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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Star from the Start. Ever since he entered the N.B.A. off the campus of Louisiana State University in 1954, the 6-ft. gin. Pettit has been a star. He has never been lower than fourth in the league scoring race, won it in the 1955-56 season, might have repeated in the past two years had he not been handicapped by a broken hand and arm fracture (he finished second in 1956-57, third last season). Key to Pettit's prowess is a one-handed jump shot that he fires from anywhere within basket range the moment...
...Eastern Division champion Boston Celtics, highest scoring outfit in the N.B.A. (average: 116.1 a game), went on a tear at Boston Garden against the Minneapolis Lakers, won 173 to 139-highest score ever made in a league basketball game...
...better. The patient switched again-to primitivism. Dr. Bontzolakis was delighted. But two years later the man returned in worse shape than before, with blood pressure up again. What had happened? He had backslid through expressionism to abstractions, had quit his medicine, and was painting wilder canvases than ever...
...Louis morning Globe-Democrat has been wavering along between the red and the black ever since Publisher Samuel I. Newhouse added it to his chain in 1955 for $6,250,000. Up against the city's other -and dominant-newspaper, the profitable, Democratic evening Post-Dispatch, the Republican Globe managed to gain some ground (the Globe's circulation of 332,823 is up 40,000 from 1955; the Post's 380,495 is down 7,000), but it never could spin into the solid black. Last week, while his paper was shut down by an American Newspaper...
...page editor to Cuba to cover the aftermath of the revolution. As Scott's fireworks crackled and city-room morale soared, Publisher Don Cromie scoffed at the doubters who wondered if a columnist could run a newspaper, and said: "This may be the greatest idea I'll ever have...