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...York colleges (St. John's, Manhattan and N.Y.U.) announced that they would play basketball next season at the same old Madison Square Garden stand, the ugly story of the basketball scandals flared up again. Three more players, all from the City College of New York's 1950 "Cinderella Team," were arrested for fixing games last season. The three: Norman Mager, now a professional with the Baltimore Bullets; Herb Cohen, a C.C.N.Y. junior; and Irwin Dambrot, co-captain of the 1950 team...
With the latest arrests, C.C.N.Y.'s whole first-string Cinderella team had been accused of throwing games for the gamblers. Summing up the investigations to date, the Manhattan press had taken to publishing a sardonic new kind of box score: total players under arrest (from C.C.N.Y., N.Y.U., L.I.U. and Manhattan): 16. Held as a material witness: 1. Total amount of bribes: $58,000. Number of Garden games fixed...
...game, the Mormons from Brigham Young (enrollment: 5,500) had prayer in the locker room. As usual, the Skyline Conference champions (24-7) did not pray for victory; they simply asked God to help them play like good sports-and to the best of their ability. Dayton, dubbed the "Cinderella" team of the tournament after upsetting top-seeded St. John's of Brooklyn and fourth-seeded Arizona, just hoped the slipper would continue to fit. For a while it almost...
Walt Disney did not father the animated cartoon, but he has been its outstanding foster parent. Disney's child, however, seemed no brighter or more grown-up in 1950's Cinderella than in igsy's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Last week a different kind of movie cartoon was being turned out by a onetime Disney hand named Stephen Bosustow and his bustling United Productions of America...
...Clock High) turned up among the top ten in Variety's list of 1950's biggest box-office grossers. The public's favorites, in order of popularity: Samson and Delilah, Battleground, King Solomon's Mines, Cheaper by the Dozen, Annie Get Your Gun, Cinderella, Father of the Bride, Sands of I wo Jima, Broken Arrow, Twelve O'Clock High...