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Freshman year Paine centered the first line, and in his first year on the Varsity he was the pivot man of the Sophomore third line. This winter be played every position except goal, and so has acquired more all-around experience than any other man on the squad...
Johnny Page, pivot see, will be sorely missed. He is "almost certain" he won't be around. Dave Goldwaite, only blocking back left from Harlow's smooth-working 1941 machine, although he is light, would have probably been the ranking man in this department. But he will be in Medical School before the football season rolls around...
Coach Mel Collard will field three of last year's starting five which defeated Harvard 48 to 38. They are captain and leading scorer Jim Cassidy, right forward, bear-like Charley Thomas at right guard, and Howie Mitchell at the pivot position. Newcomers will be Joey Silver at left forward and Red Madden at the other guard...
Stanley Joseph Modzelewski, who plays pivot on Rhode Island State's basketball team, has for four years averaged 21 points a game. Last week, during a game with Holy Cross, Modzelewski scored 16 points; then, every time he tried to shoot, he was blinded by flashlight bulbs. Nevertheless, he finally sank one from the foul line and the shot the cameramen were after was recorded: Modzelewski scoring his 1,597th point in four years of college basketball. It cracked the all-time record* set by Stanford's Hank Luisetti four years...
...book; such ghoulish, semi-slang tintypes as "God's image cut in ebony" (for Negro); such beautifully graphic trade terms as the miner's "snow" (for the sifting of earth presaging a cave-in), the ballplayer's "floater" (for a slow ball), the prostitute's "pivot" (for solicitation from a window). Practically all the unmailable words turn up, along with a tremendous set of their variants and embellishments. So does the surrealist language of drug addicts, the high-heeled dialect of perverts, the likable archaisms of lumberjacks (they still say "whitewater bucko"), and the shoptalk...