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Philadelphia won last year, but it took a lot of luck and a very fast start. Curt Simmons is gone, and Bob Miller and Bubba Church are question marks. Robin Roberts, Jim Konstanty, and Ken Heintzelmen give them a strong enough staff to make up for a weak-hitting infield...
...Section F basketball team defeated Section A 54 to 45, yesterday night to take the Business School basketball title. Section F, which led all the way, was paced by Bill Henry with 17 points, while Cliff Crosby tossed in 24 for the losers. Curt Foster scored 12 for the victors to follow Henry...
...third year, looking for a place to live, he called at a house with a room for rent and was greeted by the landlady's daughter. He rented the room and, 15 months later, married the daughter-Memphis-born Myrtle England. From papa Di Salle came a curt pronouncement: if Mike was old enough to get married, he was old enough to support himself...
...handful of air-power apostles, including a less than voluble Lieut. General Curtis E. LeMay. LeMay's main and somewhat irrelevant point was that the major U.S. blow should be "by strategic bombing." Would he vote for the Wherry resolution? "I don't know," said abrupt Curt LeMay, whose political interests are no wider than the flight deck...
Notified that U.S. diplomats in Hungary were restricted to an 18-mile zone around Budapest, the State Department dispatched a curt note: "Effective immediately, members of the Hungarian diplomatic mission in the United States . . . are prohibited from staying "or traveling beyond a specified area except by express permission . . . The designated area is fixed at a distance of 18 miles from the White House, Washington...