Word: drakes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...varsity basketball team unveiled a new offense last night in a scrimmage with the University of Connecticut. Using snatches of the Drake shuffle and Pete Newell's California attack, coach Floyd Wilson's five looked surprisingly good for so early in the season, nearly matching the Huskies in points during regulation time...
Actually, nobody present at the I.A.B. last night was prepared to explain the Drake shuffle and Newell's variation, but there was a difference. Basically, the plan puts one man close to the basket, just outside the foul line, and stations one player on each sideline and two in the backcourt. But there is great flexibility, and players exchange positions quickly and often...
...wished. He was as rich as Loewe was poor. But he was working as a radio scriptwriter on "a schedule so tight," he remembers, "that it would only work if I didn't sleep on Monday nights." He wrote daily sketches for Celeste Holm and Alfred Drake, material for Victor Borge and Hildegarde, turned out great hunks of audiopageantry for Philco Hall of Fame and Cavalcade of America, all the while keeping dark the personal secret that he was an heir to the loverly fortune that his father (once an Atlantic City dentist) and uncles had built up by converting...
...Bell Telephone Hour (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). Burgess Meredith leads a musical commemoration of Veterans Day. His guests: Alfred Drake, Genevieve, Gisele MacKenzie and the U.S. Military Academy Glee Club. Color...
...Judas Priest!" Up in the stands in seat 18, row 10, entrance 5 was a short, bald track coach who knew better than any other man just how much the 1,500 meters would cost Johnson and Yang. U.C.L.A.'s Ducky Drake had trained them both. For two days he had alternately worried about Johnson ("He's tense. Loosen up, Ray. Loosen up! Relax"), and exhorted Yang ("Judas priest! Get that blasted head down on that high jump"). Drake guessed that Johnson would forget about winning the 1,500 meters, try simply to stick close enough to Yang...