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Harvard also continued its torrid shooting. The Crimson converted 54 percent of its field goal attempts, including 7 of 15 shots from downtown. Unfortunately, Harvard only took 20 shots in its turnover-riddled second half.CrimsonDavid S. TangAIR BORN: Co-captain ALLISON FEASTER lit up Lavietes once again on Saturday with 34 points. Her teammates could do nothing but cheer for their leader...
Eppehimer led the Engineers with 31 points, continuing his torrid scoring pace (he had a 39-point effort earlier in the week). His 9-18 performance (including 4-5 on 3-pointers) provided nearly half of Lehigh's scoring...
...Dillon's son and daughter as his own. The family moved to North Carolina, leaving Dillon's grave to be tended by his father Lawrence, a former mayor of Montrose. But questions remained. There had always been rumors that Scher and Patricia had been in the middle of a torrid love affair before her husband died--a rumor they denied repeatedly. Dillon's father, for one, always wondered about the autopsy report and never believed the death was an accident. Says Bonnie Mead, who was Martin Dillon's secretary: "We don't know why people put blinders on in this...
ECONOMIC BACKDROP This was the decade of Jay Gatsby, Florenz Ziegfeld, the rise of the American middle class and unbounded optimism. Following a postwar depression in 1920-21, the economy bounced back with a vengeance, growing a torrid 30% in the next two years. And money succeeded in holding its purchasing power as inflation averaged a less than 1% in the decade. The boom filled federal coffers. The 1920s was the last decade in this century when the federal budget ran a surplus every year. The national debt shrank from $24 billion to $16 billion. Taxes were reduced...
...series of love affairs. The most important was with Averell Harriman, the top U.S. envoy in Britain, from whom she channeled intelligence information to her father-in-law to help draw the U.S. into the war. When Harriman moved to Moscow two years later as ambassador, she began a torrid romance with cbs broadcaster Edward R. Murrow, the love of her life, who proposed, then changed his mind when his wife gave birth...