Word: gardens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Garden District comprises two Tennessee Williams plays laid in New Orleans. Something Unspoken, dealing with an uppity society woman and her secretary-companion, is a warm-up piece that leaves the spectator cold. Suddenly Last Summer is a vivid display of Williams' unique virtues and persisting excesses. A kind of psychological suspense piece, it works backward from the knowledge of a self-luxuriating "poet's" death to the nature of it. His rich, ruthless mother had long shared her son's dubious traveled life, but when she had a slight stroke, he took a young girl cousin...
...boys at Madison Square Garden waited to be shown, for sophomore basketball flashes too often became fumbling schoolboys on their first trip to Manhattan's big time. When he loped out on the Garden's floor last week, the University of Cincinnati's Oscar ("Big O") Robertson needed a big night to show the skeptics he could play in the big league...
Robertson showed them the biggest night, pro or amateur, in the history of Garden basketball. Floating through the defense of Seton Hall, the lithe, 6-ft. 4½-in. Negro from Indianapolis did everything right. He drove for layups, hooked from the foul line, jump-shot with either hand. He picked off rebounds, intercepted passes, set up teammates. When the Big O was done, Cincinnati had drubbed Seton Hall, 118-54, and the new boy in town had 56 points, a Garden record...
Joel Landau, French Anderson, and a quartet of relay runners were the most nearly successful of some twenty Crimson trackmen who participated in the 32nd annual Knights of Columbus games at the Boston Garden Saturday night...
Gordon got off to a slow start and was last as the runners swung into the first turn. On the narrow Garden track, this is a nearly hopeless handicap, especially in the shorter races...