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...audience is transported to an era most people know only from scratchy records, the age of the great blues singers: Bessie Smith, Billie Holiday, and, of course, Alberta Hunter. So small and fragile that she looks as if she would be tossed head over heels by the giant hoop earrings she always wears, Hunter never belts out a song. Instead, she unwraps it, slowly and artfully. Her voice is deeper and more mellow than it was 50 years ago, not rough but grainy and textured. It is wool rather than silk and as warm and comfortable as Grandmother...
Bradley's return to Harvard provoked mostly barl memories from the Princeton alum about-his trips to the IAB to play the Crimson hoop squad. Although he liked the building and the Tigers won all three games he played there, all Bradley remembers about Harvard is that he hurt his ankle badly in the last game...
...jock." "You do not make it in the Congress on the are of your jump shot but only with a mixture of substance and personality," he explained. But Bradley said he has gotten to the point where people respect him as much for his legislative ability as for his hoop skills...
...Harvard's direction. A key running point came midway through the second stanza, when center Elaine Holpuch Blocked an Indian shot into the hands of freshman forward Lori Stewart, who started the break to Co-Captain Frenesa Hall. The stock senior guard promptly outmaneuvered three Indians under the hoop, and gave Harvard a 40-39 lead--an edge preserved until the final buzzer...
Jiangsu isn't a variant of Chow Mein, but the second-best hoop squad in the People's Republic of China, which beat a visiting Harvard team...