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...South, for basketball purposes, is divided into two conferences: Southern, which includes colleges in most of the Atlantic Coast States, and Southeastern, which includes colleges in the deep South and the Mississippi Valley. In each the championship is decided, not by the round-robin of scheduled games, but in a post-season tournament among the Conference leaders. Last week Washington & Lee beat North Carolina 29-to-19, a game that was important since both are sure to be in the Southern Conference tournament at Durham, N. C. March 5-7. Southeastern Conference's major game of the week...
...Joseph Levis, captain of the United States Olympic Team, Mr. Peroy continued, "Our hardest match comes up on March 6 in the Pentagonal Meet with Army, Navy, Yale, and Princeton. Our toughest competition will be with Yale, but we undoubtedly have a chance." The Pentagonal Meet will be a round-robin where every man encounters every other man. Each man is only allowed one weapon. The matches will go on all day, and probably well into the night...
Premier Blum heartily wished Spain would float away to some other planet while the French Chamber of Deputies adjourned and the Bank of France was reorganized, but he and Foreign Minister Yvon Delbos had to do something about Spain and kept pressing upon the Great Powers their round-robin resolution for absolute neutrality (TIME, Aug. 17). Benito Mussolini declared that Italy could adhere to it only if all powers signatory to it would bind themselves not only to refuse "State aid" to Spain but to prevent "private aid" as well from reaching Madrid. In a rage at this, some...
That night U. S. Minister Boaz Walton Long, backed by the rest of the diplomatic corps, sent General Somoza a round-robin petition to cease firing. He agreed. Both sides kept their strategic positions but began dickering on a compromise candidate for next President of Nicaragua...
...that the "bomb" was harmless. The white powder: sugar. Federal authorities scratched their heads, admitted that no statute forbids the mailing of junk, however fearfully disguised. To Chancellor Flint, who was vacationing with his wife in Miami, Fla. the School of Architecture closed the incident by sending a round-robin apology for the prank...