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With the risk of upsetting some Looie fans, we'd have to say that it was a mistake to admit St. John's basketball coach Lou Carnessecca into the basketball hall of fame last week. The induction typifies the overrated nature of the Big East (as much as we love St. John's) and its coaches...
...then, take a brief look at Carnessecca's reign at St. John's Despite sitting smack in the middle of a basketball hotland, Looie has never won it all. In fact, he's only reached the Final Four once, while every other year, his St. John's team slips into the tournament and gets knocked out by the third round. His central weakness is his inability to accept the fact that great basketball talent lies outside the concrete jungles of New York City. His team is invariably composed of Big Apple-bred players, a fact which limits the depth...
Before the war. New Yorkers found such an animal fair in the smelly old Bowery warehouse of Louis Ruhe, Inc. (pronounced Looie Rooie), world's largest wild-animal dealer. The fair was at its best in March. Then U.S. zoo keepers, searching for animals for the spring and summer zoogoers, would stalk lions and tigers, aardvarks and aye-ayes, capybaras and caimans, tarsiers and toucans, caged in Ruhe's warehouse...
Naybor (the looie) Cargin and Herbert Coggins with dates located the only dry bench in the Common Saturday night but found it just too crowded for four...
...Looie," it begins, "I know you don't know me from Adam's apple, but after seeing you in action this afternoon, I said to myself, 'Boy! he's got something there,' and I sure would like to correspond with you. That is, if you're willing. ('Honey, please don't turn your back...