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Peripatetic Peddlers. The pros peddle their skill with the peripatetic energy of oldtime vaudevillians. The National Basketball Association's eight teams keep on the hop from November through March, play one-night stands from Fort Wayne to Syracuse, from New York to Minneapolis. They even find time and resources to please crowds in nonleague cities as far off as Miami...
...homebred American game of basketball, in fact, owes most of is present gym-packing, crowd-drawing prominence to the popularity of its hot-handed pros. In turn, the pros acknowledge their debt to a roly-poly Russian immigrant named Maurice Podoloff, 66, who barely knew the difference between a pick-off play and a picket fence when he became president of the N.B.A. In ten years Podoloff has led the league out of virtual pauperhood into the promised land of big crowds and bigger bank accounts. He hits the road as often as any of the players...
...From California to the East Coast, new towns are eager for franchises. Perhaps the surest proof of the N.B.A.'s success and the caliber of its players is that club owners want to expand their league but cannot find on college courts enough good players to match their pros...
...Round of Parties. The best golfers in the U.S. had scrambled for invitations to "the Crosby." Big-name pros drew partners from a list of blue-ribbon amateurs that boasted movie stars, corporation presidents, politicians, even retired General of the Army Omar Bradley. "One of the greatest Americans of all time." said the announcer as he introduced Bradley to the crowd. "You don't expect me to hit the ball after that, do you?" asked the general. The routine was the same for all players. Daytime: a round on the lovely, exclusive course at Cypress Point, a crack...
...scouts, too, were interested not in the score-21-7 for the South-but in the talent arrayed before them. Some of the best college seniors were absent, or already drafted for the pros, or both. Alabama's stubborn refusal to let a Negro play with white men cheated the spectators out of a chance to see jolting Jim Brown, who had looked magnificent in Syracuse's 28-27 loss to T.C.U. in the Cotton Bowl, but Brown had already been drafted by Cleveland. Iowa's Kenny Ploen, star of the Hawkeyes' 35-19 win over...