Word: slambang
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nobody in Venice last week seemed to know how the trouble started but there it was-a glittering portrait of Cinemactress Marion Davies by Tade Styka, hanging, slambang, in the vestibule of the American Pavilion at the 10th Biennial Art Exhibition. Ever since the Exhibition opened in mid-May visitors thought it strange that this work by a Polish artist should be so prominently displayed in a U. S. collection supposedly owned entirely by the Whitney Museum of American Art. Last week, in London, Mrs. Juliana R. Force, the Whitney Museum's energetic director, thought it was so strange...
...Southwest, Texas Christian boasts: 1) League leadership; 2) a forward named Richard Allison, 6 ft. 5 in., 200 lb., who has scored 86 points this season. Rocky Mountain. Even in this single league basketball styles vary. The western division (Utah and Montana) plays a slambang, helter-skelter game resulting in high scores. The eastern (Colorado, Wyoming) tends toward conservatism and tight defense. W'yoming leads the league undefeated. Wyoming's ace is a tall, blond, left-handed forward named Les Witte, brother of Coach Willard ("Dutch") Witte. In a double-header last week against Colorado College he scored...