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...Comets, an Aurora (Ill.) basketball team of 10-to 13-year-old boys, last week made basketballers' eyes pop. In a Y.M.C.A. tournament, they averaged a field goal every 27 seconds to smother another moppet five, the Fritzies, 106-to-1. Before experts could hail them as a wonder team of prodigies, the Comets next day plummeted to earth. Against another Y team of coevals, they lost...
...normal young-or-not-so-young girl into a raving manlae. Scientists have advanced various theories, but the one we like best is that of a girl who, after sitting through six performances, sobbed out that she wanted to "take him home, give him a hot cup of tea, smother him with hot water bottles, and tuck him-into...
They parry with similar dexterity. Both sides move a limited number swiftly about, trying to penetrate undefended bases, catch unprotected bombers and smother the antagonist with a temporary superiority of numbers. It is a fluid, unrelenting game, fought with courage and skill...
Lieutenant Commander Howard M. Menzel played Alphonse to Lieutenant Oswald Jacoby's Gaston last night as the two contrived to smother Bunks Burditt and Hugh Hyde in three rubbers of bridge played at PBH before a crowd of some 50 kibitizers...
Next morning, before the sun began to smother Moresby in equatorial heat, three Fortresses droned north. Reconnaissance photographs had revealed a larger concentration of Jap ships in Rabaul Harbor than usual, and some 40 planes on adjacent airdromes. The vanguard of Fortresses ignored the ships, dropped their 500-lb. bombs on the planes. How many they smashed the darkness concealed, but fewer than 20 rose to meet the 30-odd U.S. bombers which struck the harbor's clustered ships at noon. Five of these went down before the squadrons' .50-caliber guns. Nine, possibly ten, warships were left...