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...Puritans kept the Bellboys hard pressed in the first half of their match, leading most of the period. But the Bellboys hit their stride, and with Dick Sorlein, Dave Barnett, and Bill Thompson accounting for 15 points, they came out four points...
...touring team is always at a disadvantage with the inconveniences of travel, and it is a question whether the Crimson could have played better ball without these disadvantages. Lack of reserves, weariness of train rides, strange courts, and strange backboards were to be met and taken in stride. These are not excuses for defeat but rather are examples of what a visiting team must face when it plays away from home...
...losing their first game, the Bellboys were far off stride, garnering but 14 points throughout the contest. "Shel" Sachs was the driving force for Lowell filling the basket for 10 points while teammate Jack Penson made the remaining four. Norman Cameron led the Bunnies with his total...
...Luzon, MacArthur sweated to forge a fighting force. Back to Washington went a stream of able reports, stressing the necessity for supplies for his Philippine Army. In his air-conditioned, penthouse apartment he gave fervid interviews to visiting newsmen, telling them how tough was his Philippine Army. He would stride back & forth across his room, purpling the air with oratory, punctuated by invocations of God and the flag, pounding his fist in his palm, swinging his arms in great sweeping gestures. Blond, burly John Gunther, master of the technique of sit-'em -in -the -chair -and -pace...
What prospect there might be of that, only the U.S. Government knew. But last week the Government took a big stride toward getting Allied news heard in Asia. Not waiting for the lately authorized shortwave station to be built in California, the Coordinator of Information bought General Electric's newest, finest, 100-kilo-watt transmitter (which has been operating under the call letters WGEO in Schenectady since September) for shipment to San Francisco.* There it will become a powerful partner of G.E.'s present 50-kilowatter, KGEI, in short-wave broadcasting across the Pacific...