Word: hoops
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...will see a new man in the Varsity lineup in the person of big Don Swegan of the NROTC. Though he played forward last year for a strong Bowdoin Wallace team, Swegan has been sidelined till now by the recurrence of an old football injury. He saw his first hoop practice yesterday afternoon, but the chances are good that he will see plenty of action tomorrow...
...wartime Government of Premier Josef Franz Hoop, rocklike conservative, had dutifully resigned. Named new Premier last week was Dr. Alexander Frick, rocklike conservative. His program: extended socialization. In his clifftop castle Prince Francis Joseph II approved the switch...
Along Came Jones (International-RKO Radio), Gary Cooper's first effort as a producer, is also his first Western since The Westerner (1940). The result turns out to be something like watching a grown man roll a hoop. Dyed-in-the-wool Cooper fans, and Western fans, may find the whole thing a little painful. But people who take neither Cooper nor Westerns seriously may be agreeably entertained...
Early in the week, Baltimore began to sweat and shake with its annual seven-day fever over a horse race. Despite a change in jockeys and a jinx, the horse causing the highest rise in temperatures was Hoop Jr., a satchel-headed bay that won an easy six-length triumph at Louisville. There was no standout challenger until midweek, when Pavot turned in a sensational 1:59⅓workout (for a mile and three-sixteenths). By Saturday, 30,000 fans who shoved into Pimlico for the Preakness had just about forgotten that there were seven other entries...
Forgetting to quit, once he had been whipped to the front, was a lazy-looking 12-to-1 shot called Polynesian. He was even pulling away at the end of his upset $66,170 race. Hoop Jr., three times second in three previous races over the Baltimore track, finished second and lame- 0 and 1 half lengths back. Far off last year's championship form (and his workout), Pavot ran an unexciting fifth, helped to make the feverish search for a three-year-old champion even harder...