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...town like Apalachicola. Author Bennett describes their environment sympathetically, and now & then probes their moods with humor and delicate skill. But more often she assaults her readers with rhetoric ("0 God, what jubilance, exuberance, terror and pain"), plagues them with questions ("What is love? . . . What are you, Pivot?"), emotes, postures, harangues...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Insects Chirming | 2/3/1947 | See Source »

Exploiting his height under the basket, Hauptfuhrer has registered most of his markers on tap-ins and pivot hook shots, and on give-and-go combinations with Mariaschin...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hauptfuhrer Nation's Tenth Highest Scorer With 190, Reports AP | 1/17/1947 | See Source »

Captain Bob Gale, Cornell's six-foot-four-inch former all-Ivy League pivot man, led the individual scoring with 15 points on six field goals and three fouls. Bob was closely followed by his brother Jim, who accounted for 14 Big Red counters...

Author: By Jerry Lamb and Cornell Sun, S | Title: Quintet Bows to Cornell, 56-39, in League Debut | 1/13/1947 | See Source »

After Ed Peterson had sent the Big Red off to a 1 to 0 lead with a free throw, Steve Davis dunked a neat pivot to give the Crimson the margin, and the visitors from Cambridge stayed there for thirteen minutes of the first half...

Author: By Jerry Lamb and Cornell Sun, S | Title: Quintet Bows to Cornell, 56-39, in League Debut | 1/13/1947 | See Source »

...quick points by Hauptfuhrer and the steady floor play of Captain Saul Mariaschin propelled Harvard to an 11 to 6 lead before Cornell could begin hacking away at the difference. With 13 minutes gone by, a long overhead set by Peterson and Jim Gale's pivot sent the Redmen ahead...

Author: By Jerry Lamb and Cornell Sun, S | Title: Quintet Bows to Cornell, 56-39, in League Debut | 1/13/1947 | See Source »

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