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Astor left college immediately. It is rumored that he became a traveling salesman operating out of Peoria...
...like carbuncles on the red neck of Manhattan's Madison Square Garden (TIME, Jan. 29 et seq.), Illinois' Bradley University was as horrified as any of them. Last spring Bradley staged its own private invitation tournament, to make sure that its team, known as the "Pride of Peoria," kept uncontaminated. Last week Peoria's pride came a cropper. Manhattan District Attorney Frank Hogan announced that eight Bradley players, including All-America Gene Melchiorre, had been hand in glove with gamblers. Also involved: four members of Toledo University's team. ¶ For 13 years a group...
...Syracuse in an upset over Bradley, 76-75, in the first national campus basketball tournament; in Peoria...
...spot check at Bradley University (Peoria, Ill.) showed that more than half of its star athletes major in physical education, getting credits for such subjects as "handball, elementary swimming, square and social dancing, touch football and first...
When Bradley's basketball team bobbed up in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden for a game with St. John's (of Brooklyn) last week, the boys from Peoria were rated the No. 1 team in the U.S. Bradley's shoot-and-run tactics, sparked by little (5 ft. 8 in., 170 Ibs.) Gene Melchiorre, had frazzled 15 straight opponents by outrunning and outscoring them. St. John's Coach Frank McGuire told his Redmen what he wanted them to do about all this: shoot and run faster than No. 1 Bradley, and put up a better...