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...Columbia University Lions, No. 4 in U.S. ranking, have been one of the surprise basketball teams of the year. In a hard-fought 54-44 victory over Cornell at Ithaca last week, the Lions won their 15th game in a row this season, their 24th straight over two seasons. That kept them on top of the Eastern Intercollegiate (Ivy) League and the only undefeated major team in the country...
...action was fast and hard-fought, especially in the second half when Thayer stole the ball repeatedly to close the gap. Holworthy, which couldn't seem to miss any shots before the intermission, was hard put to hold its narrowing lead...
After covering the hard-fought capture of Kimpo airfield last week, TIME-LIFE Correspondent James Bell headed back for Inchon to file his story. With him in a jeep were John Davies of the Newark News and Lachie McDonald of the London Daily Mail. As Bell later reported, "We were all quite happy to have survived the rather horrid night and three hours of North Korean banzai charges. The driver proceeded along the road to Inchon very carefully. One of us remarked how pleasant it was to be riding with a careful driver after the numerous 'army cowboys...
Rushed to Korea after the Reds launched their invasion, Dean led his division in hard-fought delaying actions from the Han River to Taejon...
PITTSFIELD, May 31--Captain Sandy Calbouts called "head, and the Crimson polo team won a hard-fought match on the loss of a coin. The loss was decided on late today, when neither team was able to break a 4 to 4 lie during two sudden-death five-minute overtime periods...