Word: setonism
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...been trying to sell a TIME subscription to a certain student for weeks. I finally wound up lending him the money to buy the subscription, and he left school without returning it. At long last, however, he did send a money order to cover the old loan." At Seton Hall University, Agent Irving Blau was stumped by a fellow student who refused to subscribe because TIME hadn't mentioned the remarkable Seton Hall basketball team. "However," says Blau, "the very next week, when there was a story on the team in TIME, I sold him a subscription." Pat DiNardo...
...liquor industry by his daring. A first lieutenant in World War I, he spent ten years with a contracting firm before joining the New York Trust Co. as a vice president in 1929. He was made president in 1941. Four years ago, when National Distillers' longtime boss, Seton Porter, was looking around for a successor, Bierwirth took the $150,000 job on one condition: that National would go heavily into chemicals, which he considered the most promising field in industry...
What the fans had really come to see was top-seeded Seton Hall's fabulous Walter Dukes, the skyscraper (6 ft. 11 in.) Negro center who paced his team to a major-college record of 27 straight victories. Arrayed against Dukes & Co. was the sentimental underdog, St. John's of Brooklyn, unseeded but not unsung after scoring three straight upsets over St. Louis, La Salle and Duquesne to reach the final round...
...final against Seton Hall, St. John's just ran out of zing. Dukes, galloping up & down the court, dropping in hooks with either hand, passing off to teammates on scoring plays and gathering rebounds off both backboards, put on a one-man show. He scored 21 points (high for the game), and won the tournament's most-valuable-player trophy, as Seton Hall won handily, 58-46. The big man on everybody's All-America team, Dukes reportedly has his choice of signing with the professional National Basketball Association for $10,000 or the famed Harlem Globetrotters...
...Seton Hall, winner of the National Invitation Tourney, finished second in the polling. Kansas State finished third, University of Washington was fourth, and Louisiana State ended in fifth place...