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...attend its year-long series of conferences and convocations. But in spite of its international prestige, it has never lost its early sense that the city is its "proper place," nor has it forgotten that its special character is largely a matter of location. It is an Ivy Leaguer minus the ivy, an ivory tower without ivory, a polyglot campus of brick and stone that still draws two-thirds of its undergraduates from a radius of less than 100 miles. Its bicentennial theme-"Man's right to knowledge and the free use thereof-is wide as the world...
FIRST BASEMAN BILL TERRY (195 votes). Gruff, outspoken Bill Terry, 19 years with the. New York Giants as player and manager (three penants), was the last National Leaguer to hit over .400 (.401 in 1930), and finally racked up his bat with a brilliant lifetime average of .341, fourth highest in modern baseball history, after Rogers Hornsby, Harry Heilmann and Babe Ruth. Gruffed Bill Terry, 55, now a well-heeled Jacksonville, Fla. Buick dealer: "I have nothing to say about...
...first World Series, the durable Rabbit hit .308 in a series for the St. Louis Cardinals. In 1923, he led all National League shortstops in fielding; nine .years later, at 39, he was still nimble enough to lead all second basemen. Finally, after 23 years as a major leaguer (with five clubs), the Rabbit, still playing baseball to the hilt, broke his leg sliding into home plate in a spring exhibition game and ended his active career...
Crimson captain Hal Gerry was the first Ivy Leaguer to finish in the IG4A championship cross country run at Van Cortlandt Park, N. Y., yesterday. Running 14th, he led the varsity to 12th place in team standings, three notches higher than last year...
...Yankees, but he was wild and the Yankees knocked him out of the game in the first inning with four runs (on three walks and two triples). By the fifth inning the Dodgers were beginning to straighten out the fastball pitching of Yankee Allie Reynolds, but old National Leaguer Johnny Sain marched in to replace Reynolds and silence the Dodgers while the Yankees piled up more runs. Score: Yankees, 9; Dodgers...