Word: cincinnatis
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...boys at Madison Square Garden waited to be shown, for sophomore basketball flashes too often became fumbling schoolboys on their first trip to Manhattan's big time. When he loped out on the Garden's floor last week, the University of Cincinnati's Oscar ("Big O") Robertson needed a big night to show the skeptics he could play in the big league...
...Floating through the defense of Seton Hall, the lithe, 6-ft. 4½-in. Negro from Indianapolis did everything right. He drove for layups, hooked from the foul line, jump-shot with either hand. He picked off rebounds, intercepted passes, set up teammates. When the Big O was done, Cincinnati had drubbed Seton Hall, 118-54, and the new boy in town had 56 points, a Garden record...
...LOUIS, Jan. 19--The St. Louis Hawks stretched their National Basketball Assn. Western Division lead to eight games today with a 108-90 victory over the Cincinnati Royals...
Neil McElroy became Cincinnati's No. 1 civic participant, belonging to everything from the Community Chest to the opera association (as well as the Rookwood Historical and Philosophical Society, a bigwig, poker-playing group). In 1950 McElroy's public spirit took him to a luncheon for the president of Columbia University, who needed $25,000 to help finance Columbia's American Assembly, a series of conferences on public issues. After Columbia's president explained the project, McElroy asked him to "wait around for a few moments while I nail this thing together." On the spot...
...Cincinnatian McElroy contributed to the preconvention campaign of Cincinnatian Robert A. Taft, but supported Ike in the general election. As a Harvard overseer and an adviser to the University of Cincinnati, McElroy had long been a lay educational leader, and in 1954 President Eisenhower tapped him for a big educational assignment: chairmanship of the White House Conference on Education. Before taking the job McElroy first pondered whether it would "be good for P. & G." Then he bluntly asked Ike: "Are you genuinely interested in this problem, or are you doing this for window dressing?" Ike liked the frankness, assured McElroy...