Word: slots
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reach, but every time there was half a chance of getting his giant palm between an Iowa shot and the basket, that palm was there. Russell's teammates took it easy, too, passed and wove in careful patterns until Russell was in place in the slot, then attacked. When they missed, the Russell palm was there to tap the shot in. It was all so smooth and so exasperating to the Hawkeyes that they finally broke down into just the kind of basketball they had disdained all season: wild, promiscuous shots in an effort to score. Behind...
...Reasserting his strong claim to the favorite's slot in the Kentucky Derby future book, D-H Stable's Needles moved up from ninth at the three-quarters with no trouble at all to take the $145,400 Florida Derby at Gulfstream Park by three-fourths of a length. Needles probably did not need the 5-lb. weight allowance he drew just for being Florida-bred...
...third slot, Kent Allen lost a 3-2 encounter, in one of the day's closest matches, and number four man, Ed Wadsworth lost in straight games...
Hattie Carnegie was a temperamental whirlwind, who loved the glittering world she lived in, doted on poker, slot machines and canasta. Her Fifth Avenue duplex was serenely elegant, from the gold-plated fixtures in her bathroom to the crepe-dechine sheets and mink coverlet on her bed. Lunching at the Pavilion, sweeping into the opera or arriving in Paris, Hattie was always a conversation-stopper. Her domestic life was sometimes hectic: after two brief and capricious marriages, she finally settled down with Major John Zanft, a childhood sweetheart from the East Side. "I've had three husbands," she often...
Also performing well at Trinity was Lee Folger, who took a quick 3-0 match in the fourth slot. Barnaby said that Folger has "made the greatest improvement of any Harvard player this year." Roger Cortesi and Lanny Thomas won the remaining matches at fifth and sixth singles...