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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first half started slowly--and fairly evenly--but at the 12 minute mark Yale's fast break began to click, and two quick baskets by Downs broke an 18-18 deadlock. From that point on, the Elis steadily pulled ahead until they went off the floor with a 35-28 halftime lead...
...Bowditch ended the drought at the 6:20 mark with a pretty three point play, but as in the opening stanza, the Buildogs began to increase their lead until it grew to 17 points with seven minutes left...
...Speaker Champ Clark, Lawyer Cannon became parliamentarian, began compiling his monumental Procedure and Precedents, by which the House still does business. In 1922 Cannon was elected to the House from Speaker Clark's old district, Missouri's Ninth ("The Bloody Ninth"), which sprawls across 24 northeastern counties and includes Mark Twain's Hannibal. As the dour guardian of the House's power of the purse. Cannon fights an unending battle. "We've got to keep people from taking more and more money out of the U.S. Treasury," he cries. "Every day they devise a thousand new ways...
...Olympic pool at North Sydney, Australia's incredible whiz-kid, Lisa Konrads, 14, touched out in 19 min. 25.7 sec., shattering the old world record for 1,500 meters by an amazing 37.4 sec. Brother John Konrads, 16, got into the act, too, set a new world mark of 2 min. 2.2 sec. for the 200-meter freestyle, now holds every freestyle record from 200 meters to 1,650 yds. ¶ Boston University Freshman John Thomas, 17, watched tensely as the high-jump bar was set, missed his first two tries, then rolled cleanly across on his last chance...
More Power. Some of the show's best buys and fanciest eye-catchers came from Europe. Britain's Silhouette Marine, Ltd. exhibited the smallest cruising sailboat, the 17-ft. Silhouette Mark II, which sleeps two in an enclosed cabin. Price: $1,987. The French, taking part in the show for the first time, displayed sailboats ranging from the 13½-ft. Vaurien at $495 to the 18-ft. Corsaire at $1,975. West Germany also made its first invasion, enticed the outboard set with the 19-ft. Graves Hummel cruiser. It sleeps five, weighs only 620 lbs., speeds...