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...Shea, the superb dribbler, had never looked so good. Brennan and Barnhorst had forgotten all about their ailments, and both sides had forgotten all about the Y.M.C.A. way basketball used to be played. Players exchanged scowls and heated words; the referees broke up one fist fight only to have another threaten. At one point, the referee wanted to keep an N.Y.U. player from shooting a foul until the hooting stopped; the player grabbed the ball, glared at the crowd, and sank one. In the final five minutes, harassed N.Y.U. lost its head completely. When the game ended, 51 personal fouls...
...spite of unexpected Harvard aggressiveness and Jack Lavalle's monumental 43 saves, the Big Green kept control of the situation until it had amassed a 7 to 2 lead. At this point the smouldering violence responsible for 18 penalties burst into a fist fight between Dave Abbot and Whitey Campbell...
Like a doctor, the medicine man prescribes different ceremonials for different diseases. The ceremonials, lasting several days, are built around sacred chants and the making of sand pictures. The medicine man "paints" by trickling the pigments onto sand from his fist, with hairline precision; he lets the patient's family help out with the easy parts. Chanting ecstatically, the medicine man touches the pictured powers and then touches the patient, transferring a little of their strength to him. To be healed internally as well, the patient swallows a little of the painting in herb tea. Leaving a sand painting...
...biggest news came from New Hampshire. A group of leading Republicans held a draft-Eisenhower rally in Manchester, posed for pictures giving a clenched-fist cheer for Ike, and pledged themselves to enter a full slate of Eisenhower candidates (against Dewey and Stassen) in the state's March 9 preferential primary. The pledge had the blessing of New Hampshire's peppery Senator Charles W. Tobey. Ike's blessing was not legally required. The eight New Hampshire delegates would cut little ice at the Republican convention, but a smashing victory in this primary, the nation's first...
...young blonde who had a perfume shop near the Trocadero told a reporter that her hat had cost 28,000 francs ($235) at Lanvin's. She sat, vibrating with anger, until a speaker mentioned Schuman's Finance Minister René Mayer, whereupon she stood up, brandished her fist, and shrieked: "That man is an idiot! Let's have some action...