Dick Giles, Cornell, 43; George Burditt, Harvard, 46; and Jim McGaughey Yale, 37. Burditt, the Crimson's captain, played his last game for the Cantabs on Saturday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Victory Over Tigers Gives Quakers Undisputed Basketball Lead | 2/17/1943 | See Source »

...something. "The events of the last week," said U.S. Minister Robert Murphy, "marked a definite departure from the Vichy form of Government." The definite departure amounted to a reorganization of General Henri Honoré Giraud's administration, giving supreme power to the old soldier, but also opening a chink through which Fighting Frenchmen might some day enter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Conversation Piece | 2/15/1943 | See Source »

Pennsylvania's attack, led by the sharp-shooting of veteran guard Larry Davis and forward Chink Crossin, who totaled 22 points between them before the evening was over, overwhelmed the slow starting Crimson. Coach Earl Brown's team couldn't seem to hit the basket that half...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Swimmers Dunk Penn, Hoopsters Lose, Pucksters Blank Williams | 1/18/1943 | See Source »

Franklin D. Roosevelt last week pulled a fast one, had the farm bloc sweating and cursing-and right where he wanted it. Just when they thought they had plugged every chink in the farm-price structure, F.D.R. blandly found a hole as big as a barn door...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PRICES: Farmers Outfoxed | 2/9/1942 | See Source »

Franklin Roosevelt, who occasionally talks through his hat but more often pulls rabbits out of it, last week pulled out a rabbit and threw him into the brier patch of Civilian Defense. The fierce-looking rabbit: hawk-faced, hawk-eyed James McCauley ("Chink") Landis, Dean of Harvard Law School. A precocious Princetonian and one of the keenest legal eaglets ever to swoop from Harvard Law School, Dean Landis was an early Brain Truster, as SEC chairman presided over a whipped Wall Street...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CIVILIAN DEFENSE: Landis to OCD | 1/19/1942 | See Source »

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