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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...A.A.U. tournament at Oklahoma City, the underdog Oakland (Calif.) Bittners toppled Bob ("Foothills") Kurland and his Olympic teammates of the Bartlesville (Okla.) Phillips Oilers, 55-51, ended the Oilers' unbroken championship reign after six straight years. In the Western finals of the N.C.A.A. at Kansas City, Oklahoma A. & M.'s ball-control specialists outplayed Oregon State, 55-30, got set for the national finals in Seattle late this week...
...well-played Beethoven Fifth had them applauding at the end of each movement, but the Don Carlos brought down the house. Then came a pranking Till Eulenspiegel and (for an encore) one of Conductor Zipper's native Viennese waltzes. Brooklyn loved it. Breathed perspiring Conductor Zipper: "I'm so grateful...
...M. Chauncey Tinker got his first glimpse of Johnson's Age as a Yale undergraduate, class of '99. Before that, he had lived the peripatetic life of a minister's son (Maine to Colorado), and his great ambition was to be a conductor on the Boston & Maine railway. After Yale, he taught one year at Bryn Mawr and fell in love with a student-"a very beautiful girl." She married someone else, and Tinker settled into bachelordom...
...might come true. Dallas was at last building a big new school combining Edison and Juarez, complete with gymnasium, dining room and auditorium. When it is finished, he will have room for more students than ever before. "Then," says Joe, who still commutes from nearby Oak Cliff, "I'm going to move out here to West Dallas. And I want a house with a big front porch where I can sit and talk to all the kids...
...Teapot. Book publishers said such a bureau would not work, but many were delighted with the S.R.L. story. Said Executive Editor Lee Barker of Doubleday: "I know the story is completely accurate . . . I'm so heartily sick of all the complete foolishness of bestseller lists." But the Times and Tribune were not so pleased. Said Times Sunday Editor Lester Markel: "They made the survey without asking what the Times method is. We think ours ... is as good...