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...Take It With You. In Milwaukee, 54-year-old Walter Estes broke into a bar, leaving the rear window open for a getaway, took $864 from the storeroom, paused for a nip, was found next morning fast asleep on the barroom floor...
...valuable U.S. farm crop. Since the first of the year, Europe's freeze, which ruined the olive-oil crop, has sent the oily soy soaring nearly $1 a bushel to the season's high of $3.42 per bushel. While other farm commodities did poorly, the soy did nip-ups for happy speculators: exports from Oct. 1 to March 31 rose nearly 1,000%, compared with the same period a year ago, while domestic producers crushed the beans at a record rate for oils and livestock meal. A trader who put up $180 at Christmas...
...relay team turned in its best performance of the year to set a Harvard record of 3:25.4 and finish third behind Yale (3:23.1) and Ohio State (3:24.5). A 49.9 final leg by Ohio State's Al Wiggins just managed to nip the Crimson for second place...
...final minutes, however, the Yardlings suddenly came alive and the game became a nip and tuck affair. The lead switched hands several times but the team from Hanover came out on top. Good foul shooting by the Indians thwarted a last-second drive by the Harvard freshmen...
Manhattan, showing superior depth, racked up enough second and third places to nip favored Villanova, 36 to 34, in the IC4A meet at Madison Square Garden Saturday...