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...points (45 goals, 45 assists) and break his own National Hockey League record of 86 points. This week, with seven games to go, Howe scored another goal, leaving him within shooting distance of the record-50-set by Montreal's Maurice Richard in 1944-45. ¶In Cleveland, Rio Grande's Basketballer Bevo Francis sank 54 points against Wilberforce (final score: 109-55), paced his team to its 39th straight victory this season. Winding up with an intercollegiate record of 1,954 points, the skinny freshman, who just got his delayed high-school diploma a month ago, announced...
...market everywhere. "I am the market," he says. "I buy and sell sugar any time, day or night." Last week, as Cuba's 5,000,000-ton sugar harvest rolled toward the market, Lobo operated right around the clock, closing deals with New York, London, Frankfurt, Paris, Rio and Manila, involving millions of dollars...
...Rio de Janeiro, President Getulio Vargas ordered a tighter control over the Brazilian Confederation of Dove Fanciers. His decree: people who profess ideologies contrary to the legal regime are henceforth forbidden to raise carrier pigeons...
...deliberately arranged mismatch," John Barber, 6 ft. 6 in. center for Los Angeles State College, playing nothing but offense, scored 188 points in a basketball game against Los Angeles' Chapman College. Final score: 208-82. The game, explained State College Coach Sax Elliott, was his answer to Rio Grande's Bevo (116 points) Francis...
...Rio de Janeiro, winding up a 13-day, 1,200-mile sail, the 46½-ft. yawl White Mist, owned and skippered by G. W. Blunt White of Mystic, Conn., crossed the finish line first in the third annual sailing race from Buenos Aires, to win the South Atlantic Blue Ribbon. On a corrected-time, i.e., handicap, basis, two smaller Brazilian yachts, Cairu and Mistral, placed one-two ahead of White Mist...