Word: tilled
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...encouraging sign from amidst the disappointment of the varsity basketball ason is the 12-2 record of the freshman team. This is one of the best won-lost percentages for a Yardling quintet in many years, and the hackneyed cry "Wait till next year" is being voiced with enthusiasm by local basketball fans...
Inman started in the right corner, but didn't hit his stride till midway in the ason. He has quick moves for a 6 ft., 5 incher, and handles himself well outside under the basket. The third star was captain Sid Davis, a 5 ft., 10 in. guard who es just about everything which budding Bob Cousys dream about. Besides his e outside shooting, Davis is an expert ball-handler, an ability that was noticeable its absence on the varsity this year...
...flabbiest season in years. About equally lavish and leaden, 13 Daughters takes place in 19th century Hawaii and stars Don Ameche as an amiably wily Chinese millionaire with 13 daughters to marry off. If that is not trouble enough, there is a Hawaiian custom that no daughter can marry till the eldest does, and a Hawaiian curse that none of Ameche's shall marry at all. Before the ban gives way to the banns, there is a lot of Hawaiian -or Hawaiian-type -music and dancing, and sighing and song, and love by a stream, and rollicking...
...when he learned from travelers that Live with Lightning had been translated into Russian and was selling like piroshki. Although Russia is not a signer of the Universal Copyright Convention and ordinarily pirates foreign works without payment, Wilson wrote to Moscow and asked for royalties. He received no reply till two years later, when the Russians decided to serialize My Brother, and after a protracted exchange of cables deposited $6,000 in his U.S. bank account. Author Wilson has so far collected about $20,000, expects to make another $15,000 from Far Meridian...
This student--who happenecidentally, to be Irish--des his reaction to the book: "The et said, when you pick this bo you can't put it down. Of cour rather doubted this. But I the book, read it on the train said hello to Mother, and w reading till I'd finished. W said seemed so true...