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...Another claimant to the national championship is the National Invitation College Tournament, inaugurated three years ago by the New York Basketball Writers Association. Last fortnight, when six of the country's first-raters competed in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden, the University of Colorado, Big Seven champions for the past three years, proved best, defeating Duquesne in the last round...
...Tokyo, members of the Japanese Whiskers Club held their semi-annual meeting, toasted Naosaburo Kato (left, in cut), claimant to the title of Longest Beard in the Orient...
...into water hazards ("unfair"). They get 50 to 100 claims a year for balls lost in ordinary play, and they pay these "unfair" claims as well as fair claims unless they suspect fraud. Some companies, however, get so mad about "unfair" claims that they will not renew a claimant's policy...
...Willis Sharpe Kilmer's Nedayr: the $35,000 Arlington. Classic (for three-year-old thoroughbreds); defeating among others the co-favorites, Stagehand and Menow; at Chicago's Arlington Park. By his victory, Nedayr, a 14-to-1 shot, became the latest claimant to the evanescent three-year-old championship...
...nine children during the ten-year period, split the money between them, received checks for $100,000 each. Out of this one mother must return to the Toronto Relief Administration $5,696 another $2,314, loaned during the tough-going days. With two mothers the judges had difficulty. One claimant had given birth to three stillborn children. Five of another woman's children were not products of wedlock. To these two maternal runners-up went $12,500 each as consolation prizes to insure against further litigation. Still left in the Millar till were assets worth about $75,000, which...