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...currently has a 3-4 record, which includes a 9-0 loss to North Carolina. Harvard, with a 2-5 record, lost to UNC last week...
...There is an added uncertainty about the Navy team," he added, "because we don't know if they rested a few days before their last meet (against UNC), or if they swam through that meet and eased up for us this week...
...from Eastern prominence. But Harvard stood up surprisingly well. Playing without Dale Dover for part of the trip the Crimson lost four of five games, but the competition was the stiffest Harvard has ever faced. At Greenshoro, it was third ranked North Carolina. Harvard lost. 92-74, but held UNC's All-American Charlie Scott to less than 20 points...
...lucrative combination of S. & L.s and insurance prompted Justice Department antitrusters to investigate his operations, but the inquiry was soon dropped. "They call Uncle Howard an octopus," said his nephew and business associate, Bill Ahmanson, a few years ago. "But the worst that can be said about Unc is that he lives to build capital and to run his own show...
...different story. From the FBI in Washington came evidence that Helen Kroger was, in fact, Lona Petka of Adams, Mass., and her husband was Morris Cohen, sometime of New York City, who had played guard on Monroe High's championship 1927 football team. Teammates remembered him as "Unc," for his likeness then to Uncle Walt of the Gasoline Alley comic strip. Unc Cohen went on to take a degree at Mississippi State College, later fought with the Loyalists in the Spanish Civil War (his nom de guerre: Israel Altman), hired out as a guard at the Soviet pavilion during...