Word: scoring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...same jayvee quintet that crushed Burdett Junior College under an 84 to 38 score in its opener last week will take the floor here tonight against the Brockton YMCA...
Maybe it was the glass backboards. Maybe it was stage fright. At any rate, the Varsity played like a pick-up unit last night at the Garden when it took a 52 to 36 spanking from an aggressive Boston University quintet before a crowd of 7500. Halftime score...
Winston Churchill received tributes by the hundreds† and presents by the score on his 73rd birthday. Among the presents: a bold seascape in oil by seven-year-old Grandson Winston II, whose art teacher is his grandfather. Winston II explained to the inquiring press why he hadn't yet done a portrait of his grandfather: "He wouldn't keep still...
...Front First. Back at Bay Meadows last week, the wrinkled-faced little jockey won eight races, then went down south of the border to win three more on Sunday. That made his score for the season 293, nine more than Steve Brooks. Longden did not have the power of an Eddie Arcaro (who sometimes looks as if he gets off and lifts a horse across the finish) or Earl Sande's rare judgment of pace. But people liked to bet on his horses because they got a run for their money. Besides a high reputation for honesty...
Died. Ernst Lubitsch, 55, roguish ("Puck with a cigar") movie producer-director who got his famed "Lubitsch touch" from the late wunderbare Producer-Director Max Reinhardt and left it on a score of sophisticated implausibilities (Monte Carlo, Ninotchka, Cluny Brown); of a heart ailment; in Bel-Air, Calif. Lubitsch, whose German-made Gypsy Blood and Passion brought Emil Jannings, Pola Negri and a grace-note style of cinema comedy to the U.S. in 1919, was one of the first European directors to earn-and keep-Hollywood's cash-&-carry respect...