Word: jacks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Columbia sophomore Chet Forte was the top scorer of the 1955 Ivy Basketball League season, with 296 points and an average of 21.1 per game. He outscored Jack Sheehy of Cornell and Bart Leach of Penn with 20.7 and 18.6 points per game respectively, according to statistics released yesterday...
Wrote he: "For three-quarters of a century it has been my fate to watch . . . a long string of friends . . . traveling to their graves by the alcoholic highway: Jack London, George Sterling, Sinclair Lewis, Edna Millay, Theodore Dreiser, W. E. Woodward, F. P. Dunne (Mr. Dooley), Horace Liveright, Eugene Debs, Douglas Fairbanks, Eugene O'Neill, Sherwood Anderson, Klaus Mann." And, lamented Sinclair, the roster of hard drinkers among the illustrious he knew through letters or friends was even longer. Among those departed: "Stephen Crane, James Whitcomb Riley, Heywood Broun, Edgar Lee Masters, Edwin A. Robinson, Isadora Duncan, Thomas Wolfe...
...Funnyman Jack Paar appraised Songstress Betty Clooney (sister of Rosemary) with a businesslike eye last week and regretfully decided to drop her from his CBS-TV Morning Show. In her place he hired blonde Edith Adams, probably no better at singing than Betty. Why did he do it? Explained Paar: "We're on the air 15 hours a week, mostly without script, so everyone has to double in brass. Edith Adams can do any dialect, sing in Italian, German and French, and mimic personalities from Louis Armstrong to Marilyn Monroe. What's more, she's full...
...Jack Wardrop of Michigan set a meet record to win the event in 2:04.2. Konno's time was 2:04.2, Woolsey did a 2:08.1, and Jorgensen a 2:09 flat. The Oklahomans were 1.7 and 2.7 seconds slower...
...Crimson's Dave Hawkins was scratched from this relay and the medley tomorrow because it was erroneously feared that he had the mumps. His teammate Jack Edwards was also out, with sinus trouble. Hawkins will be able to swim the butterfly tomorrow, however...