Word: ohio
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...After Ohio State and the Crimson battled to an 18-18 tie midway through the second quarter, the Buckeyes surged ahead to take a 26-20 halftime lead they would not relinquish...
...Ohio State's 6'6" center, Jack Undermann, dominated the inside game, scoring 14 points before fouling out in the final minutes. Gray and Mariaschin led the Crimson with 11 points apiece...
...Crimson drew a tough opponent in its opening match--Ohio State University, the winner of four consecutive Big Ten titles, which was making its fourth tournament appearance...
...often, it turns out, lived off his wife's salary as a legal secretary (when he managed occasionally to earn a bit of money, he did so by editing a not very successful soft-porn magazine called Hot Dog). The super-American, his daughter learns, was born not in Ohio, as he claimed, but in Vilna, Lithuania, five years earlier than his supposed birth date. The Jewish convert to right-wing Catholicism, Mary finds, was never accepted as anything but a Jew by his wife's Irish Catholic family. Most pathetically, perhaps, the father remembered as young, dashing and handsome...
Without much success, she searches for her father's family in northeastern Ohio. But the clever immigrant boy who taught himself to speak English without an accent (and who spoke several other languages, though never Yiddish) left little trace. His daughter's book turns frantic, and to some extent loses direction, as it becomes clear that she is not going to find David Gordon at the precise point of shame and bitterness when the immigrant experience persuaded him to construct a disguise. There are two great losses here. A little girl loses her father's hand in a swirling crowd...