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PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 20--At least one new franchise application, problems presented by the admission of Chicago, and the shaky status of the Minneapolis club will confront the National Basketball Association at its annual meeting tomorrow.
But the league owners also will hear from Len Corbosiero who plans to ask for a franchise for the Los Angeles Jets. The league also must reckon with the possibility that owner Bob Short may want to switch the Minneapolis club to another locale.
In rejecting feelers from the ten-man syndicate that obtained a Boston franchise in the new American Football League, the Corporation, according to Whitlock, acted to keep the Harvard name free from association with professional athletics.
A $100 Wreath. In the thunderous heyday of Prohibition gangsterism, Roger the Terrible was the jaunty cockalorum of northwest Cook County. After leasing a few trucks to rumrunners, he abandoned a $50,000-a-year automobile business for bootlegging-and thereupon set in motion a relentless procession of events that...
Seldom in the history of basketball had so much interest been generated in a man-to-man battle. Each is tall as a ceiling, agile as a mongoose. Boston's Bill Russell (6 ft. 10 in., 220 lbs.) has faster reactions and more experience, is going into his fourth...