Word: cincinnati
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bonaventure.† No. 4, which last week won its 16th straight, beating Cincinnati, 67-55. This week St. Bonaventure met Duquesne, No. 5 (14-0), in a game which involved the only two major unbeaten teams in the nation. The game was played in Pittsburgh's Duquesne Gardens (a privately owned arena not connected with the school) and was a 5,600 sellout. Duquesne had to turn back 25,000 ticket requests; St. Bonaventure claimed it could have sold 5,000 tickets around Olean...
Harvard is the 16th largest university in the nation on the basis of full-time enrollment, a recent statistical study by Raymond Walters, president of the University of Cincinnati, has disclosed. Enrollment here is listed at 9,916, as compared to first-place California...
...with an FBI man); after long illness ; in Covington, Ky. Originally a druggist, German-born Remus became a criminal lawyer, turned to bootlegging after seeing how easily he got acquittals for rich dry-law offenders. So wholesale were his operations that, on one occasion, a freight train chuffed into Cincinnati with 18 full carloads of liquor consigned to Remus. After shooting his wife in cold blood, he successfully defended himself on a plea of insanity. Sent to a mental hospital, he quickly proved his sanity and won his freedom by invoking the testimony of the prosecution's three alienists...
...most curious effect was on the man who is expected to be Lausche's opponent in November. Loyal Republicans will want to put up the strongest possible candidate against Lausche, an effective vote-getter. Quite a few old-line Republicans dislike Charles Taft's liberal independence in Cincinnati politics, but many of them will now swing over to Taft (brother of Senator Robert) because he is the strongest candidate in sight. Thus, Lausche's announcement materially helped Charlie Taft's nomination for the opposing ticket...
Injured in a factory accident in 1943, Engineer Robert Steger survived an operation for removal of a blood clot from his brain, but never regained consciousness. In Cincinnati's Bethesda Hospital, he was fed through a tube, gained weight, and seemed not to age. Last week, after what appeared to be the longest coma in medical history, Steger, 52, died from "deterioration caused by inactivity...