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...condemn kids for one mistake in a lifetime?" said Adolph Rupp, Kentucky basketball coach, to Chicago's Quarterback Club last week. "Let's be more lenient toward them." Four days later the year's biggest basketball scandal exploded right in Coach Rupp's own backyard. The boys who admitted taking bribes to shave points: Alex Groza and Ralph Beard, Kentucky's 1947-49 All-America stars, and Dale Barnstable, 1949-50 captain. The place: Madison Square Garden's 1949 National Invitation Tournament. The opponent: Loyola of Chicago, a ten-point underdog, which upset Rupp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Scandal of the Week | 10/29/1951 | See Source »

...this whole world con be lenient with Mr. Duane except the judge in this court," he said. "Certainly, you don't think I got together with the judge and we agreed to be lenient...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: McLeod Gets Five Year Jail Term; Other Thief Given Lighter Penalty | 10/24/1951 | See Source »

...prosecution replied that there was nothing in it for Duane. "No one in this whole world can be lenient with Mr. Duane except the Judge in this court", he said. "Certainly you don't think I got together with the judge and we agreed to be lenient...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: McLeod Awaits Sentence Today After Conviction; Duane Guilty | 10/23/1951 | See Source »

...indication of this has been the move to make parietal rules more lenient. The fact that Yale now allows women in rooms until 11 p.m. over the weekends may, however, not be surprising to those who remember the school's founder: Elihu Yale, born in Scollay Square

Author: By Michael J. Halberstam and Winthrop Knowlton, S | Title: Harvard Gets Yale Through 250 Historic Years | 10/19/1951 | See Source »

Although the police intend to be lenient on weekend parking, they are anxious for students to get their cars "out of the way" at other times...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cambridge Police to OK Weekend Parking | 10/17/1951 | See Source »

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