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Starting at center for the East, the baby-faced redhead beat Wilt Chamberlain on the opening tipoff, charged to the basket, gathered in a rebound and popped in the first two points. Moments later he banked in another jump shot. Then he quickly scored on a fast break, stole the ball and started yet another assault. Never letting up, the irrepressible Cowens led the East to a 104-84 victory and hustled off the Chicago court with the game's Most Valuable Player honors...
Right before the opening tipoff the Celtics Management pulled off a move straight out of Lefty Dreisell's "Memoirs of Recruiting Tricks I've Use on One Sap or Another...
...desperate attempt to contain Murphy, Penn switched to a zone defense (illegal in the pros), but it was too late. Underdog Niagara won 79-69, with Murphy hitting for a game-high total of 35 points. Last week Villanova went into an aggressive zone defense at the tipoff and, with four and even five players hounding Murphy at once, held him to a low 18 points...
...equally arcane message; Paul is dressed in black, the others in white; an inside picture shows Paul as a soldier above a sign reading "I Was You"; the back cover shows him wearing a black flower-the other three have red ones-alongside a funeral wreath. For a final tipoff, Gibb recalled a McCartney look-alike contest held two years ago. The winner was never announced, said the disk jockey, because he filled Paul's slot. Nonsense, answered a Beatle flack: "I haven't seen him for a few weeks, but I know he's there...
Strong Right Hand. The tipoff, Reston says, came last December when he made Rosenthal associate managing editor with license to ride herd on the "bullpen"-the traditionally sacrosanct bank of rewrite editors. Finally, the appointment of able, amiable Seymour Topping, 47, as assistant managing editor gives his good friend Rosenthal a strong right hand. "Nearly two years ago," Sulzberger summed up, "we began seriously to plan the transition to the next generation . . . That mission has been accomplished...