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...since they were just a basketball team, they had to compete on even terms with a group of college seniors with the deadliest assortment of shots that the Garden crowd had ever seen. The Globetrotters tried very hard. Their "ringer." Sweetwater Clifton, who had just finished the season with the New York Knickerbockers, scored 13 points, and Charlie Primas made 15, but the College All-Stars easily...
...Globetrotters used to have a strangle-hold on all the good Negro basketball players, but the example of Clifton may provide a shadow of the future. He used to be a Globetrotter, but now is a regular in the NBA. The two Negroes on the All-Stars, Aruelle and Ed Fleming, both will be grabbed by the NBA, not the Globetrotters. The material is thinning and Monday's game may have been a sign of bad times to come for the illustrious Globetrotters...
Conversation (Sat. 8 p.m., NBC). The world's ten best novels, discussed by John Mason Brown, Jacques Barzun, Bennett Cerf, Clifton Fadiman...
...highly partisan group of about 25 Puritan students and tutors stood at the finish line to cheer in their winning team. In the first race, the 150-yard medley relay, Bob Eakin Ed Ginsburg, and Roger Clifton won handily in the time of 1:26.6. Clifton showed his durability when he later took first in the 50-yard freestyle in 25.4 seconds, while teammate Dave Whitman took second...
...Play. In Cape Girardeau, Mo., arrested for running through a stop sign, Dr. Paul G. Wolff followed the police car to headquarters, paid a $7.50 fine, then swore out a complaint charging Sergeant Clifton Bess with speeding...