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Wellesley athletes took a wary look at the troubled skies last night, uttered a few choice but lady-like oaths at the weatherman, and retired to their respective training tables for a last minute tune-up in preparation for Saturday's hoop race...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wellesley Hoops Set to Roll | 4/30/1948 | See Source »

...mahogany-colored wonder horse, wanned up for the Kentucky Derby by winning Havre de Grace's $25,000 Chesapeake Stakes. On his back was Eddie Arcaro, the nation's No. 1 jockey, who hoped Citation would be his fourth Derby winner. The others: Lawrin (1938), Whirlaway (1941), Hoop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Winning Ways | 4/26/1948 | See Source »

Hoopee. Collapsible plastic hoops that can be slipped into full-skirted evening dresses to turn them into hoop skirts will go on sale soon in Atlanta department stores. The name: "Bell o' the Ball." The price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Facts & Figures, Mar. 8, 1948 | 3/8/1948 | See Source »

...Nelson, who copped scoring honors for the day, poured 12 points through the hoop for the losing Puritans, all during the first half...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dudley, Bellboys Win House Tilts | 2/28/1948 | See Source »

...star of the team was towering (6 ft., 8 in.) Center Ed Macauley. He has a deadly eye and a soft southpaw shot that helped him pile up 395 points last season. His teammates, with some reason, call him Easy Ed. Once, when he was gauging the hoop on a crucial foul shot, an opponent tried to throw him off by yelling, "Hey, Ed, your shoe's untied." Without taking his eye from the basket, Macauley drawled: "You tie it for me, Junior, while I make this point." Then he dropped the ball neatly through the hoop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Hot Shots | 1/12/1948 | See Source »

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