Word: elmer
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About all that has changed in the Lion five in the past year is that center Elmer Love took the year off and the sophomore trio of Alton Byrd, Ricky Free and Juan Mitchell are now juniors. Free is the team's leading scorer and rebounder, even though he occasionally suits up at guard. Byrd, his fellow all-Ivy teammate, will probably shatter Columbia's career assist record against Harvard, as he is now 11 shy of the mark set by Elliot Wolfe...
Chancellor, when he becomes a commentator, aspires to be outspoken-to present a brief as a lawyer would and end "by making a good point." He recalls the bolder broadcasts of Elmer Davis and Edward R. Murrow, and wonders why radio seems to permit freer comment than television. But were the old ones really bolder? Salant doubts it. Murrow, he says, insisted on a fairness and objectivity clause in his contract; he departed only once from this self-imposed standard, when he persuaded CBS's top brass to let him make his famous televised attack on Senator Joseph McCarthy...
Columbia should threaten for the Ivy title once again as Tom Penders has Ricky Free, Juan "the Enforcer" Mitchell, and 5-ft., 8-in. assist kingpin Alton Byrd back in uniform. Center Elmer Love decided to take the year off and will be replaced by Ed Shockley, who spent last season recovering from leg surgery for varicose veins...
...Elmer Seaberg Guilford, Conn...
...Kupka, 36, likens the town's behavior to that of a family with a terminally ill patient: "First there's denial; then anger, depression, hostility; then bargaining; and finally acceptance." In Limbo. Silver Bay's children have responded with anger and disruptiveness. Says Assistant School Superintendent Elmer Frahm, 45: "We see many more students smoking, drinking, using drugs, and there's a lot more vandalism too." The Reserve Mining case has been hanging over Silver Bay for eight years. Says Mayor Melvin Koepke, a machinist at Reserve's $350 million lakeside plant...