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...every game this season Harvard has had one "hot" man, one sparkplug in the lineup; usually it has been sophomore guard Gene Dressler. Last night Dressler hit on only three of 19 shots, and the team as a whole sank a paltry 36 per cent of its field goal attempts...
Gunnoe was the sparkplug. He scored the Crimson's first goal unassisted at 3:31 of the first period and fed to midfielder Pete Wood for the third five minutes later...
Penn started the second half with a hard-fought scoring burst, and within two minutes had shut out the Crimson and led it up, 39-39. The Quaker's Dave Robinson, who proved to be Penn's sparkplug for the game, led the early drive with his inside shooting and rugged rebounding. He was aided by the steady outside scoring from forward Ray Carazo...
Stepping down as skipper of the Navy Special Projects Office he launched six years ago was Vice Admiral William Raborn, 56, steely sparkplug of the Polaris missile program. Next billet for "cando" Red Raborn: Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Development...
...Family Man. Sparkplug of this international campaign is a Jesuit theologian, Francis Lad Filas, 46, chairman of the theology department at Chicago's Loyola University. One day in 1937, Filas stumbled on an ancient German treatise on St. Joseph, and was attracted to the Virgin's husband as "an obscure underdog who didn't deserve the treatment he had received in history." In 1944 he published his first book on Joseph, The Man Nearest to Christ, and books, pamphlets, lectures and magazine articles on the saint have been pouring out of his typewriter ever since. Jesuit Filas...