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U.C.L.A.'s defense will probably be a bigger problem for Princeton than Good rich's shooting. But the Tigers' ball-handling has improved a great deal since the Michigan debacle, and if things get too bad, Coach Bill van Breda Kolff can al-sides, Providence had one of the nation's best defensive teams, and look what Princeton did to them...
Bradley is certainly more than a figment of a good press agent. He connected on 11 of 22 shots; his passing and ball-handling were fantastic. In fact, they're probably too good--Tiger Coach Bill van Breda Kolff must wish that Bradley would shoot more and feed off less to his lacklustre teammates...
...debatable call deflated Princeton's rally, and Harvard opened the lead to 72-00 in short order, then sailed home. Van Breda Kolff conceded defeat with two minutes to play by removing Bradley, and the Crimson closed the game using its second team, as Princeton shaved the margin to six points...
...When Dr. Willem J. Kolff visited Boston in 1947 with the design for an artificial kidney to filter waste products from the blood, he had no idea that he was laying the foundation for today's flurry of kidney transplants...
...George W. Thorn, the Brigham's physician in chief, and Surgeon Carl W. Walter modified Kolff's early model, which he had built in secret during the Nazi occupation of The Netherlands; and for patients whose kidney failure was only temporary, the contraption was a lifesaver. But it could not keep alive those whose kidneys had failed permanently. In 1951, in a desperate effort to save these patients, Brigham surgeons decided to go ahead and transplant kidneys without waiting for the mysteries of immunity to be dispelled. But all those "unprotected"' transplants eventually failed...