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...Coach Forddy Anderson, in Kansas City for the final of the National Collegiate championship last week. Not even the tournament directors were quite sure how Bradley had reached the final. During the regular season, the Bradley team had a mediocre record of 15 victories, twelve defeats. The "Pride of Peoria" had been a last-minute choice to round out the tournament field of 24 teams, had marched ahead in a succession of upsets. The Eastern finalist in the tournament of upsets was considerably more imposing: Philadelphia's La Salle College, sparked by All-America Tom Gola, and possessor...
...national A.A.U. basketball final, another Peoria team had better luck. The Peoria Caterpillars won their third straight title, beating San Diego...
...look for little else from the Administration, which accounts for a general indifference to its record, or lack of it, up to now. There are certainly those with strong feelings about taxation, military spending and foreign aid, but save in special areas-such speculation centers and market places as Peoria and Minneapolis or in the Coeur d'Alene mining towns-I found little interest in those subjects which loom as the big issues in Washington. The issue, for instance, of the extension of the excess profits tax was quite often either shrugged off, or given a cold, "Well, what...
Obscure Mail Pilot. The idea that he could fly the Atlantic came to Lindbergh in his DH4 biplane one moonlit night over Peoria, Ill., while he was flying the mail from St. Louis to Chicago. It is September 1926, and he is not yet 25, but four solid years of barnstorming and army air service have given him an air of quiet confidence that a group of aviation-mind ed St. Louis businessmen cannot resist...
Vanguard. In Peoria, firemen became suspicious when their unofficial mascot, a 14-year-old boy, always arrived at fires before they did, got him to admit that he had started five blazes because he liked "to watch the fire engines...