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...Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey Circus opened its 1948 tour with a 33-day stand in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden. The show's biggest hit: Unus of Vienna, "gravity -defying equilibristic wonder" who balances himself on his forefinger on a glass ball, then does a one-hand stand atop a cane while twirling hoops with his feet, his mouth and his free hand...
...one-hand set shots of Joe Flynn provided the spark missing in the Funsters' recent games, and they held the lead throughout the game. George Okamura, whom Mariaschin calls "the best little ballplayer in the league," was on top of every Leverett play, while John Brunsman's control to the backboard set up fast breaks for the Dunster five. Norm Cameron paced the Bunnies with ten points...
Last year's champions, the Deacons of Kirkland, got off to a quick start behind the fast, steady play of their first five. Joe Kamoese got the team started with two one-hand shots, and it wasn't long before Howie Ezell, Tex Moyers, Bob Betts, and Larry Hall were throwing them in from all points on the court. At the half the score stood 20 to 4. With their second, third, and fourth teams playing the second half, the Deacons slowed their pace but still came out ahead...
...reaches and hurdles with their fingers to type them. He also found that in normal writing typists struck keys in the home row (second from the bottom, where the fingers naturally rest) only 32% of the time, that the left hand did 47% more work than the right. Sample one-hand word: greatest...
Part ancient Irish saga, part blarney, Sons of the Swordmaker, by Maurice Walsh (Stokes, $2.50), concerns the five sons of Orugh the Swordmaker. They are an accomplished bunch. Delgaun lops the head off of fabled Fergus the Killer, wins an enigmatic redhead named Alor. Flann One-Hand wanders over Ireland itself, gets mixed up with Fer Rogain, Conaire the King, cools a rustic spitfire named Dairne. Most adventurous part of the tale is the oldtime Gaelic talk: Says Delgaun of Alor: "She has red hair and she stays in a man's mind. Brief enough, but enough. She draws...