Word: pointing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With seven minutes to play and an 11-point lead, the tantalizing Aggies went into their "freeze." When the game ended, St. Louis had lost its fourth straight game to Oklahoma A. & M. in two years (while losing only two other games all told), 40-37. The subdued crowd of 11,624 moved for the exits, dragging their bells behind them...
...with the I.C.4-A. (for Intercollegiate Association of Amateur Athletes of America) track championship at Madison Square Garden over runners-up Yale and 44 other colleges. Best individual performance of the meet: an American indoor-record heave of 60 ft. 7¾ in. by rawboned Jim Scholtz, a West Point first-classman, with the 35-lb. weight...
With a good sense of public relations, G.M. timed its action to coincide with company-wide wage reductions of 2? an hour under its escalator "cost-of-living" contract. (Wage rates are adjusted up or down quarterly, 1? for every 1.14 point change in the Bureau of Labor Statistics cost-of-living index.) Said G.M.'s President Charles E. Wilson: the markdown was intended to "pass along to consumers the savings resulting from both the downward adjustment of wage and salary payments and the lowered cost of certain material items...
...POINT OF No RETURN (559 pp.)-John P. Marquand- Little, Brown...
Life Without Props. For almost two years Novelist John Phillips Marquand has been burrowing at the roots of Charley Gray's discontent. Next week, in his latest and best novel, Point of No Return, he gives his readers no pat answer. But, as a good novelist should, he gives them a shrewd, revealing picture of a broad segment of U.S. society...