Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...unlikely. An exhibition baseball team usually travels to the Olympic games and in 1948 there may be some other nations to play it. If there are and the executive committee decides to send one, the players would be picked individually through regional tryouts. America always wins the Olympic basketball crown by a top-heavy margin, but apparently Europe wants to try again this year and a team will be sent probably picked from the squads who make the finals of the New York Garden tournaments this winter...
Action in the chase after the crown now held by Bucky Harrison's Kirkland House gridders will keep up at a furious pace with two more games scheduled for tomorrow afternoon. Lowell House will meet the defending champs in one tilt of the afternoon's twin bill and Winthrop will round out the week's schedule against Leverett House's rapid rabbits...
Norway's Crown Princess Martha, 46, was getting along fine after an operation for chronic back strain, at Boston's Massachusetts General Hospital...
...chubby young Prince of the August Succession and Enlightened Benevolence, it had been a most enlightening year. Last week, pleased with his son's progress, the Emperor of Japan rehired Crown Prince Akihito's U.S. tutor for another year, at a raise in salary. Mrs. Elizabeth Gray Vining, a Quaker lady from Philadelphia, had well earned her $2,000 and keep...
...mechanical shots. He won the gallery's fancy by unexpectedly copping the first two sets from Champion Jake Kramer, whose play was incredibly sloppy. Then King Jake got down to business, and with a fine series of service aces, drop-shots and volleys managed to keep his crown, so that he can profitably quit it (he is about to turn pro). The score: 4-6, 2-6, 6-1, 6-0, 6-3. When Kramer took a bow-unsmiling, grey-faced and relieved-he got a thin ripple of applause. When Parker bowed, the ovation lasted more than...