Word: gardenful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Colonel Bodley's letter re Eton's whipping block [TIME, Jan. 24], there are a few reminders of a visit to Eton . . . The whipping block . . . had the birch rod standing beside it looking like a broom for sweeping garden leaves, but with a very stout handle. My wife said: "That wouldn't hurt much." The reply was "Madam-I would like you to remember there's nothing between the boy and the birch...
...weeks, Willie trained in a Hartford gym, while his neighbors piled in to watch. Last week, some 6,500 Connecticut fans followed him to Manhattan by auto and special trains, helped fill Madison Square Garden for a prizefight for the first time in three years...
...many years as anyone cares to remember, the major social athletic event of the winte season has been the Harvard Dartmouth hockey game. Annually at one of the hippodromes of the Boston Garden Areas Corporation, some 5,000 loyal alumni of the two institutions assemble to cheer on their respective squads and swap insluts among themselves...
Because of such players as George Mikan, pro basketball is gradually taking on a big-league glow. The Basketball Association of America is a twelve-city circuit, playing to enthusiastic crowds from Manhattan's Madison Square Garden to St. Louis' Arena. Its stars get paid as much as $17,500 for a 20-week season. Like Mikan, most of the big-name basketball pros come out of topflight collegiate ranks...
Radcliffe girls will join groups from ten women's colleges at Boston Arena and Garden events Tuesday night through Sunday, February 27, to hand out red hearts for the New England Heart Association's fund drive...