Word: star
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...winner, appropriately enough, was Sherry, who won two of the Dodgers' games and saved the other two. The relief star made the difference in a World Series in which neither team had a complete game from its pitching staff...
Cornell, without 1958 star quarterback Tom Skypeck, is hoping for improvement in its backfield, which cannot match the Crimson's. Albie Cullen, Larry Repsher, Chet Boulris, and Charlie Ravenel have been running very well lately, and Cornell admittedly has its hands full...
Coach Bruce Munro said yesterday that the encounter should give the varsity a chance to perfect its offense. The Crimson's attack so far this season has been unpolished but effective, and the loss of Roger Tuckerman, last season's star center forward, already seems less of a calamity than was originally feared...
...Power Co. Ltd., a Canada-incorporated utility that supplies about a third of Mexico's electric power. Same day, another Army notable, 2nd Lieut. Pete Dawkins, 21, West Point's most acclaimed all-round cadet (first captain of cadets, '58 football captain, '59 class president, "Star" man in scholarship) since Douglas MacArthur, headed for two-year expatriation in England, where as a Rhodes scholar he will study at Oxford...
BRIGHTEST star among the bright young architects of the 1930s was a dour-looking, dynamic Finn named Alvar Aalto. His TB sanatorium at Paimio, Finland, with its cantilevered decks, was a landmark in the new international style. Almost singlehanded he had made wood a "modern material," used it in a dazzling variety of ways-an undulating ceiling for a library in Viipuri, an undulating wall for the Finnish Pavilion at the 1939 New York World's Fair-and the tastemakers of the era all sat in Aalto's curved plywood chairs. But as the glass-and-steel revolution...