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...Romeo and Juliet," in which Mr. Evans and Miss Best, as a famous and fabulous theatrical couple, play the title parts between miscellaneous interruptions in the course of the rehearsal. The play parodies the ingrown frame of mind often found in the theater where the world would seem to pivot on a chalk mark in the center of the stage. The humor, which is reminiscent of vandeville in its pacing and gags, stems from the contrast between life backstage and the rehearsing of Shakespeare's tragedy. Corny but amusing...
...time John F. Kopczynski graduated from Rochester Institute of Technology ten years ago, he was thinking seriously about wheels. Why, he asked himself, should they always be round? Maybe oval wheels would do some jobs better. Last week, Kopczynski (now 31 and president of Buffalo's Pivot Punch and Die Corp.) displayed a set of something he calls "Walk Wheels." They are oval in shape and can flip-flop through mud or sand that would founder conventional round wheels...
...rest of the starting lineup is the same as it stood against Yale. This means that John Rockwell will be the other forward, Bill Prior will handle the pivot spot, and Chip Gannon and Dick Covey will be at guard. Covey draws the tough assignment of guarding George Sella, key man in the Princeton attack. Stopping Sella would give the underdog Crimson squad a much improved chance for victory...
Bill Prior, who swished them in from right and left in the pivot position, was high scorer for Harvard with 19 points. Bob Carlson led the victors with 21 points. Fighting Walt McCurdy, who at times seemed the only man from the Crimson able to follow the ball on the floor, hit the hoops for 12 points...
Tireless and amazingly agile for his size, Mikan kept wearing down fresh men sent in to guard him. He gobbled up rebounds from both backboards, made blind passes on the fast break, fed the ball to his teammates from his pivot slot. When the game was over, the Lakers had won a close one (78-76), and Mike Mikan had added 30 more points to his season's total (1,091) while Fulks was picking...