Word: circuits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Playing the Eastern circuit last week, Oklahoma A. & M. gave 18,102 Manhattanites a chance to size up its redhaired, 7-ft. Bob Kurland. the game's No. 1 tall timber. With Kurland collecting rebounds by the handful-his jumping reach is higher than the 10-ft.-high basket-unbeaten A. & M. humbled first-class N.Y.U., 44-to-41. (In another Madison Square Garden doubleheader, Muhlenberg's Mules, playing a cagey boring-in game, took St. Francis in stride, 56-to-18, for their sixth straight...
Katharine Cornell, soulful, dark-eyed U.S. actress, touring European war zones with her oldtime favorite, The Barretts of Wimpole Street, put up at Rome's lavish, fuel-short Grand Hotel, was promptly rated No. 1 on the "bathtub circuit" (hot water morning and afternoon)-a post-occupation honor hitherto conferred on only two other guests: Winston Churchill and General George Catlett Marshall...
Four days of play in the Intramural basketball league find the two NROTC teams leading the circuit, with two wins and no losses each. Averaging close to 35 points per game, the combination clubs from Companies F & G and H & I have swamped all opposition thus...
...Standish's belated entrance into the Intramural basketball league, the House cage opener has been postponed until tomorrow, Adolph W. Samborski, Director of Intramural Athletics, announced last night. The nine teams which compose the circuit will compete until January...
Born in Rock Springs, Wyo. in 1900, Florabel roughed out a semi-frontier childhood with ten brothers and sisters. After graduation from the University of Washington, she tried schoolteaching, dropped it for reporting. The newspaper circuit took her to the Chicago Herald-Examiner, the now extinct San Francisco Journal, the tabloid New York Daily News, then back to Los Angeles...