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...Crimson tactics seemed to confuse the inexperienced Lions, and their spectacular shooting spree soon fizzled...

Author: By Mark L. Krupnick, | Title: Basketball Team Downs Columbia, Bows to Cornell | 1/13/1958 | See Source »

Repetto made two quick set shots to give the Crimson a four-point advantage at the beginning of the game, but a shooting spree by Dave Reed and A1 Poulsen' put Brown in the lead, 14 to 12, at 6:45. Crimson coach Floyd Wilson pulled forwards Dick Woolston and Monk Muncaster and center Bryant Danner from the game, and the Bruins took a sevenpoint lead...

Author: By Fred E. Arnold, | Title: Brown Beats Five, 76-70, In Ivy Basketball Opener | 1/7/1958 | See Source »

...Spree in Paris. Peggy Guggenheim, member of the wealthy copper clan, had a conventional Manhattan upbringing before she married into the lost generation. With her dilettante first husband Author Laurence Vail, she gave some of Paris' wildest parties, posed for Photographer Man Ray in a cloth-of-gold, fringed sheath, balancing a foot-long cigarette holder. Her yen for art and artists did not come until after her divorce, when she started her own London gallery, soon decided to found her own museum of modern art. At the outbreak of World War II, she took the proposed museum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Last Duchess | 12/16/1957 | See Source »

...varsity held its own during the final minutes of the contest, although a 9 point scoring spree by Massachusetts substitute Bob Eichorn narrowed the final margin...

Author: By Fred E. Arnold, | Title: Varsity Triumphs, 84-58, Over Weak UMass Five | 12/3/1957 | See Source »

...time. Cracked a city-room wit as Sputnik 11 hove into the headlines: "It's the first time a dog story made eight-column streamers on every front page in the country." The press gave full coverage to the challenging aspects of the Russian feat. But, in a spree of Muttnik jokes and doggerel, wry puns and photographic gags, it also served up laughter to a nation big enough to chuckle over a joke on itself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Dog Story | 11/18/1957 | See Source »

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