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...honorary title of Mr. Basketball; in Lawrence, Kans. Allen's basketball career began while he was an undergraduate at the U. of Kansas, where he played for the inventor of the game, Dr. James Naismith. After medical school (osteopathy) and several years of coaching other Midwestern teams, Allen returned to Kansas and guided the Jayhawks to 24 conference championships. He retired in 1956, leaving a record (771 games won, 233 lost for a .768 percentage over his 46-year career) that stood until 1968-the year one of Allen's own students, Adolph Rupp, broke it. Allen...
...past, Connell has explored -and refined-two different kinds of narratives. Mrs. Bridge (1959) and Mr. Bridge (1969) spun out a series of vignettes in the Midwestern lives of their protagonists; the accretions were devastating catalogues of anomie. In Notes from a Bottle Found on the Beach at Carmel (1963) and Points for a Compass Rose (1973), Connell shored fragments of history and reflection against our ruin, casting them in prose lines that rang with poetry...
...more of them than there were printers. In general, my guess is that Provisionals are more in touch with other students than they've been for some time, partly because the passions of '69 and some of their more grandiose ambitions have finally cooled. My roommate, a lovable Midwestern biologist, went to the Honeywell demonstration last year--it could be a straw in the wind. I wouldn't count on a building occupation, but then, you never can tell...
...what little hope remained that it would be eased by bumper crops this year vanished. On the fourth day of the Ford Administration, the Department of Agriculture released new crop forecasts that seemed to confirm the worst fears about the effects of the blistering drought that has gripped the Midwestern Farm Belt this summer after heavy spring rains spoiled the planting season (TIME...
Every new President likes to turn to trusted confidants for advice. So the unfamiliar faces of two old friends of Gerald Ford's have begun to appear in the circle of men with whom the President discusses economics. Like Ford, both are conservative Midwestern Republicans-and neither is an economist...