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Dashing down the basketball court, dribbling the ball past the defense, the Boston Celtics' Bob Cousy raced toward the basket. In the midst of a mid-air leap he palmed the ball in his ham-sized right hand, faked a pass, swung the ball behind his back into his left hand, then took his shot toward the basket-all before his feet touched the floor. The ball dropped through without even touching the rim, and the crowd of 13,837 in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden broke into cheers. Most of them had come to watch Cousy perform...
...railway waiting room. His money running out, he got to thinking of the cheap London district he was raised in, before he had dreams of nobility. He put an ad in the paper: "Man of title, but lacking means, seeks respectable furnished accommodation (two rooms) in East Ham for self and wife...
Forewarned, Forearmed. In Oklahoma City, after hiring an ambulance with two attendants. Attorney Charles Ham Jr. rode in it to his ex-wife's home, angrily told her gentleman friend, "One of us is going to ride to the hospital," after a short fist fight was carried to the ambulance and driven to the hospital...
After two months in Europe, General Robert L. Spragins, the division commander, was invalided back home with arthritis, and Dean took over. By that time his front-line daring was the talk of his sector of the Western front, and Corps Commander "Ham" Haislip was moved to warn his daring general: "Dammit, Dean, stay off the front lines!" Dean's exploits in battle won him a D.S.C., D.S.M. and a Bronze Star...
Sweeping all five contests, the Varsity B Reds crushed Lincolns Inn. Ted Rose, At Stone, Landon Thomas, Ham Forster, and Eliot Hawkins comprised the victorious squad...