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West Virginia knocked over Long Island University, last year's winner and this year's favorite, in the first round. Meantime Omaha's Jesuit-run Creighton University had eliminated the giant skygacks of West Texas State (TIME, Feb. 16) and were in turn eliminated by Coach Uncle Ed Diddle's Western Kentucky State boys, who had already put out the smart metropolitan champs from the City College of New York. Seven of the eight games in the tournament were upsets...
...modern writers with a poetic expression coming as near the lyric as the static quality of intellectual poetry will permit. This same bound lyricism, gaining in immediacy and intellectual intenseness what it loses in fluid song, characterizes all the better poems of the issue. Helen Wieselburg's "Starway," and Creighton Gilbert's "War Poem" again display the advantages as well as the price of the poet's surrender of impersonal distance, while the works of Arthur Blair and Norman Macleod show the inevitable failure of the static poetic effect when applied to less immediate non-intellectual topics which cannot sustain...
Defending America-Creighton Peet...
...wild & woolly West Texas State, tallest team in the U.S., which won 29 out of its 35 scheduled games last year; Southern California, favorite to win this year's Pacific Coast Conference championship; Colorado University, featuring Bob Doll, a 6 ft. 5 in. center; Wyoming, Big Seven champions; Creighton, Missouri Valley champions; Notre Dame; Washington; Rice; Oregon State (whose basketball teams are nearly as good as their football teams...
...morning of Halloween, a grizzled old (73) French-Canadian prospector named Francois Xavier Gallant borrowed a friend's automobile, drove to Creighton (pop. 2,000), got busy with ax and compass. As the sun went down, he walked into the recorder's office, registered eight mining claims to 320 acres of land. Part of it was dotted with Creighton houses...