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...world tree has become passe. Ordinarily, we could point to the opening of Lincoln Downs as a valid harbinger, but it's too late now--the nags have been running for a week and Clocker Spanielle has already lost his button-down shirt. Wellesley hasn't held its Hoop race and Radcliffe hasn't discarded its knee...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Radcliffe Rejects 'The Stringbean Silhouette' | 3/20/1953 | See Source »

...noisy seconds Saturday night in the Block-house, Yale's Jim Places stood a little past the foul circle with a basketball. Then, with two seconds left, teammate Spence Schnaitter ran over and tapped him. Places awakened, shot the ball, the buzzer went off, the ball went through the hoop. The Elis went wild, and everyone else just stood there...

Author: By David L. Halberstam, | Title: Eli Team Trips Crimson Five, 70-68 | 3/9/1953 | See Source »

Lowell was third in the House hoop league with a 9-5 record. Eliot (8-6) was fourth, Winthrop (7-7) fifth, Adams and Leverett (each 5-9) knotted for sixth, and Dudley (2-12) placed last...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: On the House | 3/3/1953 | See Source »

...other hoop tests, Dunster edged out Lowell, 36 to 35, dropping the losers out of the top spot in the A league. The Funster B five smacked the Bellboys, 51 to 36, to move into the circuit lead...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: On the House | 2/20/1953 | See Source »

...Hoop-dee-Doo." After his announcement last February, the black-haired young (44) seventh-term Congressman began stumping the state on an eight-speech-a-day schedule. His "principal issue" was dramatized in a song to the tune of Hoop-dee-doo, which proclaimed: "Go with Gore-Albert Gore. He's wise and able and he's just forty-four . . ." Tennessee politicians and pundits began to say he would beat McKellar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TENNESSEE: 44 v. 83 | 8/11/1952 | See Source »

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