Word: thompson
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Lemons was--to say the least--disenchanted with his team's play. And he had no reason to be joyous about watching highly touted freshman center LaSalle Thompson do his imitation of a 6-ft. 10-in. oak tree sprouting roots in the Celtics' free throw lane...
Surprisingly, it wasn't the height differential that did Harvard in. Texas's LaSalle Thompson, the beefy 6-ft. 10-in. center out of Cincinatti who was one of the most zealously recruited athletes in the country last year, was stymied for much of the evening, the victim of inexperience and aggressive boxing out by Harvard's Mark Harris and Bob Allen...
...Carson 3 7-8 13; Danks 5 0-0 10; Thompson 2 2-2 6; Turner 11 3-4 25; Baxter 7 5-5 19; Boyd 0 0-0 0; Johnson 3 3-3 9; Olson 1 1-1 3; Totals...
Both Harvard and Texas are young--Texas starts three freshmen, Harvard goes with two sophomores--but the Longhorns carry a distinct height advantage. While 6-ft. 5-in. Mark Harris will face the task of guarding UT's highly-touted freshman postman LaSalle Thompson (6-ft. 10-in. out of Cincinnati), the Longhorns will keep seven-foot freshman Steve Frederick on the bench, waiting to compound the Crimson woes...
DIED. Merle Oberon, 68, arrestingly beautiful cinemactress who rose to fame in the '30s and '40s in such classics as Wuthering Heights and The Scarlet Pimpernel; after a stroke; in Los Angeles. Oberon was born Estelle Merle O'Brien Thompson on the island of Tasmania. Educated in India, she left for England in 1928, worked as an extra and dance hostess until she met and married Film Producer Alexander Korda. Her 1933 portrayal of Anne Boleyn in The Private Life of Henry VIII made her a star. Divorcing Korda in 1945, she went on to play such...