Word: cuff
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rugged transfer student, Ed Cuff, who terrorized the House league last winter, will fill one of the forward posts. Formerly a student at Holy Cross, Cuff has served a term in the Army, where he picked up the rough, driving style of play that is his forte. Wilson has smoothed our Cuff's brawling methods, and he feels that the 6 ft., 3 in. junior will be the team's offensive mainstay. Cuff is particularly effective with his back to the basket...
What may hurt the team severely is a lack of cohesiveness. Cuff may be rusty after a two-year layoff from organized competition, and Bry Danner is, after all, only a sophomore, and it will take a while for him to accustom himself to the faster varsity brand of basketball. Bowditch, at guard, must learn the nuances of a new position, and Donohue will not have the complementary services of George Harrington this winter...
...dropped a scrimmage to the Providence Friars, 84 to 54, last Saturday. Of course, the Friars, led by the meteoric Johnny Egan, were ninth in the nation in pre-season ratings, but the 30-point margin was still ominous. Two bright lights for the Crimson, however, were Loser and Cuff...
...ease of getting nice things on the cuff first became plain to him when he got a limited credit card issued by the Chase Manhattan Bank. It permitted him to charge up to $300 in New York stores, pay it back at the rate of $25 a month. Last August he overdrew by $73, and the bank put a stop on further debt. Meanwhile, with his Chase card as a recommendation, Miraglia applied to the Diners' Club, American Express and Conrad Hilton's Carte Blanche for good-anywhere credit cards. Diners' and American Express turned him down...
...Pasternak listened to a performance by the New York Philharmonic Orchestra. Earlier in the day, Conductor Leonard Bernstein had led the players in passages from Aaron Copland's suite, Billy the Kid, and Dmitry Shostakovich's Symphony No. 7, finding in the two compositions an off-the-cuff evidence that Russian and U.S. cultures share a similar sense of humor and a "touching naivete" and frankness, "although our political differences do not always allow it." In a dramatic last concert ending their 20-day Russian tour...