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Wilt's home-town rooters were more than satisfied. The asparagus stalk they used to know has developed into an extraordinarily graceful giant. When his slow-starting teammates let St. Joseph's sneak into a first-half lead (26-23), Wilt took command, collected passes from all over the court, and showed his familiar skill at dunking scores. On defense, his long arms wove a screen in front of St. Joseph's basket. With time to regain their poise before the Wilt-worshiping crowd, Wilt's teammates turned to, added 35 points to Wilt...
...other hand, most of the papers are enthusiastic home-town boosters, campaign busily for local improvements, sponsor dozens of community enterprises. In keeping with this sense of community responsibility-and to perpetuate his newspapers-Publisher Gannett in 1935 gave two-thirds of his Gannett Co. common stock to a philanthropic foundation administered by his executives...
Late in the rain-drenched game at Detroit's Briggs Stadium, the mud-daubed players blended into a black, slithering mess. Numbers disappeared, so did faces. Shivering spectators could barely tell one of the home-town Lions from an invading Green Bay Packer. But by then the Lions had splashed to the game's single, spectacular touchdown, booted three field goals, scored a safety, and had given up only two field goals in return. Their defensive team showed no signs of permitting the Packers to escape from an 18-6 defeat. And by then, no one needed...
...Murphy's Outhouse. From Southern California's sprawling super-metropolis to the exurbs of New Jersey and Long Island, the middleweights give readers a commodity that increasingly defies the resources of the big-city daily: intensive home-town coverage plus an increasingly sophisticated coverage of world affairs. Now a giant among examples of the trend, Alicia Patterson's broadly curious, ad-fat Newsday (TIME. Sept. 13, 1954) has scooped 268,626 Long Island readers right out of the pants pockets of New York City's seven major dailies since 1940. Under the guns of Los Angeles...
Pick of the Quick. Angel of the Albright is a peppery Buffalo booster, Woolworth Heir and Banker Seymour H. Knox, who, back in the 1930s, captained his home-town East Aurora polo team in international matches. Putting up $100,000 in 1939 to launch the Contemporary Room, "Shorty" Knox, who had previously boasted little more than one lone Utrillo, was soon head over heels in love with modern art. In the last eleven years, Yaleman ('20) Knox has donated 75 paintings and sculptures, of which more than half are products of the current decade...