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...most-valuable-player award, Brigham Young Coach Stan Watts began to think about the N.C.A.A. tournament, in which his team is also entered. Said Watts with professional pessimism: "The boys looked kind of ragged to me." Minson & Co., he thought, would have to be a lot sharper to win the N.C.A.A. title. Naturally, they will be praying that they do their best...
Both Dean Bender and Registrar Sargent Kennedy '28 expressed mild surprise that the fluctuation was so slight. Bender said yesterday that he had expected the figures would show a sharper decline in marks than proved to be the case...
Clarinetist Prince Robinson ("Say he's from New Orleans," says Max. "That's a good place to be from.") is an Armstrong alumnus from way back, and does indeed play in the very ancient Crescent City tradition. Kaminsky blows his horn with a sharper, thinner tone and with less imagination than in past days; it comes out a New York or modern-Chicago style. And trombonist Munn Ware alternates strangely between a "suffering" blues tone and the most modern, polished sound of the three...
...Detroit, a somewhat sharper and slimmer (down to 210 Ibs.) Joe Louis over slow-footed Freddie Beshore, by a technical knockout in the fourth...
...means the number of sick, mortality the number of dead. For years doctors in the U.S. and Britain have been puzzling over a paradox in the morbidity and mortality rates of tuberculosis: while TB mortality has declined fairly steadily, morbidity has been rising. One possible explanation: doctors have become sharper-eyed in detecting new cases...