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...Backyard Hoop. A veteran of professional baseball and basketball, Father Sime has always felt a drive to teach his son his own driving urge to excel in sports. As soon as young Dave could handle a basketball there was a backyard hoop. "When I was five," he recalls, "Dad had me out hitting baseballs. Dad always told me to run faster, throw harder, hit farther. He never has been completely satisfied...
Even a fire could not stop Anita Racioppi from winning the 61st annual senior Hoop Race at Wellesley early Saturday morning. With a Fathers Day crowd of 1,000 watching, Anita swept down Tower Court Hill ahead of 200 classmates, all attired in caps and gowns. She is president of the Student Athletic Association...
Some 200 large-sized hoops, closely followed by some 200 girls in caps and gowns and Bermuda shorts, were seen rolling across the Wellesley campus at about 7:30 a.m. today. The occasion was the annual senior Hoop Race, in which the winner is traditionally the first member of her class to get married, and several of the losers--notably, disguised Harvard students--are traditionally thrown into the lake for their pains...
...honey-blonde hair and emerald eyes of Marilyn Smuin, 19, a sophomore at Pasadena City College, plus her wellrounded personality (bust and hips 35 in., waist 25 in.), won her the throne as Queen of the Roses (66th annual tournament), and all the New Year's Day hoop-te-do attending the big event, the Rose Bowl football game...
Enter the villain: the rich boy's big brother (Humphrey Bogart). who wants junior to merge with a sugar king's daughter so that he, Bogart, can make her father jump through the wedding hoop in a business deal. Audrey, however, is flanking his maneuver. After a hasty inspection of her flank, Bogart determines to turn it, and on that line the rest of the plot is fought...