Word: rio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...want publicity?" But on Valentine's Day all was well, and the marriage was on again. Said a mollified Horace: "Miss Sherwood and I will be married as soon as my divorce is registered in Kentucky and the Florida license is granted . . ." After that: a honeymoon trip to Rio de Janeiro and England...
...Melancholy anniversary!" commented the conservative newspaper 0 Estado de São Paulo. "After two years Senhor Getulio Vargas still struggles in a vacuum of perplexing inactivity." Said Rio's Correio da Manhã, "The hour is ripe for sinister demagogues...
...Barely behind Seattle's Johnny O'Brien (26.95) and Pennsylvania's Ernie Beck (26.92). Towering "Bevo" Francis of tiny Rio Grande College (50.4 points a game) leads basketball's minor leagues...
...fortnight ago in the "Hog Pen," Rio Grande's dilapidated gymnasium, Bevo ran wild against Ashland (Ky.) Junior College. During the closing five minutes of the game, Coach Oliver shouted instructions to his players, ordering them to foul their opponents deliberately so that Rio Grande could get the ball and "feed" Bevo. Bevo's final total: 116 points, an intercollegiate scoring record for one game...
Last week, again feeding Bevo the ball at every opportunity. Rio Grande defeated Bliss College (Columbus), 102-53. Big Bevo scored 51 points and ran his season total to 1,072. It gave Bevo, who has just finished two high-school courses on the side, another college record, breaking the single-season mark of 1,051 set by Seattle's little (5 ft. 9 in.) Johnny O'Brien (TIME, Jan. 19), who sets his records in basketball's major leagues...