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Bradley, the first Ivy Leaguer to make an Olympic team for many years, was one of seven collegians named to the squad. USLA's Walt Hazzard, Duke's Jeff Mullins, Joe Caldwell of Arizona State, Jim Barnes of Texas Western, Mel Counts of Oregon State and Lucius Jackson of little Pan American College joined five AAU players on the team...
Died. William Martin ("Willie") Heston, 85, oldtime grid star at the University of Michigan, a halfback who scored 92 touchdowns from 1901 to 1904, led the unbeaten Wolverines to 42 victories, and in the days when Harvard and Yale ruled the roost, became the first non-Ivy Leaguer to make All-America; of kidney disease; in Traverse City, Mich...
...fighting continued, Jagan appointed his wife, Chicago-born Janet Rosenberg, a onetime Young Communist Leaguer and the colony's most controversial woman, to be Minister of Home Affairs, making her, in effect, British Guiana's top cop. Neither Janet nor her police have been able to quiet things. All that prevents outright racist civil war is the presence of 500 British troops that Jagan called upon to protect his tottering regime...
Combs saved the day, however, with a Texas Leaguer, advancing to second when left-hander Joyce walked Bilodeau. Terry Bartolet next smashed a hard grounder at the Holy Cross third-bagger, who let it get through him. Combs scored, Bilodeau went to third, and Bartolet made it to second. Tom Stephenson struck out on three straight curves and Gilmor was out short-to-first to end the inning and the Crimson's scoring...
Like a Tiger. Dowdy and bespectacled, her greying hair askew, Janet Rosenberg Jagan looks more like a suburban matron than an impassioned leftist in a disturbed colony of 600,000 people on South America's northeast coast. But she was a fire brand Young Communist Leaguer in Chicago long before Cheddi came on the scene to study dentistry at Northwestern in the late 19305. She hit it off with the ever-smiling East Indian, and when they returned as a married couple to British Guiana, Cheddi was making angry speeches condemning foreign "oppressors" and spouting the Marxist line. Wherever...