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Correlating physical types with fatal diseases, the scientists find that 21 percent of deaths were due to blood-clotting causing heart failure. Stocky men with under-par muscularity were the usual victims of coronary thrombosis and cancer. Tuberculosis claimed many tall, muscular men of light build while passing up heavier individuals of greater fleshiness...
Holy Cross took an under-par three minutes to open the scoring. The Crusaders received the opening kickoff, then moved upfield from their own 26 to score in eight plays. Unable to match the Purple's speed, and completely baffied by Charlie Maloy's ball-handling, the Crimson line offered no resistance...
...Hogan, with a blazing final 6-under-par round of 66 for a 72-hole total of 273, the $12,500 top money (golf's biggest prize) in the Tarn O'Shanter Country Club's $50,000 tournament; at Chicago. Tied for eighth place: Lloyd Mangrum, who played his home course under police guard after a threatening telephone call (TIME...
Were gamblers really trying to fix big-time golf as they had fixed big-time basketball? Next day, with a mild case of jitters, Mangrum played under an armed police escort, but blasted a 2-under-par 70 to take $2,250 first prize money (and to become the year's top money winner with $18,948.83). Later, he told newsmen it was not quite a new experience: two years ago, a man he knew (since "sent up the river for dope peddling or something") offered him a share "in cutting up $7,000" if he would finish...
...Stanford; at Seattle. ¶ The Yale crew, the Carnegie Cup, for the first time in twelve years, over Princeton, Cornell and Syracuse; at Ithaca, N.Y. CJ The Harvard crew, the Adams Cup, for the tenth straight time, over Navy and Pennsylvania; at Philadelphia. ¶ Sam Snead, with a 17-under-par 263, the $10,000 Greenbrier Open Golf tournament; at White Sulphur Springs, W. Va. ¶ Russia's Mikhail Botvinriik, the world -. chess championship he has held since 1948, after a 24-game draw with Russia's David Bronstein; in Moscow. ¶ The Rokeby Stable's County...